Fluctuations of quantum currents and unravelings of master equations

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DOI10.1007/S10955-008-9500-8zbMATH Open1144.82034arXivcond-mat/0703594OpenAlexW3105800920MaRDI QIDQ925240FDOQ925240


Authors: Jan Dereziński, W. De Roeck, Christian Maes Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 3 June 2008

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The very notion of a current fluctuation is problematic in the quantum context. We study that problem in the context of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, both in a microscopic setup and in a Markovian model. Our answer is based on a rigorous result that relates the weak coupling limit of fluctuations of reservoir observables under a global unitary evolution with the statistics of the so-called quantum trajectories. These quantum trajectories are frequently considered in the context of quantum optics, but they remain useful for more general nonequilibrium systems. In contrast with the approaches found in the literature, we do not assume that the system is continuously monitored. Instead, our starting point is a relatively realistic unitary dynamics of the full system.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0703594




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