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Decoherence by a non-Markovian and non-Gaussian Environment

This thesis studies a spin-star model and an open spin-star model. The spin-star model is exactly solvable, and the approximation methods can be applied and compared with the exact solution. As this model is shown to be non-Gaussian and non-Markovian, Born-Markovian approximation is not valid. The comparison of Nakajima-Zwanzig and time-convolutionless methods show that the performances of those two techniques depend on the specific property of the model. The open spin-star model is not exactly solvable and the analytical solution under Gaussian approximation is obtained.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:WATERLOO/oai:uwspace.uwaterloo.ca:10012/7294
Date January 2012
CreatorsQiao, Wenling
Source SetsUniversity of Waterloo Electronic Theses Repository
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation

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