Natural correlation between a system and a thermal reservoir
arXiv:1310.5453 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.89.040101
Abstract
Non-Markovian corrections to the Markovian quantum master equation of an open quantum system are investigated up to the second order of the interaction between the system of interest and a thermal reservoir. The concept of "natural correlation" is discussed. When the system is naturally correlated with a thermal reservoir, the time evolution of the reduced density matrix looks Markovian even in a short-time regime. If the total system was initially in an "unnatural" state, the natural correlation is established during the time evolution, and after that the time evolution becomes Markovian in a long-time regime. It is also shown that for a certain set of reduced density matrices, the naturally correlated state does not exist. If the initial reduced density matrix has no naturally correlated state, the time evolution is inevitably non-Markovian in a short-time regime.
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