Open system dynamics in interacting quantum field theories

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18907v1
• Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2024 18:01:17 GMT
• Title: Open system dynamics in interacting quantum field theories
• Authors: Brenden Bowen, Nishant Agarwal, Archana Kamal,
• Abstract summary: A quantum system that interacts with an environment undergoes non-unitary evolution described by a non-Markovian or Markovian master equation. We show how the equations simplify under various approximations including the Markovian limit. We argue that the Redfield equation-based solution provides a perturbative resummation to the standard second order Dyson series result.
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• Abstract: A quantum system that interacts with an environment generally undergoes non-unitary evolution described by a non-Markovian or Markovian master equation. In this paper, we construct the non-Markovian Redfield master equation for a quantum scalar field that interacts with a second field through a bilinear or nonlinear interaction on a Minkowski background. We use the resulting master equation to set up coupled differential equations that can be solved to obtain the equal-time two-point function of the system field. We show how the equations simplify under various approximations including the Markovian limit, and argue that the Redfield equation-based solution provides a perturbative resummation to the standard second order Dyson series result. For the bilinear interaction, we explicitly show that the Redfield solution is closer to the exact solution compared to the perturbation theory-based one. Further, the environment correlation function is oscillatory and non-decaying in this case, making the Markovian master equation a poor approximation. For the nonlinear interaction, on the other hand, the environment correlation function is sharply peaked and the Redfield solution matches that obtained using a Markovian master equation in the late-time limit.

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