What is it about?
Open quantum physics is an essential theory for describing a realistic system, always coupled to a dissipative environment, as a semiconductor structure recently invented for converting environmental heat into usable energy. This device is described by a quantum master equation for a system of Fermions interacting with an electromagnetic field, with explicit microscopic coefficients depending on interaction matrix elements, densities of the environmental states, and occupation probabilities of these states as functions of temperature. I apply this equation to an open hydrogen atom in a free electromagnetic field, and obtain decay rates in a a very good agreement with experimental data.
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Why is it important?
A synthetic presentation of the essential ideas of quantum mechanics and openness of a quantum system, developed during the long history of this field.
Perspectives
A better description of quantum systems, as superradiant devices and quantum elements for information processing, based on a master equation describing correlated transitions of the system of interest with environmental particles.
Prof. Eliade Stefanescu
Advanced Studies in Physics Center of the Romanian Academy
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This page is a summary of: Open Quantum Physics and Environmental Heat Conversion into Usable Energy, December 2014, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/97816080598671140101.
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