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Nonequilibrium quantum dynamics can give rise to the emergence of novel steady states. We propose a scheme for driving an initially uncorrelated thermal state to generate customized correlation functions by determining and reverse…
The Born-Markov approximation is widely used to study dynamics of open quantum systems coupled to external baths. Using Keldysh formalism, we show that the dynamics of a system of bosons (fermions) linearly coupled to non-interacting…
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