Non-equilibrium stationary states from the equation of motion of open systems

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/12/8/083042MaRDI QIDQ5135192zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors J. S. Wu

Publication date 19 November 2020

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1004.0740

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: A BBGKY-like hierarchy is derived from the non-equilibrium Redfield equation. Two further approximations are introduced and each can be used to truncate and solve the hierarchy. In the first approximation such a truncation is performed by replacing two-particle Green's functions (GFs) in the hierarchy by their values at equilibrium. The second method is developed based on the cluster expansion, which constructs two-particle GFs from one-particle GFs and neglects the correlation part. A non-equilibrium Wick's Theorem is proved to provide a basis for this non-equilibrium cluster expansion. Using those two approximations, our method of solving the Redfield equation, for instance, of an N-site chain of interacting spinless fermions, involves an eigenvalue problem with dimension $2^N$ and a linear system with dimension $N^2$ in the first case, and a nonlinear equation with dimension $N^2$ in the second case, which can be solved iteratively via a sequence of $N^2$ linear systems. Other currently available direct methods correspond to a linear system or an eigenvalue system with dimension $4^N$ plus an eigenvalue system with dimension $2^N$. As a test of the methods, for small systems with size N=4, results are found to be consistent with results made available by other direct methods. Although not discussed here, extending both methods to their next levels is straightforward. This indicates a promising potential for this BBGKY-like approach of non-equilibrium kinetic equations.

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