Dynamics of Open Quantum Systems I, Oscillation and Decay
arXiv:2105.00015 · doi:10.22331/q-2022-01-03-615
Abstract
We develop a framework to analyze the dynamics of a finite-dimensional quantum system in contact with a reservoir . The full, interacting dynamics is unitary. The reservoir has a stationary state but otherwise dissipative dynamics. We identify a main part of the full dynamics, which approximates it for small values of the coupling constant, uniformly for all times . The main part consists of explicit oscillating and decaying parts. We show that the reduced system evolution is Markovian for all times. The technical novelty is a detailed analysis of the link between the dynamics and the spectral properties of the generator of the dynamics, based on Mourre theory. We allow for interactions with little regularity, meaning that the decay of the reservoir correlation function only needs to be polynomial in time, improving on the previously required exponential decay. In this work we distill the structural and technical ingredients causing the characteristic features of oscillation and decay of the dynamics. In the companion paper [27] we apply the formalism to the concrete case of an -level system linearly coupled to a spatially infinitely extended thermal bath of non-interacting Bosons.
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