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Quantum Brownian motion, described by the Caldeira-Leggett model, brings insights to understand phenomena and essence of quantum thermodynamics, especially the quantum work and heat associated with their classical counterparts. By employing…
Based on a coherent state representation of noise operator and an ensemble averaging procedure we have recently developed [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 65}, 021109 (2002); {\it ibid.} 051106 (2002)] a scheme for quantum Brownian motion to derive the…
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Based on our earlier works [Phys. Rev. B 75, 195127 (2007) & J. Chem. Phys. 128, 234703 (2008)], we propose a formally exact and numerically convenient approach to simulate time-dependent quantum transport from first-principles. The…
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