Conservation law of operator current in open quantum systems

Details Conservation law of operator current in open quantum systems Conservation law of operator current in open quantum systems

2011-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/1110.5427v5

Phys. Rev. A 85, 032110 (2012)

Physics

Quantum Physics

5 pages, final version

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevA.85.032110

We derive a fundamental conservation law of operator current for master equations describing reduced quantum systems. If this law is broken, the temporal integral of the current operator of an arbitrary system observable does not yield in general the change of that observable in the evolution. We study Lindblad-type master equations as examples and prove that the application of the secular approximation during their derivation results in a violation of the conservation law. We show that generally any violation of the law leads to artificial corrections to the complete quantum dynamics, thus questioning the accuracy of the particular master equation.

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