An ETH-ansatz-based environmental-branch approach to master equation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09007v1
• Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:38:50 GMT
• Title: An ETH-ansatz-based environmental-branch approach to master equation
• Authors: Wen-ge Wang,
• Abstract summary: Derivation of the master equation is based on piecewise usage of a second-order expansion of a formal expression.<n>The total system undergoes Schrdinger evolution, under an initial condition in which the environmental branches possess no correlation with the interaction Hamiltonian.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this paper, a method for deriving master equation is developed for a generic small quantum system, which is locally coupled to an environment as a many-body quantum chaotic system that satisfies the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis ansatz, resorting to neither the Born approximation nor the Markov approximation. The total system undergoes Schrödinger evolution, under an initial condition in which the environmental branches possess no correlation with the interaction Hamiltonian. Derivation of the master equation is based on piecewise usage of a second-order expansion of a formal expression, which is derived for the evolution of the environmental branches. Approximations used in the derivation are mainly based on dynamic properties of the environment.

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