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Master equations in the Lindblad form describe evolution of open quantum systems that is completely positive and simultaneously has a semigroup property. We analyze a possibility to derive this type of master equations from an intrinsically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Ziman , Peter Stelmachovic , Vladimir Buzek

Featuring memory of past inputs is a fundamental requirement for machine learning models processing time-dependent data. In quantum reservoir computing, all architectures proposed so far rely on Markovian dynamics, which, as we prove,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Antonio Sannia , Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

Quantum thermodynamics studies how quantum systems and operations may be exploited as sources of work to perform useful thermodynamic tasks. In real-world conditions, the evolution of open quantum systems typically displays memory effects,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Guilherme Zambon , Gerardo Adesso

We deduce a class of non-Markovian completely positive master equations which describe a system in a composite bipartite environment, consisting of a Markovian reservoir and additional stationary unobserved degrees of freedom that modulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian A. Budini , Henning Schomerus

Realistic quantum mechanical systems are always exposed to an external environment. The presence of the environment often gives rise to a Markovian process in which the system loses information to its surroundings. However, many quantum…

We develop a recently introduced representation of quantum dynamics based on sampling negative Markov chain processes. By introducing particles and antiparticles, this formalism maps generic quantum dynamics onto a Markov process defined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Hugo Lóio , Jacopo De Nardis , Tony Jin

The emergence of memory is a hallmark feature of non-Markovian dynamics. However, the type of memory -- classical or quantum -- required to realize certain dynamics remains unknown. We study the quantum homogenizer as a minimal model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Alexander Yosifov , Aditya Iyer , Vlatko Vedral , Jinzhao Sun

Characterization of non-Markovian open quantum dynamics is both of theoretical and practical relevance. In a seminal work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040405 (2018)], a necessary and sufficient quantum Markov condition is proposed, with a clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Chu Guo

We investigate the nature of memory effects in the non-Markovian dynamics of spin boson models. Local quantum memory criteria can be used to indicate that the reduced dynamics of an open system necessarily requires a quantum memory in its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Charlotte Bäcker , Valentin Link , Walter T. Strunz

The degree of non-Markovianity allows to characterizing quantum evolutions that depart from a Markovian regime in a similar way as Schmidt number measures the degree of entanglement of pure states. Maximally non-Markovian dynamics are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Adrián A. Budini

Positivity preservation is naturally guaranteed in exact non-Markovian master equations for open quantum system dynamics. However, in many approximated non-Markovian master equations, the positivity of the reduced density matrix is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Wufu Shi , Yusui Chen , Quanzhen Ding , Jin Wang , Ting Yu

In this work, we consider a probability representation of quantum dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems with the use of pseudostochastic maps acting on true probability distributions. These probability distributions are obtained…

Although the conditions for performing arbitrary unitary operations to simulate the dynamics of a closed quantum system are well understood, the same is not true of the more general class of quantum operations (also known as superoperators)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dave Bacon , Andrew M. Childs , Isaac L. Chuang , Julia Kempe , Debbie W. Leung , Xinlan Zhou

We formally extend the notion of Markov order to open quantum processes by accounting for the instruments used to probe the system of interest at different times. Our description recovers the classical Markov order property in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Philip Taranto , Felix A. Pollock , Simon Milz , Marco Tomamichel , Kavan Modi

Complete characterization of complete positivity preserving non-Markovian master equations is presented.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-02-24 Andrzej Kossakowski , Rolando Rebolledo

Recently, a large class of quantum non-Markovian piecewise dynamics for an open quantum system obeying closed evolution equations has been introduced [B. Vacchini, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230401 (2016)]. These dynamics have been defined in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Salvatore Lorenzo , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma , Bassano Vacchini

In this work, we derive a deterministic master equation to model a general, possibly non-Markovian, feedback. The master equation describes a system with a general evolution and measurement operation, with feedback being applied in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Guilherme de Sousa , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

We analyze the convex combinations of non-invertible generalized Pauli dynamical maps. By manipulating the mixing parameters, one can produce a channel with shifted singularities, additional singularities, or even no singularities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Katarzyna Siudzińska

The characterization of multi-time correlations in open quantum systems is of fundamental importance. In this work, we investigate multi-time processes using the process matrix formalism and show that the presence of a quantum non-Markovian…

The simulation of quantum processes is a key goal for the grand programme aiming at grounding quantum technologies as the way to explore complex phenomena that are inaccessible through standard, classical calculators. Some interesting steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Andrea Chiuri , Chiara Greganti , Laura Mazzola , Mauro Paternostro , Paolo Mataloni