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The Franke-Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (FGKLS) Equation for Two-Dimensional Systems

Quantum Physics 2022-04-19 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Mathematical Physics math.MP

Abstract

Open quantum systems are, in general, described by a density matrix that is evolving under transformations belonging to a dynamical semigroup. They can obey the Franke-Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (FGKLS) equation. We exhaustively study the case of a Hilbert space of dimension 22. First, we find final fixed states (called pointers) of an evolution of an open system, and we then obtain a general solution to the FGKLS equation and confirm that it converges to a pointer. After this, we check that the solution has physical meaning, i.e., it is Hermitian, positive and has trace equal to 11, and find a moment of time starting from which the FGKLS equation can be used - the range of applicability of the semigroup symmetry. Next, we study the behavior of a solution for a weak interaction with an environment and make a distinction between interacting and non-interacting cases. Finally, we prove that there cannot exist oscillating solutions to the FGKLS equation, which would resemble the behavior of a closed quantum system.

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@article{arxiv.2204.07734,
  title  = {The Franke-Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (FGKLS) Equation for Two-Dimensional Systems},
  author = {Alexander A. Andrianov and Mikhail V. Ioffe and Ekaterina A. Izotova and Oleg O. Novikov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.07734},
  year   = {2022}
}

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