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In order to model realistic quantum devices it is necessary to simulate quantum systems strongly coupled to their environment. To date, most understanding of open quantum systems is restricted either to weak system-bath couplings, or to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Aidan Strathearn , Peter Kirton , Dainius Kilda , Jonathan Keeling , Brendon W. Lovett

The concept of entropy in nonequilibrium macroscopic systems is investigated in the light of an extended equation of motion for the density matrix obtained in a previous study. It is found that a time-dependent information entropy can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. T. Grandy

We consider conservative quantum evolutions possibly interrupted by macroscopic measurements. When started in a nonequilibrium state, the resulting path-space measure is not time-reversal invariant and the weight of time-reversal breaking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Callens , W. De Roeck , T. Jacobs , C. Maes , K. Netocny

A generic non-integrable (unitary) out-of-equilibrium quantum process, when interrogated across many times, is shown to yield the same statistics as an (non-unitary) equilibrated process. In particular, using the tools of quantum stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Neil Dowling , Pedro Figueroa-Romero , Felix A. Pollock , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi

We examine several numerical techniques for the calculation of the dynamics of quantum systems. In particular, we single out an iterative method which is based on expanding the time evolution operator into a finite series of Chebyshev…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 Holger Fehske , Jens Schleede , Gerald Schubert , Gerhard Wellein , Vladimir S. Filinov , Alan R. Bishop

The time evolution of the universe is usually mathematically described under a continuous time and thus time reversible. Here, the consequences of studying the evolution of a homogenous isotropic universe by time continuous reversible…

General Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Roland Riek

We show, for the non-Markovian or time-dependent Markovian process, by breaking up a spatial quantum channel (SQC) into a series of periodically arranged sub-components, that the quality of information transmission described by the purity,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-27 Ning Tang , Zi-Long Fan , Hao-Sheng Zeng

The classical and quantum dynamics of simple time-reparametrization- invariant models containing two degrees of freedom are studied in detail. Elimination of one ``clock'' variable through the Hamiltonian constraint leads to a description…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 Ian D. Lawrie , Richard J. Epp

The theory of open quantum systems served as a tool to prepare entanglement at the beginning stage of quantum technology and more recently provides an important tool for state preparation. Dynamics given by time dependent Lindbladians are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Jihong Cai , Advith Govindarajan , Marius Junge

Quantum systems coupled to environments exhibit intricate dynamics. The master equation gives a Markov approximation of the dynamics, allowing for analytic and numerical treatments. It is ubiquitous in theoretical and applied quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Marco Merkli

The effective approach to quantum dynamics allows a reformulation of the Dirac quantization procedure for constrained systems in terms of an infinite-dimensional constrained system of classical type. For semiclassical approximations, the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-20 Martin Bojowald , Philipp A Hoehn , Artur Tsobanjan

It has often been suggested that retrocausality offers a solution to some of the puzzles of quantum mechanics: e.g., that it allows a Lorentz-invariant explanation of Bell correlations, and other manifestations of quantum nonlocality,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Huw Price

The study of open quantum systems is important for fundamental issues of quantum physics as well as for technological applications such as quantum information processing. The interaction of a quantum system with it's environment is usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Jun Sun , Yong-Nan Sun , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo , Kimmo Luoma , Jyrki Piilo

Stochastic resetting describes dynamics which are reinitialized to a reference state at random times. These protocols are attracting significant interest: they can stabilize nonequilibrium stationary states, generate correlations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Federico Carollo , Sascha Wald

The experimental proofs of strong time invariance violation in optics are discussed. Time noninvariance is the only real physical base for explanation the origin of the most phenomena in nonlinear optics. The experimental study of forward…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. A. Kuz'menko

We analyze in detail the discrete--time quantum walk on the line by separating the quantum evolution equation into Markovian and interference terms. As a result of this separation, it is possible to show analytically that the quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Romanelli , A. C. Sicardi-Schifino , R. Siri , G. Abal , A. Auyuanet , R. Donangelo

The quantum strategy (or quantum combs) framework is a useful tool for reasoning about interactions among entities that process and exchange quantum information over the course of multiple turns. We prove a time-reversal property for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 Yuan Su , John Watrous

Studying the structure of systems in nonequilibrium steady states necessitates tools that quantify population shifts and associated deformations of equilibrium free energy landscapes under persistent currents. Within the framework of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-08-14 Jorge L. Rosa-Raíces , David T. Limmer

Switching dynamical systems provide a powerful, interpretable modeling framework for inference in time-series data in, e.g., the natural sciences or engineering applications. Since many areas, such as biology or discrete-event systems, are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Lukas Köhs , Bastian Alt , Heinz Koeppl

Reversal of the time direction in stochastic systems driven by white noise has been central throughout the development of stochastic realization theory, filtering and smoothing. Similar ideas were developed in connection with certain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2013-09-03 Tryphon T. Georgiou , Anders Lindquist