Quantum Stochastic Differential Equation is Unitarily Equivalent to a Symmetric Boundary Value Problem in Fock Space

Abstract

We show a new remarkable connection between the symmetric form of a quantum stochastic differential equation (QSDE) and the strong resolvent limit of the Schrödinger equations in Fock space: the strong resolvent limit is unitarily equivalent to QSDE in the adapted (or Ito) form, and the weak limit is unitarily equivalent to the symmetric (or Stratonovich) form of QSDE. We also prove that QSDE is unitarily equivalent to a symmetric boundary value problem for the Schrödinger equation in Fock space. The boundary condition describes standard jumps in phase and amplitude of components of Fock vectors belonging to the range of the resolvent. The corresponding Markov evolution equation (the Lindblad or Markov master equation) is derived from the boundary value problem for the Schrödinger equation.