Quantum thermal absorption machines: refrigerators, engines and clocks

MT Mitchison - Contemporary Physics, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The inexorable miniaturisation of technologies, the relentless drive to improve efficiency and
the enticing prospect of boosting performance through quantum effects are all compelling …

Reconciliation of quantum local master equations with thermodynamics

G De Chiara, G Landi, A Hewgill, B Reid… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of open quantum systems often relies on approximate master equations derived
under the assumptions of weak coupling to the environment. However when the system is …

Irreversible quantum evolution with quadratic generator

AE Teretenkov - … Analysis, Quantum Probability and Related Topics, 2019 - World Scientific
We review results on GKSL-type equations with multi-modal generators which are quadratic
in bosonic or fermionic creation and annihilation operators. General forms of such equations …

Markovian master equations for quantum thermal machines: local versus global approach

PP Hofer, M Perarnau-Llobet, LDM Miranda… - New Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The study of quantum thermal machines, and more generally of open quantum systems,
often relies on master equations. Two approaches are mainly followed. On the one hand …

Local versus global master equation with common and separate baths: superiority of the global approach in partial secular approximation

M Cattaneo, GL Giorgi, S Maniscalco… - New Journal of …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Open systems of coupled qubits are ubiquitous in quantum physics. Finding a suitable
master equation to describe their dynamics is therefore a crucial task that must be …

Testing the validity of the 'local'and 'global'GKLS master equations on an exactly solvable model

JO González, LA Correa, G Nocerino… - Open Systems & …, 2017 - World Scientific
When deriving a master equation for a multipartite weakly-interacting open quantum
systems, dissipation is often addressed locally on each component, ie ignoring the coherent …

Unified Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan quantum master equation beyond the secular approximation

A Trushechkin - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Derivation of a quantum master equation for a system weakly coupled to a bath which takes
into account nonsecular effects, but nevertheless has the mathematically correct Gorini …

Fundamental limitations in Lindblad descriptions of systems weakly coupled to baths

D Tupkary, A Dhar, M Kulkarni, A Purkayastha - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
It is very common in the literature to write a Markovian quantum master equation in Lindblad
form to describe a system with multiple degrees of freedom and weakly connected to …

Non-additive dissipation in open quantum networks out of equilibrium

MT Mitchison, MB Plenio - New Journal of Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We theoretically study a simple non-equilibrium quantum network whose dynamics can be
expressed and exactly solved in terms of a time-local master equation. Specifically, we …

A thermodynamically consistent Markovian master equation beyond the secular approximation

PP Potts, AAS Kalaee, A Wacker - New Journal of Physics, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Markovian master equations provide a versatile tool for describing open quantum systems
when memory effects of the environment may be neglected. As these equations are of an …