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Density matrices in quantum field theory: Non-Markovianity, path integrals and master equations

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.08567v1
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 15:56:03 GMT
Title: Density matrices in quantum field theory: Non-Markovianity, path integrals and master equations
Authors: Christian Käding, Mario Pitschmann,
Abstract summary: Density matrices are powerful mathematical tools for the description of closed and open quantum systems.<n>We derive expressions for density matrix elements of closed and open systems.<n>We show how the resulting expressions for open systems can be used to obtain quantum master equations.
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License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: Density matrices are powerful mathematical tools for the description of closed and open quantum systems. Recently, methods for the direct computation of density matrix elements in scalar quantum field theory were developed based on thermo field dynamics (TFD) and the Schwinger-Keldysh formalism. In this article, we provide a more detailed discussion of these methods and derive expressions for density matrix elements of closed and open systems. At first, we look at closed systems by discussing general solutions to the Schr\"odinger-like form of the quantum Liouville equations in TFD, showing that the dynamical map is indeed divisible, deriving a path integral-based expression for the density matrix elements in Fock space, and explaining why perturbation theory enables us to use the last even in situations where all initial states in Fock space are occupied. Subsequently, we discuss open systems in the same manner after tracing out environmental degrees of freedom from the solutions for closed systems. We find that, even in a general basis, the dynamical map is not divisible, which renders the dynamics of open systems non-Markovian. Finally, we show how the resulting expressions for open systems can be used to obtain quantum master equations, and comment on the artificiality of time integrals over density matrices that usually appear in many other master equations in the literature but are absent in ours.

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