  In a recent comment, Lee and Yeo show that the Gibbs state is not generically
an exact steady state of the Universal Lindblad Equation (ULE) that we
developed in Phys. Rev. B 102, 115109 (2020). This non-controversial
observation is precisely as expected for open quantum systems with finite
system-bath coupling, where transition rates may be comparable to or larger
than the level spacing of the system, and we made no claim to the contrary in
our paper. The comment by Lee and Yeo hence highlights that the ULE captures
contributions to the steady state due to finite system-bath coupling that are
beyond the reach of master equations that rely on rotating wave approximations.
In this response we further clarify the nature of our analytical and numerical
results.

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