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Journal of Physics Conference Series

On the Lindblad equation for open quantum systems: Rényi entropy rate and weak invariants

Sumiyoshi Abe

Published May 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

A brief review of two recent topics on the Lindblad equation is presented. One is concerned with time evolution of the quantum Renyi entropy under the equation. The lower bound of the entropy rate is derived in a compact form. The other is about the concept of weak invariants, which generalize the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant and are defined in such a way that they are not constant but their expectation values remain invariant in time. The Lindbladian operator describing the time-dependent damped quantum oscillator is identified, and the corresponding weak invariant is explicitly constructed as an example.

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10.1088/1742-6596/1035/1/012001

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A brief review of two recent topics on the Lindblad equation is presented. One is concerned with time evolution of the quantum Renyi entropy under the equation. The lower bound of the entropy rate is derived in a compact form. The other is about the concept of weak invariants, which generalize the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant and are defined in such a way that they are not constant but their expectation values remain invariant in time. The Lindbladian operator describing the time-dependent damped quantum oscillator is identified, and the corresponding weak invariant is explicitly constructed as an example.
The concept of weak invariant is introduced. Then the weak invariants associated with time-dependent quantum dissipative systems are discussed in the context of master equations of the Lindblad type. In particular, with the help of the su\mathit{su}su(1,1) Lie-algebraic structure, the weak invariant is explicitly constructed for the quantum damped harmonic oscillator with the time-dependent frequency and friction coefficient. This generalizes the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant to the case of nonunitary dynamics in the Markovian approximation.
Weak invariants are time-dependent observables with conserved expectation values. Their fluctuations, however, do not remain constant in time. On the assumption that time evolution of the state of an open quantum system is given in terms of a completely positive map, the fluctuations monotonically grow even if the map is not unital, in contrast to the fact that monotonic increases of both the von Neumann entropy and Rényi entropy require the map to be unital. In this way, the weak invariants describe temporal asymmetry in a manner different from the entropies. A formula is presented for time evolution of the covariance matrix associated with the weak invariants in cases where the system density matrix obeys the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan equation.
For a closed quantum system, a dynamical invariant is defined as an operator whose expectation value is a constant. In this paper, we extend the concept of dynamical invariants from closed systems to open systems. A dynamical equation for invariants (the dynamical invariant condition) is derived for Markovian dynamics. Different from dynamical invariants of closed quantum systems, the time evolution of dynamical invariants of open quantum systems is no longer unitary, and eigenvalues of any invariant are time dependent in general. Since any Hermitian operator which can fulfill the dynamical invariant condition is a dynamical invariant, we construct a type of special dynamical invariant of which a part of the eigenvalues is still constant. The dynamical invariants in the subspace spanned by these eigenstates thus evolve unitarily.
A general comment is made on the existence of various baths in quantum thermodynamics, and a brief explanation is presented about the concept of weak invariants. Then, the isoenergetic process is studied for a spin in a magnetic field that slowly varies in time. In the Markovian approximation, the corresponding Lindbladian operators are constructed without recourse to detailed information about the coupling of the subsystem with the environment called the energy bath. The entropy production rate under the resulting Lindblad equation is shown to be positive. The leading-order expressions of the power output and work done along the isoenergetic process are obtained.