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For quantum transport through mesoscopic system, a quantum master equation approach is developed in terms of compact expressions for the transport current and the reduced density matrix of the system. The present work is an extension of…

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We present a systematic procedure to derive a quantum master equation for thermal relaxation in real scalar field theory, expanding on the method proposed in [Koide and Nicacio, Phys. Lett. A494, 129277 (2024)]. We begin by introducing a…

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A quantum microcanonical postulate is proposed as a basis for the equilibrium properties of small quantum systems. Expressions for the corresponding density of states are derived, and are used to establish the existence of phase transitions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-13 Dorje C. Brody , Daniel W. Hook , Lane P. Hughston

For the purpose of understanding the quantum behavior such as quantum decoherence, fluctuations, dissipation, entanglement and teleportation of a mesoscopic or macroscopic object interacting with a general environment, we derive here a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-09 Chung-Hsien Chou , B. L. Hu , Ting Yu

Understanding nonsecular dynamics in open quantum systems is addressed here, with emphasis on systems with large numbers of Bohr frequencies, zero temperature, and fast driving. We employ the master equation, which replaces arithmetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Dragomir Davidovic

An open quantum system in contact with an infinite bath approaches equilibrium, while the state of the bath remains unchanged. If the bath is finite, the open system still relaxes to equilibrium, but it induces a dynamical evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-20 Andreu Riera-Campeny , Anna Sanpera , Philipp Strasberg

A new microcanonical equilibrium state is introduced for quantum systems with finite-dimensional state spaces. Equilibrium is characterised by a uniform distribution on a level surface of the expectation value of the Hamiltonian. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-25 Dorje C. Brody , Daniel W. Hook , Lane P. Hughston

We propose a nonperturbative quantum dissipation theory, in term of hierarchical quantum master equation. It may be used with a great degree of confidence to various dynamics systems in condensed phases. The theoretical development is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rui-Xue Xu , Bao-Ling Tian , Jian Xu , Qiang Shi , YiJing Yan

A fully quantum multiphonon up-pumping model is proposed to characterize coherent energy transfer in energetic materials (EMs) subjected to external shock. After eliminating the degrees of freedom of the phonon bath within a mean-field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Jiong Cheng , Yanqiang Yang , Wenlin Li , Xun Li

A quantum fluctuation theorem for a driven quantum subsystem interacting with its environment is derived based solely on the assumption that its reduced density matrix obeys a closed evolution equation i.e. a quantum master equation (QME).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Shaul Mukamel

Starting from a microscopic description of weak system-bath interactions, we derive from first principles a quantum master equation that does not rely on the well-known rotating wave approximation. This includes generic many-body systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Matteo Scandi , Álvaro M. Alhambra

We introduce a systematic approximation for an efficient evaluation of Born--Markov master equations for steady state transport studies in open quantum systems out of equilibrium: the energy resolved master equation approach. The master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 Gerhard Dorn , Enrico Arrigoni , Wolfgang von der Linden

A quantum system that interacts with an environment generally undergoes nonunitary evolution described by a non-Markovian or Markovian master equation. In this paper, we construct the non-Markovian Redfield master equation for a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Brenden Bowen , Nishant Agarwal , Archana Kamal

A mean field argument is used to derive a master equation for systems simultaneously interacting with external fields and coupled environmental degrees of freedom. We prove that this master equation preserves positivity of the reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joshua Wilkie , Murat Cetinbas

We consider a fermionic quantum system exchanging particles with an environment at a fixed temperature and study its reduced evolution by means of a Redfield-I equation with time-dependent (non-Markovian) coefficients. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Lukas Litzba , Eric Kleinherbers , Jürgen König , Ralf Schützhold , Nikodem Szpak

Starting from a microscopic system-baths description, we derive the general conditions for a time-local quantum master equation (QME) to satisfy the first and second law of thermodynamics at the fluctuating level. Using counting statistics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-28 Ariane Soret , Vasco Cavina , Massimiliano Esposito

We re-interprete the microcanonical conditions in the quantum domain as constraints for the interaction of the "gas-subsystem" under consideration and its environment ("container"). The time-average of a purity-measure is found to equal the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jochen Gemmer , Alexander Otte , Guenter Mahler

We consider an isolated, macroscopic quantum system. Let H be a micro-canonical "energy shell," i.e., a subspace of the system's Hilbert space spanned by the (finitely) many energy eigenstates with energies between E and E + delta E. The…

We present here a brief overview of our work in developing a convolutionless quantum master equation approach suitable for mesoscopic sized systems. Our final equation can be used in the regimes where the golden rule approach is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric R. Bittner , Andrey Pereverzev

Nonequilibrium energy transport serves as one of fundamental problems in quantum thermodynamics and quantum technologies. Driven quantum master equation in the dressed picture provides an efficient way of investigating nonequilibrium energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Junran Kong , Yuwei Lu , Huan Liu , Liwei Duan , Chen Wang