Heat Current in Non-Markovian Open Systems

TL;DR

This paper introduces a numerically exact tensor network method to analyze heat current in non-Markovian quantum systems, capturing complex bath-system interactions and steady-state transport.

Contribution

It extends the tensor network approach to nonequilibrium quantum transport, fully incorporating non-Markovian effects for the first time.

Findings

Demonstrates heat flow dynamics in the spin-boson model

Shows establishment of steady heat current between baths

Accurately captures non-Markovian effects in transport

Abstract

We generalize time-evolving matrix product operators method to nonequilibrium quantum transport problems. The nonequilibrium current is obtained via numerical differentiation of the generating functional which is represented as a tensor network. The approach is numerically exact and the non-Markovian effects are fully taken into account. In the transport process, a part of the heat that flows out from a bath flows into the system and other baths, and the rest is stored in the system-bath coupling part. We take the spin-boson model as a demonstration to show the details of this heat flowing and the establishment of a steady current between two baths.