Nonequilibrium steady state in open quantum systems: Influence action, stochastic equation and power balance

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Title:	Nonequilibrium steady state in open quantum systems: Influence action, stochastic equation and power balance
Authors:	項人宗;Hsiang, J.-T.;Hu, B.L.
Contributors:	理學院物理學系
Keywords:	ACTION INTEGRAL;ANHARMONIC OSCILLATORS;CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;DENSITY;DENSITY MATRIX;Energy flow relation;EXPECTATION VALUE;FIELD THEORIES;Harmonic analysis;HARMONIC OSCILLATORS;Influence functional formalism;MANY-BODY PROBLEM;Nonequilibrium steady state;Normal distribution;Open quantum system;OSCILLATORS;QUANTUM OPERATORS;Quantum physics;QUANTUM SYSTEMS;Quantum transport;STATISTICAL MECHANICS;STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS;Stochastic density matrix;Stochastic models;STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;THERMODYNAMICS
Date:	2015-11-01
Issue Date:	2026-04-23 12:31:07 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	New York: Elsevier Inc
Abstract:	摘要： The existence and uniqueness of a steady state for nonequilibrium systems (NESS) is a fundamental subject and a main theme of research in statistical mechanics for decades. For Gaussian systems, such as a chain of classical harmonic oscillators connected at each end to a heat bath, and for classical anharmonic oscillators under specified conditions, definitive answers exist in the form of proven theorems. Answering this question for quantum many-body systems poses a challenge for the present. In this work we address this issue by deriving the stochastic equations for the reduced system with self-consistent backaction from the two baths, calculating the energy flow from one bath to the chain to the other bath, and exhibiting a power balance relation in the total (chain + baths) system which testifies to the existence of a NESS in this system at late times. Its insensitivity to the initial conditions of the chain corroborates to its uniqueness. The functional method we adopt here entails the use of the influence functional, the coarse-grained and stochastic effective actions, from which one can derive the stochastic equations and calculate the average values of physical variables in open quantum systems. This involves both taking the expectation values of quantum operators of the system and the distributional averages of stochastic variables stemming from the coarse-grained environment. This method though formal in appearance is compact and complete. It can also easily accommodate perturbative techniques and diagrammatic methods from field theory. Taken all together it provides a solid platform for carrying out systematic investigations into the nonequilibrium dynamics of open quantum systems and quantum thermodynamics. •Nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) for interacting quantum many-body systems.•Derivation of stochastic equations for quantum oscillator chain with two heat baths.•Explicit calculation of the energy flow from one bath to the chain to the other bath.•Power balance relation shows the existence of NESS insensitive to initial conditions.•Functional method as a viable platform for issues in quantum thermodynamics. 出版者： New York: Elsevier Inc 出版日期： 2015-11-01 出處： Annals of physics, 2015-11, Vol.362 (Complete), p.139-169 資源來源： Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals: Bodleian Libraries collection 版權： 2015 Elsevier Inc. 識別號： ISSN: 0003-4916 識別號： EISSN: 1096-035X 識別號： DOI: 10.1016/j.aop.2015.07.009 識別號： CODEN: APNYA6
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