Universal Constraint for Relaxation Rates for Quantum Dynamical Semigroup
Universal Constraint for Relaxation Rates for Quantum Dynamical Semigroup
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量子动力学半群弛豫率的通用约束
DOI:
10.1103/physrevlett.127.050401
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发表时间:
2021
影响因子:
8.6
通讯作者:
and Yasuhito Shishido
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作者:
Dariusz Chruscinski;Gen Kimura;Andrzej Kossakowski;and Yasuhito Shishido
A general property of relaxation rates in open quantum systems is discussed. We find an interesting constraint for relaxation rates that universally holds in fairly large classes of quantum dynamics, e.g., weak coupling regimes, as well as for entropy nondecreasing evolutions. We conjecture that this constraint is universal, i.e., it is valid for all quantum dynamical semigroups. The conjecture is supported by numerical analysis. Moreover, we show that the conjectured constraint is tight by providing a concrete model that saturates the bound. This universality marks an essential step toward the physical characterization of complete positivity as the constraint is directly verifiable in experiments. It provides, therefore, a physical manifestation of complete positivity. Our conjecture also has two important implications: it provides (i) a universal constraint for the spectra of quantum channels and (ii) a necessary condition to decide whether a given channel is consistent with Markovian evolution.