The structures of state space concerning quantum dynamical semigroups

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Abstract: Each semigroup describing the time evolution of an open quantum system on a finite dimensional Hilbert space is related to a special structure of this space. It is shown how the space can be decomposed into subspaces: One is related to decay, orthogonal subspaces support the stationary states. Specialities where the complete positivity of evolutions is actually needed for analysis, mainly for evolution of coherence, are highlighted. Decompositions are done the same way for evolutions in discrete as in continuous time, but evolutions may show differences, only for discrete semigroups there may appear cases of sudden decay and of perpetual oscillation. Concluding the analysis we identify the relation of the state space structure to the processes of Decay, Decoherence, Dissipation and Dephasing.


Let \(T\) be a Markov semigroup acting on \(B(H)\), where \(H\) is the system Hilbert space. Then \(H\) can be orthogonally decomposed into subspaces according to asymptotic properties the corresponding vector states fulfill under \(T\).NEWLINENEWLINEThe authors concentrate on finite-dimensional \(H\) and on the case of a discrete-time semigroup \(T\). They derive a number of results and illustrate, particularly, cases that exist only in the discrete-time case.



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