کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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975574 | 933039 | 2012 | 9 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
It is known that one can characterize the decoherence strength of a Markovian environment by the product of its temperature and induced damping, and order the decoherence strength of multiple environments by this quantity. By deriving the non-Markovian dissipator of the completely-positive semi-group theorem for a general system with weak coupling to its environment, we show that for non-Markovian environments there also exists a natural (albeit partial) ordering of environment-induced irreversibility within a perturbative treatment. This measure can be applied to both low-temperature and non-equilibrium environments.
► We characterize the decoherence strength for nonequilibrium environments.
► We calculate the non-Markovian dissipator for weak coupling to an environment.
► We apply this result to the problem of an oscillator coupled to two heat baths.
Journal: Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications - Volume 391, Issue 17, 1 September 2012, Pages 4206–4214