Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2025 iii Paper 343 1 b Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-25
The exact spectral condition is that be a simple eigenvalue of and that every other eigenvalue satisfy . Then converges for every initial density operator to the unique stationary state satisfying . This is the unique stationary state of a Lindbladian condition; the smallest nonzero value of is the Lindbladian gap.
A standard operator criterion is irreducibility: the only subspaces invariant under , all , and all are the zero and full spaces, equivalently their common commutant consists only of scalar multiples of the identity. With no nonzero imaginary-axis eigenvalues, this makes the semigroup relaxing. The spectral statement is the safest general answer because uniqueness of a fixed point alone does not exclude persistent oscillatory modes.