The Accuracy of Perturbative Master Equations

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2010-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/1010.5025v3

Phys. Rev. E 83, 031117 (2011)

Physics

Quantum Physics

6 pages, 0 figures; v2 updated references; v3 updated references, extension to full-time and nonlocal regimes

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevE.83.031117

We consider open quantum systems with dynamics described by master equations that have perturbative expansions in the system-environment interaction. We show that, contrary to intuition, full-time solutions of order-2n accuracy require an order-(2n+2) master equation. We give two examples of such inaccuracies in the solutions to an order-2n master equation: order-2n inaccuracies in the steady state of the system and order-2n positivity violations, and we show how these arise in a specific example for which exact solutions are available. This result has a wide-ranging impact on the validity of coupling (or friction) sensitive results derived from second-order convolutionless, Nakajima-Zwanzig, Redfield, and Born-Markov master equations.

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