摘要
级联运动方程组方法已成为研究量子开放体系性质和动力学的重要方法.本文介绍了该方法的建立与发展,阐述了其在基础理论、数值算法、实际应用等方面的最新进展.级联运动方程具有理论严格性、数值高效性、应用灵活性.它以非微扰的方式揭示了多体相互作用、体系-环境耦合、非马尔可夫记忆效应等的综合影响.最近研究还证明了级联运动方程是描述体系-环境关联动力学的理论.本文继而讨论了级联方程组理论方法在生物体系的光激发能量传递和强关联电子体系中的量子输运等方面的应用.
The hierarchical equations of motion （HEOM） formalism developed recently is becoming an important method for investigating the properties and dynamical processes of quantum open systems. A comprehensive account on its establishment and recent development was given, covering theoretical formulations, numerical algorithm and practical applications. By construction HEOM resolves in a nonperturbative manner the combined effects of many-body interaction, system-environment coupling and non-Markovian memory. While it is mathematically equivalent to an exact path integral formalism, HEOM is also very convenient in computation and versatile in various systems of study. Moreover, it is shown recently that HEOM is actually a correlated system-environment dynamics theory. The practicality of HEOM to address physical and chemical problems was exemplified with examples relevant to quantum dissipation and quantum transport.
基金
国家自然科学基金(21033008)
中国科学院战略先导科技专项B(XDB01020000)资助
关键词
量子耗散
量子输运
开放体系
体系-环境相干
quantum dissipation
quantum transport
open system
system-bath coherence
