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Multistability cannot be derived from any theoretical model that is based on a monostable master equation. On the other hand, multistability is experimentally-observed in a variety of quantum systems. A master equation having a nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Eyal Buks

We derive a Markovian master equation for a linearly driven dissipative quantum harmonic oscillator, valid for generic driving beyond the adiabatic limit. We solve this quantum master equation for arbitrary Gaussian initial states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Sinan Altinisik , Eric Lutz

Nonequilibrium energy transport serves as one of fundamental problems in quantum thermodynamics and quantum technologies. Driven quantum master equation in the dressed picture provides an efficient way of investigating nonequilibrium energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Junran Kong , Yuwei Lu , Huan Liu , Liwei Duan , Chen Wang

We investigate the dynamic evolution and thermodynamic process of a driven quantum system immersed in a finite-temperature heat bath. A Born-Markovian quantum master equation is formally derived for the time-dependent system with discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Dan Wang , Dazhi Xu

Classical thermodynamics is built with the concept of equilibrium states. However, it is less clear how equilibrium thermodynamics emerges through the dynamics that follows the principle of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Md. Manirul Ali , Wei-Ming Huang , Wei-Min Zhang

The nonlinear dynamics of dissipative quantum systems in incoherent laser fields is studied in the framework of master equation with random model describing the laser noise and Markovian approximation for dealing with the system-bath…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 O. El Akramine , A. Makhoute , M. Zitane , M. Tij

We obtain a non-Markovian quantum master equation directly from the quantization of a non-Markovian Fokker-Planck equation describing the Brownian motion of a particle immersed in a generic environment (e.g. a non-thermal fluid). As far as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-25 A. O. Bolivar

We theoretically study a simple non-equilibrium quantum network whose dynamics can be expressed and exactly solved in terms of a time-local master equation. Specifically, we consider a pair of coupled fermionic modes, each one locally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Mark T. Mitchison , Martin B. Plenio

We study the statistical mechanics of classical and quantum systems in non-equilibrium steady states. Emphasis is placed on systems in strong thermal gradients. Various measures and functional forms of observables are presented. The quantum…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dimitri Kusnezov , Eric Lutz , Kenichiro Aoki

We use the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis to derive a quantum master equation for a system weakly coupled to a chaotic finite-sized bath prepared in a pure state. We show that the emergence of Markovianity is controlled by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Peter O'Donovan , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi , John Goold , Mark T. Mitchison

The time-convolutionless quantum master equation is an exact description of the nonequilibrium dynamics of open quantum systems, with the advantage of being local in time. We derive a perturbative expansion to arbitrary order in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Konstantin Nestmann , Carsten Timm

We propose a nonperturbative quantum dissipation theory, in term of hierarchical quantum master equation. It may be used with a great degree of confidence to various dynamics systems in condensed phases. The theoretical development is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 Rui-Xue Xu , Bao-Ling Tian , Jian Xu , Qiang Shi , YiJing Yan

A detailed quantum kinetic master equation is developed which couples the kinetics of a trapped condensate to the vapor of non-condensed particles. This generalizes previous work which treated the vapor as being undepleted.

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 C. W. Gardiner , P. Zoller

We discuss dynamical response theory of driven-dissipative quantum systems described by Markovian Master Equations generating semi-groups of maps. In this setting thermal equilibrium states are replaced by non-equilibrium steady states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

We first discuss the geometrical construction and the main mathematical features of the maximum-entropy-production/steepest-entropy-ascent nonlinear evolution equation proposed long ago by this author in the framework of a fully quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Gian Paolo Beretta

We discuss the structure and main features of the nonlinear evolution equation proposed by this author as the fundamental dynamical law within the framework of Quantum Thermodynamics. The nonlinear equation generates a dynamical group…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Gian Paolo Beretta

Quantum thermodynamics with open systems is often based on the quantum optical weak-coupling master equation or on operational repeated interaction models, whereas early works on thermalisation and on decoherence theory were mostly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Michael Gaida , Giulio Gasbarri , Stefan Nimmrichter

A perturbative quantum master equation is derived for a system interacting with its environment, which is more general than the ones derived before. Our master equation takes into account the effect of the energy exchanges between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Esposito , P. Gaspard

We analytically derive the exact -- though formal -- master equation for a two-level quantum system (qubit) interacting with a bosonic environment within the rotating-wave approximation, assuming the environment is initially in an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Hiromichi Nakazato , Saverio Pascazio

An exact quantum master equation formalism is constructed for the efficient evaluation of quantum non-Markovian dissipation beyond the weak system-bath interaction regime in the presence of time-dependent external field. A novel truncation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rui-Xue Xu , Ping Cui , Xin-Qi Li , Yan Mo , YiJing Yan