Fundamental limitations in Lindblad descriptions of systems weakly coupled to baths

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2105.12091v4
• Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 16:23:35 GMT
• Title: Fundamental limitations in Lindblad descriptions of systems weakly coupled to baths
• Authors: Devashish Tupkary, Abhishek Dhar, Manas Kulkarni, Archak Purkayastha
• Abstract summary: We write down a Markovian quantum master equation in Lindblad form to describe a system with multiple degrees of freedom. We argue that one or more of these conditions will generically be violated in all the weak system-bath-coupling Lindblad descriptions.
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• Abstract: It is very common in the literature to write down a Markovian quantum master equation in Lindblad form to describe a system with multiple degrees of freedom and weakly connected to multiple thermal baths which can, in general, be at different temperatures and chemical potentials. However, the microscopically derived quantum master equation up to leading order in system-bath coupling is of the so-called Redfield form which is known to not preserve complete positivity in most cases. Additional approximations to the Redfield equation are required to obtain a Lindblad form. We lay down some fundamental requirements for any further approximations to Redfield equation, which, if violated, leads to physical inconsistencies like inaccuracies in the leading order populations and coherences in the energy eigenbasis, violation of thermalization, violation of local conservation laws at the non-equilibrium steady state (NESS). We argue that one or more of these conditions will generically be violated in all the weak system-bath-coupling Lindblad descriptions existing in literature to our knowledge. As an example, we study the recently derived Universal Lindblad Equation (ULE) and use these conditions to show violation of local conservation laws due to inaccurate coherences but accurate populations in energy eigenbasis. Finally, we exemplify our analytical results numerically in an interacting open quantum spin system.

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