Energy transfer in open quantum systems weakly coupled with two reservoirs

Franco Fagnola; Damiano Poletti; Emanuela Sasso

doi:10.4067/S0719-06462021000100121

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4067/S0719-06462021000100121

Abstract

We show that the energy transfer through an open quantum system with non-degenerate Hamiltonian weakly coupled with two reservoirs in equilibrium is approximately proportional to the difference of their temperatures unless both temperatures are small.

Keywords

weak-coupling , quantum Markov semigroup , quantum transport , energy current

Franco Fagnola Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy.
Damiano Poletti Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy.
Emanuela Sasso Dipartimento di Matematica, UniversitÃ di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 35, I - 16146 Genova, Italy.

Pages: 121–144
Date Published: 2021-04-14
Vol. 23 No. 1 (2021)

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