Reduced Dynamical Maps in Finite Temperature Vibronic Coupling Models via Choi Matrices: Numerical Methods and Applications
Abstract
We present a streamlined implementation of a computational framework for constructing and analyzing reduced dynamical maps for complex system--bath models at finite temperature. The methodology is based on three established ingredients of quantum dynamics: the Choi--Jamio{\l}kowski isomorphism for the representation of quantum channels, thermofield (TFD) purification of thermal environments, and tensor-train (TT) propagation of the resulting enlarged pure state. The reduced map is obtained from a single unitary propagation in a thermofield-doubled Hilbert space and represented in matrix form through the Choi--Jamio{\l}kowski isomorphism. The TFD evolution is implemented in the TT representation, enabling efficient propagation of high-dimensional purified thermal states. We illustrate the methodology for exciton transfer in the Fenna--Matthews--Olson complex with site-dependent structured spectral densities represented by discretized bosonic environments. The resulting maps are used to analyze decoherence, relaxation, and finite-memory effects, and to assess the crossover to an effectively time-local description. The proposed approach provides a route to compute reduced propagators and to post-process them into memory kernels, transfer tensors, and effective kinetic rate descriptions for complex molecular systems.
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@article{arxiv.2605.22459,
title = {Reduced Dynamical Maps in Finite Temperature Vibronic Coupling Models via Choi Matrices: Numerical Methods and Applications},
author = {Raffaele Borrelli and Hideaki Takahashi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22459},
year = {2026}
}
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The following article has been accepted by Journal of Chemical Physics. After it is published, it will be found at https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp