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The dynamics of Markovian open quantum systems are described by Lindblad master equations, generating a quantum dynamical semigroup. An important concept for such systems is (Davies) irreducibility, i.e., the question whether there exist…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-05 Yikang Zhang , Thomas Barthel

We study a class of multipartite open quantum dynamics for systems of arbitrary number of qubits. The non-Markovian quantum master equation can involve arbitrary single or multipartite and time-dependent dissipative coupling mechanisms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Adrián A. Budini , Juan P. Garrahan

We develop an extension of the Monte Carlo wave function approach that unambiguously identifies dynamical entanglement in general composite, open systems. Our algorithm performs tangential projections onto the set of separable states,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Laura Ares , Julien Pinske , Benjamin Hinrichs , Martin Kolb , Jan Sperling

Master equations play a pivotal role in investigating open quantum systems. In particular, the Bloch-Redfield equation stands out due to its relation to a concrete physical environment. However, without further approximations it does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Diego Fernández de la Pradilla , Esteban Moreno , Johannes Feist

A large class of non-Markovian quantum processes in open systems can be formulated through time-local master equations which are not in Lindblad form. It is shown that such processes can be embedded in a Markovian dynamics which involves a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinz-Peter Breuer

The set of continuous norm-preserving stochastic Schrodinger equations associated with the Lindblad master equation is introduced. This set is used to describe the localization properties of the state vector toward eigenstates of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Rigo , F. Mota-Furtado , P. F. O'Mahony

Quantum trajectory techniques have been used in the theory of open systems as a starting point for numerical computations and to describe the monitoring of a quantum system in continuous time. Here we extend this technique and use it to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Alberto Barchielli

We investigate the dynamics of open quantum systems which are initially correlated with their environment. The strategy of our approach is to analyze how given, fixed initial correlations modify the evolution of the open system with respect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Alessandra Colla , Niklas Neubrand , Heinz-Peter Breuer

In view of controlling finite dimensional open quantum systems, we provide a unified Lie-semigroup framework describing the structure of completely positive trace-preserving maps. It allows (i) to identify the Kossakowski-Lindblad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-07 G. Dirr , U. Helmke , I. Kurniawan , T. Schulte-Herbrueggen

A completely positive master equation describing quantum dissipation for a Brownian particle is derived starting from microphysical collisions, exploiting a recently introduced approach to subdynamics of a macrosystem. The obtained equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 B. Vacchini

Microscopic master equations have gained traction for the dissipative treatment of molecular spin and solid-state systems for quantum technologies. Single particle approximations are often invoked to treat these systems, which can lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Mikayla Z. Fahrenbruch , Anthony W. Schlimgen , Kade Head-Marsden

We show that approximating the trace norm contraction coefficient of a quantum channel within a constant factor is NP-hard. Equivalently, this shows that determining the optimal success probability for encoding a bit in a quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Idris Delsol , Omar Fawzi , Jan Kochanowski , Akshay Ramachandran

Recent work of Bravyi et al. and follow-up work by Bene Watts et al. demonstrates a quantum advantage for shallow circuits: constant-depth quantum circuits can perform a task which constant-depth classical (i.e., AC$^0$) circuits cannot.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Daniel Grier , Luke Schaeffer

Born in the intersection between quantum mechanics and general relativity, indefinite causal structure is the idea that in the continuum of time, some sets of events do not have an inherent causal order between them. Process matrices,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Omri Shmueli

In this paper, we propose and study a master-equation based approach to drive a quantum network with $n$ qubits to a consensus (symmetric) state introduced by Mazzarella et al. The state evolution of the quantum network is described by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Guodong Shi , Daoyi Dong , Ian R. Petersen , Karl Henrik Johansson

A systematic first-order correction to the standard Markov master equation for open quantum systems interacting with a bosonic bath is presented. It extends the Markov Lindblad master equation to the more general case of non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ting Yu , Lajos Diosi , Nicolas Gisin , Walter T. Strunz

We obtain the exact analytical solution for the continuously driven qutrit in the V and $\Lambda$ configurations governed by the Lindblad master equation. We calculate the linear susceptibility in each system, determining regimes of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-05-17 Zachary C. Coleman , Lincoln D. Carr

We develop an optimal control algorithm for robust quantum gate preparation in open environments with the state of the quantum system represented using the Lindblad master equation. The algorithm is based on adaptive linearization and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-17 Luke S. Baker , Syed A. Shah , Anatoly Zlotnik , Andrei Piryatinski

For multi-level open quantum system, the interaction between different levels could pose challenge to understand the quantum system both analytically and numerically. In this work, we study the approximation of the dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yu Cao , Jianfeng Lu

Quantum simulation has emerged as a key application of quantum computing, with significant progress made in algorithms for simulating both closed and open quantum systems. The simulation of open quantum systems, particularly those governed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Evan Borras , Milad Marvian