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The time-convolutionless master equation provides a general framework to model non-Markovian dynamics of an open quantum system with a time-local generator. A diagrammatic representation is developed and proven for the perturbative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-19 Bing Gu

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

The study of the physical properties of open quantum systems is at the heart of many present investigations which aim to describe their dynamical evolution, on theoretical ground and through physical realizations. Here we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Tarek Khalil , Jean Richert

We investigate what a snapshot of a quantum evolution - a quantum channel reflecting open system dynamics - reveals about the underlying continuous time evolution. Remarkably, from such a snapshot, and without imposing additional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. M. Wolf , J. Eisert , T. S. Cubitt , J. I. Cirac

Understanding whether the features of open quantum dynamics are genuinely quantum remains a central challenge in quantum dynamics. Even though the non-Markovian behavior of quantum dynamics has been widely investigated across different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Rajeev Gangwar , Ujjwal Sen

Two widely used but distinct approaches to the dynamics of open quantum systems are the Nakajima-Zwanzig and time-convolutionless quantum master equation, respectively. Although both describe identical quantum evolutions with strong memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Konstantin Nestmann , Valentin Bruch , Maarten Rolf Wegewijs

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

We analyze a class of dynamics of open quantum systems which is governed by the dynamical map mutually commuting at different times. Such evolution may be effectively described via spectral analysis of the corresponding time dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-18 D. Chruscinski , A. Kossakowski , P. Aniello , G. Marmo , F. Ventriglia

Entropy, and its temporal evolution, play a central role in the foundations of quantum theory and in modern quantum technologies. Here we study, in particular, the relations between the --- in general, non-Markovian --- evolution of an open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-18 Paolo Aniello , Joonwoo Bae , Dariusz Chruscinski

Recently remarkable progress in quantum technology has been witnessed. In view of this it is important to investigate an open quantum system as a model of such quantum devices. Quantum devices often require extreme conditions such as very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Shingo Kukita , Yasushi Kondo , Mikio Nakahara

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

The non-Markovia dynamics of quantum evolution plays an important role in open quantum sytem. However, how to quantify non-Markovian behavior and what can be obtained from non- Markovianity are still open questions, especially in complex…

We present a general theory of non-Markovian dynamics for open quantum systems. We explore the non-Markovian dynamics by connecting the exact master equations with the non-equilibirum Green functions. Environmental back-actions are fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wei-Min Zhang , Ping-Yuan Lo , Heng-Na Xiong , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Franco Nori

Non-Markovian evolution of an open quantum system can be induced by the memory effects of a reservoir. Although a reservoir with stronger memory effects may seem like it should cause stronger non-Markovian effects on the system of interest,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-13 Tiantian Ma , Yusui Chen , Tian Chen , Samuel R. Hedemann , Ting Yu

Nonlocality is a property of paramount importance both conceptually and computationally exhibited by quantum systems, which has no classical counterpart. Conceptually, it is important because it implies that the evolving system has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 A. S. Sanz , S. Miret-Artes

One of the most important topics in the study of the dynamics of open quantum system is information exchange between system and environment. Based on the features of a back-flow information from an environment to a system, an approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-23 S. Haseli , S. Salimi , A. S. Khorashad

We study the open dynamics of a quantum two-level system coupled to an environment modeled by random matrices. Using the quantum channel formalism, we investigate different quantum Markovianity measures and criteria. A thorough analysis of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 M. Carrera , T. Gorin , C. Pineda

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

We study the dynamics of a quantum system whose interaction with an environment is described by a collision model, i.e. the open dynamics is modelled through sequences of unitary interactions between the system and the individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Steve Campbell , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma , Bassano Vacchini

We consider a simple microscopic model where the open-system dynamics of a qubit, despite being Markovian, shows features which are typically associated to the presence of memory effects. Namely, a non monotonic behavior both in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Jan F. Haase , Andrea Smirne , Susana F. Huelga