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arXiv:quant-ph/0405140 · Physical Review A

Lindblad- and non-Lindblad-type dynamics of a quantum Brownian particle

Sabrina Maniscalco, Jyrki Piilo, F. Intravaia, Francesco Petruccione, ANTONINO MESSINA

Published Sep 29, 2004• 94 citations
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Abstract

The dynamics of a typical open quantum system, namely a quantum Brownian particle in a harmonic potential, is studied focusing on its non-Markovian regime. Both an analytic approach and a stochastic wave-function approach are used to describe the exact time evolution of the system. The border between two very different dynamical regimes, the Lindblad and non-Lindblad regimes, is identified and the relevant physical variables governing the passage from one regime to the other are singled out. The non-Markovian short-time dynamics is studied in detail by looking at the mean energy, the squeezing, the Mandel parameter, and the Wigner function of the system.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.70.032113

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