Energy transfer in open quantum systems weakly coupled with two reservoirs

Franco Fagnola; Damiano Poletti; Emanuela Sasso

doi:10.4067/S0719-06462021000100121

Authors

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.

DOI:

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

Keywords:

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

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.

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