Heavy quark master equations in the Lindblad form at high temperatures

Yukinao Akamatsu
Phys. Rev. D 91, 056002 – Published 3 March 2015

Abstract

We derive the quantum master equations for heavy quark systems in a high-temperature quark-gluon plasma in the Lindblad form. The master equations are derived in the influence functional formalism for open quantum systems in perturbation theory. These master equations have a wide range of applications, such as decoherence of a heavy quarkonium and Langevin dynamics of a heavy quark in the quark-gluon plasma. We also show the equivalence between the quarkonium master equations in the recoilless limit and the Schrödinger equations with stochastic potential.

  • Received 3 April 2014

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.91.056002

© 2015 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

Yukinao Akamatsu

  • Kobayashi-Maskawa Institute for the Origin of Particles and the Universe (KMI), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Aichi 464-8602, Japan

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Vol. 91, Iss. 5 — 1 March 2015

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