Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5375888 | Chemical Physics | 2008 | 7 Pages |
Abstract
We derive the exact time-evolution for a general quantum system under the influence of a bosonic bath that causes pure phase noise and demonstrate that for a Gaussian initial state of the bath, the exact result can be obtained also within a perturbative time-local master equation approach already in second order of the system-bath coupling strength. We reveal that this equivalence holds if the initial state of the bath can be mapped to a Gaussian phase-space distribution function. Moreover, we discuss the relation to the standard Bloch-Redfield approach.
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Authors
Roland Doll, David Zueco, Martijn Wubs, Sigmund Kohler, Peter Hänggi,