The application of methods of time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to systems of qubits provided the interesting possibility of simulating an assigned Hamiltonian evolution by means of an auxiliary Hamiltonian having different two-qubit interactions and hence a possibly simpler wave function evolution. In this note we extend these methods to some instances of Lindblad evolution of a spin chain.
@article{arxiv.1112.5731,
title = {Time-dependent density functional theory for open spin chains},
author = {Diego de Falco and Dario Tamascelli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5731},
year = {2012}
}