2014/10/01 by Daniel Suess, Walter T. Strunz, Alexander Eisfeld
Physics and Astronomy · #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/s10955-015-1236-7
12 pages
arxiv created 2014/10/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/23
We present novel approaches to the dynamics of an open quantum system coupled linearly to a non-Markovian fermionic or bosonic environment. In the first approach, we obtain a hierarchy of stochastic evolution equations of the diffusion type. For the bosonic case such a hierarchy has been derived and proven suitable for efficient numerical simulations recently [arXiv:1402.4647]. The stochastic fermionic hierarchy derived here contains Grassmannian noise, which makes it difficult to simulate numerically due to its anti-commutative multiplication. Therefore, in our second approach we eliminate the noise by deriving a related hierarchy of density matrices. A similar reformulation of the bosonic hierarchy of pure states to a master equation hierarchy is also presented.