Stochastic wave-function unraveling of the generalized Lindblad master equation
Mervlyn Moodley, Francesco Petruccione · Physical Review A · 2009
Recently a generalized master equation was derived that extends the Lindblad theory to highly non-Markovian quantum processes [H.-P. Breuer, Phys. Rev. A 75, 022103 (2007)]. We perform a stochastic unraveling of this master equation by considering $n$ random state vectors that satisfy the corresponding stochastic differential equation for a piecewise deterministic process. As an application we consider a two-state system randomly coupled to an environment consisting of two energy bands with finite number of levels. Our numerical results are compared to results obtained from the time-convolutionless projection operator method using correlated projection superoperators and the exact solution of the Schr\"odinger equation for this system.