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Article

Stochastic Schrödinger Equations and Conditional States: A General Non-Markovian Quantum Electron Transport Simulator for THz Electronics

by
Devashish Pandey
1,
Enrique Colomés
1,
Guillermo Albareda
1,2,3,* and
Xavier Oriols
1,*
1
Departament d’Enginyeria Electrònica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain
2
Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, 22761 Hamburg, Germany
3
Institute of Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Universitat de Barcelona, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
*
Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Entropy 2019, 21(12), 1148; https://doi.org/10.3390/e21121148
Submission received: 25 October 2019 / Revised: 20 November 2019 / Accepted: 21 November 2019 / Published: 25 November 2019
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Quantum Transport in Mesoscopic Systems)
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A prominent tool to study the dynamics of open quantum systems is the reduced density matrix. Yet, approaching open quantum systems by means of state vectors has well known computational advantages. In this respect, the physical meaning of the so-called conditional states in Markovian and non-Markovian scenarios has been a topic of recent debate in the construction of stochastic Schrödinger equations. We shed light on this discussion by acknowledging the Bohmian conditional wavefunction (linked to the corresponding Bohmian trajectory) as the proper mathematical object to represent, in terms of state vectors, an arbitrary subset of degrees of freedom. As an example of the practical utility of these states, we present a time-dependent quantum Monte Carlo algorithm to describe electron transport in open quantum systems under general (Markovian or non-Markovian) conditions. By making the most of trajectory-based and wavefunction methods, the resulting simulation technique extends to the quantum regime, the computational capabilities that the Monte Carlo solution of the Boltzmann transport equation offers for semi-classical electron devices.
Keywords: conditional states; conditional wavefunction; Markovian and Non-Markovian dynamics; stochastic Schrödinger equation; quantum electron transport conditional states; conditional wavefunction; Markovian and Non-Markovian dynamics; stochastic Schrödinger equation; quantum electron transport

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Pandey, D.; Colomés, E.; Albareda, G.; Oriols, X. Stochastic Schrödinger Equations and Conditional States: A General Non-Markovian Quantum Electron Transport Simulator for THz Electronics. Entropy 2019, 21, 1148. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21121148

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Pandey D, Colomés E, Albareda G, Oriols X. Stochastic Schrödinger Equations and Conditional States: A General Non-Markovian Quantum Electron Transport Simulator for THz Electronics. Entropy. 2019; 21(12):1148. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21121148

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Pandey, Devashish, Enrique Colomés, Guillermo Albareda, and Xavier Oriols. 2019. "Stochastic Schrödinger Equations and Conditional States: A General Non-Markovian Quantum Electron Transport Simulator for THz Electronics" Entropy 21, no. 12: 1148. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21121148

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Pandey, D., Colomés, E., Albareda, G., & Oriols, X. (2019). Stochastic Schrödinger Equations and Conditional States: A General Non-Markovian Quantum Electron Transport Simulator for THz Electronics. Entropy, 21(12), 1148. https://doi.org/10.3390/e21121148

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