Given a Hamiltonian $H$, how can I relate the collapse operator for the Lindblad equation to a given environmental effect? Also, how can I relate the constant $\gamma$ in front of the sum of the collapse operators to the full Hamiltonian?
For reference, the lindblad equation is:
$$\dot \rho = -i[H, \rho] + \left( \gamma \sum A \rho A^\dagger - \frac{1}{2} A^\dagger A \rho - \frac{1}{2} \rho A^\dagger A \right) \, .$$
When I say collapse operator, I am referring to the operator $A$.
This post imported from StackExchange Physics at 2015-08-16 03:57 (UTC), posted by SE-user TanMath