Decoherence strength of multiple non-Markovian environments

作者:Fleming C H*; Hu B L; Roura Albert
来源:Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications , 2012, 391(17): 4206-4214.
DOI:10.1016/j.physa.2012.04.008

摘要

It is known that one can characterize the decoherence strength of a Markovian environment by the product of its temperature and induced damping, and order the decoherence strength of multiple environments by this quantity. By deriving the non-Markovian dissipator of the completely-positive semi-group theorem for a general system with weak coupling to its environment, we show that for non-Markovian environments there also exists a natural (albeit partial) ordering of environment-induced irreversibility within a perturbative treatment. This measure can be applied to both low-temperature and non-equilibrium environments.

  • 出版日期2012-9-1