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Time-energy and time-entropy uncertainty relations in dissipative quantum dynamics

Gian Paolo Beretta

abstract: We derive exact relations and general inequalities that extend the usual time-energy uncertainty relations from the domain of unitary Hamiltonian dynamics to that of dissipative dynamics as described by a broad class of linear and nonlinear evolution equations for the density operator. For non-dissipative dynamics, by using the Schroedinger inequality instead of the Heisenberg-Robertson inequality, we obtain a general exact time-energy uncertainty relation which is sharper than the usual Mandelstam-Tamm-Messiah relation $\tau_F\Delta_H\ge \hbar/2$. For simultaneous unitary/dissipative dynamics, the usual time-energy uncertainty relation is replaced by a less restrictive relation that depends on the characteristic time of dissipation, $\tau$, and the uncertainty associated with the generalized nonequilibrium Massieu-function operator which defines the structure of the dissipative part of the assumed class of evolution equations. Within the steepest-entropy-ascent dissipative quantum dynamics of an isolated system introduced earlier by this author, we obtain the interesting time-energy and time-entropy uncertainty relation $(2\tau_F\Delta_H/ \hbar)^2+ (\tau_F\Delta_S/k_B\tau)^2 \ge 1$. We illustrate this result and various other inequalities by means of numerical simulations.

oai_identifier:
oai:arXiv.org:quant-ph/0511091
categories:
quant-ph
comments:
12 pages + 4 figures, revised, added more sections and numerical illustrations
arxiv_id:
quant-ph/0511091
created:
2005-11-09
updated:
2006-03-29

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