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Random Lindblad equations from complex environments

Adrian A. Budini

abstract: In this paper we demonstrate that Lindblad equations characterized by a random rate variable arise after tracing out a complex structured reservoir. Our results follows from a generalization of the Born-Markov approximation, which relies in the possibility of splitting the complex environment in a direct sum of sub-reservoirs, each one being able to induce by itself a Markovian system evolution. Strong non-Markovian effects, which microscopically originate from the entanglement with the different sub-reservoirs, characterize the average system decay dynamics. As an example, we study the anomalous irreversible behavior of a quantum tunneling system described in an effective two level approximation. Stretched exponential and power law decay behaviors arise from the interplay between the dissipative and unitary hopping dynamics.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0510085
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
11 pages, 4 figures, to be published in PRE
doi:
10.1103/PhysRevE.72.056106
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0510085
journal_ref:
Phys. Rev E 72, 056106 (2005)
created:
2005-10-12

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