Unifying quantum heat transfer in a nonequilibrium spin-boson model with full counting statistics
arXiv:1612.00533 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.95.023610
Abstract
To study the full counting statistics of quantum heat transfer in a driven nonequilibrium spin-boson model, we develop a generalized nonequilibrium polaron-transformed Redfield equation with an auxiliary counting field. This enables us to study the impact of qubit-bath coupling ranging from weak to strong regimes. Without external modulations, we observe maximal values of both steady state heat flux and noise power at moderate coupling regimes, below which we find those two transport quantities are enhanced by the finite qubit energy bias. With external modulations, the geometric-phase-induced heat flux shows monotonic decrease as increasing the qubit-bath coupling at zero qubit energy bias (without bias). While under finite qubit energy bias (with bias), the geometric-phase-induced heat flux exhibits an interesting reversal behavior in strong coupling regime. Our results unify the seemingly contradictory results in weak and strong qubit-bath coupling regimes, and provide detailed dissections for the quantum fluctuation of nonequilibrium heat transfer.
10 pages,5 figures
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