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arXiv:2101.11955 · Communications in Theoretical Physics

On a tilted Liouville-master equation of open quantum systems

Fei Liu

Published Jun 21, 2021• 3 citations
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Abstract

Abstract A tilted Liouville-master equation in Hilbert space is presented for Markovian open quantum systems. We demonstrate that it is the unraveling of the tilted quantum master equation. The latter is widely used in the analysis and calculations of stochastic thermodynamic quantities in quantum stochastic thermodynamics.
DOI
10.1088/1572-9494/ac0ce3

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