Entropy production and detailed balance for a class of quantum Markov semigroups

Abstract

We give an explicit entropy production formula for a class of quantum Markov semigroups, arising in the weak coupling limit of a system coupled with reservoirs, whose generators $\mathcal{L}$ are sums of other generators $\mathcal{L}_\omega$ associated with positive Bohr frequencies $\omega$ of the system. As a consequence, we show that any such semigroup satisfies the quantum detailed balance condition with respect to an invariant state if and only if all semigroups generated by each $\mathcal{L}_\omega$ so do with respect to the same invariant state.