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We determine the propagation properties of a quantum particle in a d-dimensional lattice with hopping disorder, delta-correlated in time. The system is delocalized: the averaged transition probability shows a diffusive behavior. Then,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. C. Ferrario , V. G. Benza

Both conservation laws and practical restrictions impose symmetry constraints on the dynamics of open quantum systems. In the case of time-translation symmetry, which arises naturally in many physically relevant scenarios, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Matteo Lostaglio , Kamil Korzekwa , Antony Milne

Dissipation and decoherence, and the evolution from pure to mixed states in quantum physics are handled through master equations for the density matrix. Master equations such as the Lindblad equation preserve the trace of this matrix.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. R. P. Rau , Weichang Zhao

The dynamical behavior of quantum coherence of a displaced squeezed thermal state in contact with an external bath is discussed in the present work. We use a Fano-Anderson type of Hamiltonian to model the environment and solve the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Md. Manirul Ali , R. Chandrashekar , S. S. Naina Mohammed

The most general description of the classical world is in terms of local densities (such as number, momentum, energy), and these typically evolve according to evolution equations of hydrodynamic form. To explain the emergent classicality of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. J. Halliwell

Decoherence and dissipation in quantum systems has been studied extensively in the context of Quantum Brownian Motion. Effective decoherence in coarse grained quantum systems has been a central issue in recent efforts by Zurek and by Hartle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Gallis

We study the behavior of an open quantum system, with an $N$--dimensional space of states, whose density matrix evolves according to a non--unitary map defined in two steps: A unitary step, where the system evolves with an evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Pablo Bianucci , Juan Pablo Paz , Marcos Saraceno

The powerful molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is basically based on a picture that the atoms experience classical-like trajectories under the exertion of classical force field determined by the quantum mechanically solved electronic…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Wei Feng , Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Weihai Fang

Dissipation and decoherence, and the evolution from pure to mixed states in quantum physics are handled through master equations for the density matrix. By embedding elements of this matrix in a higher-dimensional Liouville-Bloch equation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. R. P. Rau , R. A. Wendell

Control of decoherence in open quantum systems has become a topic of great interest due to the emergence of quantum technologies that depend on quantum coherent effects. In this work, we investigate the decoherence dynamics of systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Jitian Chen , Jakub Garwoła , Dvira Segal

Open quantum systems interacting with the environments often show interesting behaviors, such as decoherence, non-unitary evolution, dissipation, etc. It is interesting but still challenging to study the open quantum gravitation system…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Hong Wang , Jin Wang

Classical metastability manifests as noise-driven switching between disjoint basins of attraction and slowing down of relaxation, quantum systems like qubits and Rydberg atoms exhibit analogous behavior through collective quantum jumps and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Ya-Xin Xiang , Weibin Li , Zhengyang Bai , Yu-Qiang Ma

A theoretical justification of the empirical surface hopping method for the laser-driven molecular dynamics is given utilizing the formalism of the exact factorization of the molecular wavefunction [Abedi et al., PRL $\textbf{105}$, 123002…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 T. Fiedlschuster , J. Handt , E. K. U. Gross , R. Schmidt

The quantum average energy decay and the purity decay are studied for a system particle as a function of the number of constituents of a discrete bath model. The system particle is subjected to two distinct physical situations: the harmonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-02 M. D. Galiceanu , M. W. Beims , W. Strunz

We consider the quantum nonequilibrium dynamics of systems where fermionic particles coherently hop on a one-dimensional lattice and are subject to dissipative processes analogous to those of classical reaction-diffusion models. Particles…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-31 Gabriele Perfetto , Federico Carollo , Juan P. Garrahan , Igor Lesanovsky

The fidelity of quantum operations is often limited by incoherent errors, which typically can be modeled by fundamental Markovian noise processes such as amplitude damping and dephasing. In Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 150504 (2022;…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Tahereh Abad , Yoni Schattner , Anton Frisk Kockum , Göran Johansson

In our recent work (J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 2023, 14, 7680), we utilized the exact quantum dynamics results as references and proposed a general machine learning method to obtain the optimal decoherence time formula for surface hopping…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Cancan Shao , Rixin Xie , Zhecun Shi , Linjun Wang

Open quantum systems with nearly degenerate energy levels have been shown to exhibit long-lived metastable states in the approach to equilibrium, even when modelled with certain Lindblad-form quantum master equations. This is a result of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Matthew Gerry , Michael J. Kewming , Dvira Segal

This paper is motivated by the suggestion [W. Zurek, Physica Scripta, T76, 186 (1998)] that the chaotic tumbling of the satellite Hyperion would become non-classical within 20 years, but for the effects of environmental decoherence. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nathan Wiebe , L. E. Ballentine

We present a nonadiabatic classical-trajectory approach that offers the best of both worlds between fewest-switches surface hopping (FSSH) and quasiclassical mapping dynamics. This mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH) propagates the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Jonathan R. Mannouch , Jeremy O. Richardson