Towards reconciliation of completely positive open system dynamics with the equilibration postulate

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.00643v1
• Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2022 18:05:07 GMT
• Title: Towards reconciliation of completely positive open system dynamics with the equilibration postulate
• Authors: Marcin {\L}obejko, Marek Winczewski, Gerardo Su\'arez, Robert Alicki, Micha{\l} Horodecki
• Abstract summary: We provide a general form of the proper thermal equilibrium state for an arbitrary open system. We show that the solution coincides with the mean-force Hamiltonian for the Bloch-Redfield equation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Almost every quantum system interacts with a large environment, so the exact quantum mechanical description of its evolution is impossible. One has to resort to approximate description, usually in the form of a master equation. There are at least two basic requirements for such a description: first, it should preserve the positivity of probabilities; second, it should correctly describe the equilibration process for systems coupled to a single thermal bath. Existing two widespread descriptions of evolution fail to satisfy at least one of those conditions. The so-called Davies master equation, while preserving the positivity of probabilities, fails to describe thermalization properly. On the other hand, the Bloch-Redfield master equation violates the first condition, but it correctly describes equilibration, at least for off-diagonal elements for several important scenarios. However, is it possible to have a description of open system dynamics that would share both features? In this paper, we partially resolve this problem in the weak-coupling limit: (i) We provide a general form of the proper thermal equilibrium state (the so-called mean-force state) for an arbitrary open system. (ii) We provide the solution for the steady-state coherences for a whole class of master equations, and in particular, we show that the solution coincides with the mean-force Hamiltonian for the Bloch-Redfield equation. (iii) We consider the cumulant equation, which is explicitly completely positive, and we show that its steady-state coherences are the same as one of the Bloch-Redfield dynamics (and the mean-force state accordingly). (iv) We solve the correction to the diagonal part of the stationary state for a two-level system both for the Bloch-Redfield and cumulant equation, showing that the solution of the cumulant is very close to the mean-force state, whereas the Bloch-Redfield differs significantly.

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