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Hierarchical equations of motion

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The hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) technique derived by Yoshitaka Tanimura and Ryogo Kubo in 1989,[1] is a non-perturbative approach developed to study the evolution of a density matrix of quantum dissipative systems. The method can treat system-bath interaction non-perturbatively as well as non-Markovian noise correlation times without the hindrance of the typical assumptions that conventional Redfield (master) equations suffer from such as the Born, Markovian and rotating-wave approximations. HEOM is applicable even at low temperatures where quantum effects are not negligible.

The hierarchical equation of motion for a system in a harmonic Markovian bath is[2]

Hierarchical equations of motion

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HEOMs are developed to describe the time evolution of the density matrix for an open quantum system. It is a non-perturbative, non-Markovian approach to propagating in time a quantum state. Motivated by the path integral formalism presented by Feynman and Vernon, Tanimura derive the HEOM from a combination of statistical and quantum dynamical techniques.[2][3][4] Using a two level spin-boson system Hamiltonian

Characterising the bath phonons by the spectral density

By writing the density matrix in path integral notation and making use of Feynman–Vernon influence functional, all the bath coordinates in the interaction terms can be grouped into this influence functional which in some specific cases can be calculated in closed form. Assuming a high temperature heat bath with the Drude spectral distribution and taking the time derivative of the path integral form density matrix the equation and writing it in hierarchal form yields

where destroys system excitation and hence can be referred to as the relaxation operator.

The second term in is the temperature correction term with the inverse temperature and the "Hyper-operator" notation is introduced.

As with the Kubo's stochastic Liouville equation in hierarchal form, the counter can go up to infinity which is a problem numerically, however Tanimura and Kubo provide a method by which the infinite hierarchy can be truncated to a finite set of differential equations where is determined by some constraint sensitive to the characteristics of the system i.e. frequency, amplitude of fluctuations, bath coupling etc. The "Terminator" defines the depth of the hierarchy. A simple relation to eliminate the term is found. .[5] With this terminator the hierarchy is closed at the depth of the hierarchy by the final term:

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The statistical nature of the HEOM approach allows information about the bath noise and system response to be encoded into the equation of motion doctoring the infinite energy problem of Kubo's SLE by introducing the relaxation operator ensuring a return to equilibrium.

Computational cost

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When the open quantum system is represented by levels and baths with each bath response function represented by exponentials, a hierarchy with layers will contain:

matrices, each with complex-valued (containing both real and imaginary parts) elements. Therefore, the limiting factor in HEOM calculations is the amount of RAM required, since if one copy of each matrix is stored, the total RAM required would be:

bytes (assuming double-precision).

Implementations

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The HEOM method is implemented in a number of freely available codes. A number of these are at the website of Yoshitaka Tanimura[6] including a version for GPUs [7] which used improvements introduced by David Wilkins and Nike Dattani.[8] The nanoHUB version provides a very flexible implementation.[9] An open source parallel CPU implementation is available from the Schulten group.[10]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Tanimura, Yoshitaka; Kubo, Ryogo (1989), "Time evolution of a quantum system in contact with a nearly Gaussian-Markoffian noise bath", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 58 (1): 101–114, Bibcode:1989JPSJ...58..101T, doi:10.1143/JPSJ.58.101
  2. ^ a b Tanimura, Yoshitaka (1990), "Nonperturbative expansion method for a quantum system coupled to a harmonic-oscillator bath", Phys. Rev. A, 41 (12): 6676–6687, Bibcode:1990PhRvA..41.6676T, doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.41.6676, PMID 9903081
  3. ^ Tanimura, Yoshitaka (2006), "Stochastic Liouville, Langevin, Fokker-Planck, and Master Equation Approaches to Quantum Dissipative Systems", J. Phys. Soc. Jpn., 75 (8): 082001, Bibcode:2006JPSJ...75h2001T, doi:10.1143/JPSJ.75.082001
  4. ^ Tanimura, Yoshitaka (2014), "Reduced hierarchical equations of motion in real and imaginary time: Correlated initial states and thermodynamic quantities", J. Chem. Phys., 141 (4): 044114, arXiv:1407.1811, Bibcode:2014JChPh.141d4114T, doi:10.1063/1.4890441, PMID 25084888, S2CID 15745963
  5. ^ Tanimura, Yoshitaka; Wolynes, Peter (1991), "Quantum and classical Fokker-Planck equations for a Gaussian-Markovian noise bath", Phys. Rev. A, 43 (8): 4131–4142, Bibcode:1991PhRvA..43.4131T, doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.43.4131, PMID 9905511
  6. ^ url=http://theochem.kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/resarch/resarch08.htm
  7. ^ Tsuchimoto, Masashi; Tanimura, Yoshitaka (2015), "Spins Dynamics in a Dissipative Environment: Hierarchal Equations of Motion Approach Using a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU)", Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, 11 (7): 3859–3865, doi:10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00488, PMID 26574467
  8. ^ Wilkins, David; Dattani, Nike (2015). "Why quantum coherence is not important in the Fenna-Matthews-Olsen Complex". Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 11 (7): 3411–9. arXiv:1411.3654. doi:10.1021/ct501066k. PMID 26575775. S2CID 15519516.
  9. ^ Kreisbeck, Christoph; Kramer, Tobias (2017). "Exciton Dynamics Lab for Light-Harvesting Complexes (GPU-HEOM)". doi:10.4231/D3RF5KH7G. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  10. ^ url=https://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/phi/