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We develop a new method for the construction of one-dimensional integrable Lindblad systems, which describe quantum many body models in contact with a Markovian environment. We find several new models with interesting features, such as…

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This is a concise, pedagogical introduction to the dynamic field of open quantum systems governed by Markovian master equations. We focus on the mathematical and physical origins of the widely used Lindblad equation, its unraveling in terms…

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We develop a Markovian master equation in the Lindblad form that enables the efficient study of a wide range of open quantum many-body systems that would be inaccessible with existing methods. The validity of the master equation is based…

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Stochastic unraveling schemes are powerful computational tools for simulating Lindblad equations, offering significant reductions in memory requirements. However, this advantage is accompanied by increased stochastic uncertainty, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Yu Cao , Mingfeng He , Xiantao Li

The time-convolutionless (TCL) projection operator technique allows a systematic analysis of the non-Markovian quantum dynamics of open systems. We introduce a class of projection superoperators which project the states of the total system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel

Within the framework of probability distributions on projective Hilbert space a scheme for the calculation of multitime correlation functions is developed. The starting point is the Markovian stochastic wave function description of an open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bernd Kappler , Francesco Petruccione

The Monte Carlo wave function method or the quantum trajectory/jump approach is a powerful tool to study dissipative dynamics governed by the Markovian master equation, in particular for high-dimensional systems and when it is difficult to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. L. Huang , H. Y. Sun , X. X. Yi

Open quantum system interacting with structured environment is important and manifests non- Markovian behavior, which was conventionally studied using quantum trajectory stochastic method. In this paper, by dividing the effects of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-25 Chengjun Wu , Yang Li , Mingyi Zhu , Hong Guo

The Lindblad master equation is a frequently used Markovian approach to describe open quantum systems in terms of the temporal evolution of a reduced density matrix. Here, the thermal environment is traced out to obtain an expression to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Jan Rais , Hendrik van Hees , Carsten Greiner

The Lindblad master equation is one of the main approaches to open quantum systems. While it has been widely applied in the context of condensed matter systems to study properties of steady states in the limit of long times, the actual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-07 Tjark Heitmann , Jonas Richter , Jacek Herbrych , Jochen Gemmer , Robin Steinigeweg

A central problem in the theory of the dynamics of open quantum systems is the derivation of a rigorous and computationally tractable master equation for the reduced system density matrix. Most generally, the evolution of an open quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniel A. Lidar , Zsolt Bihary , K. Birgitta Whaley

A wide class of non-Markovian completely positive master equations can be formulated on the basis of quantum collisional models. In this phenomenological approach the dynamics of an open quantum system is modeled through an ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Adrian A. Budini

For the efficient simulation of open quantum systems we often use quantum jump trajectories given by pure states that evolve stochastically to unravel the dynamics of the underlying master equation. In the Markovian regime, when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Tobias Becker , Ché Netzer , André Eckardt

We develop an exact framework to describe the non-Markovian dynamics of an open quantum system interacting with an environment modeled by a generalized spectral density function. The approach relies on mapping the initial system onto an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Graeme Pleasance , Barry M. Garraway , Francesco Petruccione

The Lindblad quantum master equation is one of the central approaches to the physics of open quantum systems. In particular, boundary driving enables the study of transport, where a steady state emerges in the long-time limit, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-20 Markus Kraft , Mariel Kempa , Jiaozi Wang , Robin Steinigeweg

Dynamics of a state of interest coupled to a non-Markovian environment is studied for the first time by concatenating the non-Markovian quantum state diffusion (QSD) equation and the Feshbach projection operator partitioning technique. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-05 Jun Jing , Lian-Ao Wu , J. Q. You , Ting Yu

The theory of open quantum system is one of the most essential tools for the development of quantum technologies. Furthermore, the Lindblad (or Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad) Master Equation plays a key role as it is the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-06 Daniel Manzano

The damping of the harmonic oscillator is studied in the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. A generalization of the fundamental constraints on quantum mechanical diffusion coefficients which appear in the master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Isar , A. Sandulescu , H. Scutaru , E. Stefanescu , W. Scheid

Efficient methods for the description of the non-Markovian dynamics of open systems play an important role in many proposed applications of quantum mechanics. Here we review some of the most important tools that are based on the projection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-03 Heinz-Peter Breuer

We take up the idea of Nelson's stochastic processes, the aim of which was to deduce Schr\"odinger's equation. We make two major changes here. The first one is to consider deterministic processes which are pseudo-random but which have the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-01 Michel Gondran , Alexandre Gondran