Non-Markovian Quantum State Diffusion in a Fermionic Bath

Abstract

We present a stochastic approach for the description of the quantum dynamics of open system in a fermionic environment (bath). The full quantum evolution as provided by the Schrodinger equation is reformulated exactly as a probabilistic average over the so-called dressed quantum trajectories.The latter are defined as follows. The fermionic environment can be represented as a fermi sea whose "surface" is covered by the ripples of quantum fluctuations. If we consider these fluctuations in the basis of the particle-hole coherent states, then these fluctuations produce a classical particlehole noise. The probability distribution of this noise is provided by the generalized particle-hole Husimi function of the vacuum. Then we define the dressed quantum trajectory as the evolution of the open system and the bath which is conditioned on a particular particle-hole noise sample.The resulting description resembles the non-Markovian quantum state diffusion for the bosonic bath. Therefore, we expect that our fermionic approach will share its favourable propeties like the possibility to carry out Monte-Carlo simulations of non-Markovian quantum dynamics on long times.