Exact homogeneous master equation for open quantum systems incorporating initial correlations

2016/05/27 by Pei-Yun Yang, Yang, Pei-Yun, Wei-Min Zhang +1
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Quantum and electron transport phenomena #Quantum many-body systems

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1605.08521

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Abstract

We show that the exact master equation incorporating initial correlations for open quantum systems, within the Nakajima-Zwanzig operator-projection method, is a homegenous master equation for the reduced density matrix. We also derive explicitly the exact master equation for a large class of bosonic and fermionic open quantum systems incorporating initial correlations, the resulting master equation is homogenous. We find that the effects of the initial correlations can be fully embedded into the fluctuation dynamics through the exact homogenous master equation. Also a generalized nonequilibrium fluctuation-dissipation theorem incorporating the initial correlations is obtained.

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