Symmetry and block structure of the Liouvillian superoperator in partial secular approximation

Marco Cattaneo*, Gian Luca Giorgi, Sabrina Maniscalco, Roberta Zambrini

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Abstrakti

We address the structure of the Liouvillian superoperator for a broad class of bosonic and fermionic Markovian open systems interacting with stationary environments. We show that the accurate application of the partial secular approximation in the derivation of the Bloch-Redfield master equation naturally induces a symmetry on the superoperator level, which may greatly reduce the complexity of the master equation by decomposing the Liouvillian superoperator into independent blocks. Moreover, we prove that, if the steady state of the system is unique, one single block contains all the information about it, and that this imposes a constraint on the possible steady-state coherences of the unique state, ruling out some of them. To provide some examples, we show how the symmetry appears for two coupled spins interacting with separate baths, as well as for two harmonic oscillators immersed in a common environment. In both cases the standard derivation and solution of the master equation is simplified, as well as the search for the steady state. The block diagonalization does not appear when a local master equation is chosen.

AlkuperäiskieliEnglanti
Artikkeli042108
Sivumäärä15
JulkaisuPhysical Review A
Vuosikerta101
Numero4
DOI - pysyväislinkit
TilaJulkaistu - 13 huhtik. 2020
OKM-julkaisutyyppiA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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