Cubo (Apr 2021)

Energy transfer in open quantum systems weakly coupled with two reservoirs

  • Franco Fagnola,
  • Damiano Poletti,
  • Emanuela Sasso

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4067/S0719-06462021000100121
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 23, no. 1
pp. 121 – 144

Abstract

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We show that the energy transfer through an open quantum system with non-degenerate Hamiltonian weakly coupled with two reservoirs in equilibrium is approximately proportional to the difference of their temperatures unless both temperatures are small.

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