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SUBMITTER: Marcantoni S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5622134 | biostudies-other | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Marcantoni S S Alipour S S Benatti F F Floreanini R R Rezakhani A T AT
Scientific reports 20170929 1
In the weak-coupling limit approach to open quantum systems, the presence of the bath is eliminated and accounted for by a master equation that introduces dissipative contributions to the system reduced dynamics: within this framework, there are no bath entropy contributions to the entropy balance. We show that, as a consequence, the entropy production fails to be positive for a class of physically legitimate, that is completely positive and trace preserving, non-Markovian dynamical maps. Moreov ...[more]