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Entropy production and detailed balance for a class of quantum Markov semigroups

Quantum Physics 2016-03-18 v1

Abstract

We give an explicit entropy production formula for a class of quantum Markov semigroups, arising in the weak coupling limit of a system coupled with reservoirs, whose generators L\mathcal{L} are sums of other generators Lω\mathcal{L}_\omega associated with positive Bohr frequencies ω\omega of the system. As a consequence, we show that any such semigroup satisfies the quantum detailed balance condition with respect to an invariant state if and only if all semigroups generated by each Lω\mathcal{L}_\omega so do with respect to the same invariant state.

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@article{arxiv.1504.06430,
  title  = {Entropy production and detailed balance for a class of quantum Markov semigroups},
  author = {Franco Fagnola and Rolando Rebolledo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.06430},
  year   = {2016}
}