Master equation for quantum Brownian motion derived by stochastic methods

DOI10.1023/A:1012946523088MaRDI QIDQ1597503zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Esteban Calzetta, A. Roura, Enric Verdaguer

Publication date 30 May 2002

Published in International Journal of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/gr-qc/0103037

zbMATH Keywords

master equationsopen quantum systemsquantum Brownian motion

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Interacting random processes; statistical mechanics type models; percolation theory (60K35) Phase-space methods including Wigner distributions, etc. applied to problems in quantum mechanics (81S30) Path integrals in quantum mechanics (81S40) Stochastic methods (Fokker-Planck, Langevin, etc.) applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C31)

Abstract: The master equation for a linear open quantum system in a general environment is derived using a stochastic approach. This is an alternative derivation to that of Hu, Paz and Zhang, which was based on the direct computation of path integrals, or to that of Halliwell and Yu, based on the evolution of the Wigner function for a linear closed quantum system. We first show by using the influence functinal formalism that the reduced Wigner function for the open system coincides with a distribution function resulting from averaging both over the initial conditions and the stochastic source of a formal Langevin equation. The master equation for the reduced Wigner function can then be deduced as a Fokker-Planck equation obtained from the formal Langevin equation.

Review text

The authors derive well-known facts about linear open system and quantum Brownian motion using a stochastic approach based on path integrals and Wigner functions. This approach does not consider the use of quantum stochastic calculus which allows to provide a more natural and direct approach to quantum noises and open quantum systems.

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