Quantum dynamics of a bosonic mode and a two-level system interacting with several reservoirs

Abstract

In the framework of a novel dissipative scheme, we have investigated the quantum dynamics of an oscillating system interacting with two reservoirs with different temperatures trough different time-dependent coupling functions. The reduced density matrix, quantum optical characteristic functions, and (quasi) distribution functions like Husimi, Glauber-Sudarshan and Wigner functions on the phase space of the oscillator are obtained. The problem has been generalized to the case where the oscillator is interacting with n distinctive reservoirs, and a quantum current and an effective reservoir is introduced. Finally, the quantum dynamics of a two-level system interacting with two reservoirs has been investigated, and the exact reduced density matrix is obtained.