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In this paper, we present a method for estimating the validity range of the quantum Markovian master equation as applied to the Unruh-DeWitt (UDW) detector within a broader context, particularly without necessitating an exact solution for…

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We study the dynamics of a two-level quantum system interacting with an external electromagnetic field periodic and quasiperiodic in time. The quantum evolution is described exactly by the classical equations of motion of a gyromagnet in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Renato M. Angelo , Walter F. Wreszinski

The Hamiltonian of a linearly driven two-level system, or qubit, in the standard rotating frame contains non-commuting terms that oscillate at twice the drive frequency, $\omega$, rendering the task of analytically finding the qubit's time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-29 Daniel Zeuch , Fabian Hassler , Jesse J. Slim , David P. DiVincenzo

Quantum master equations are commonly used to model the dynamics of open quantum systems, but their accuracy is rarely compared with the analytical solution of exactly solvable models. In this work, we perform such a comparison for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Zihan Xia , Juan Garcia-Nila , Daniel Lidar

The generalized rotating-wave approximation (GRWA) is presented for the two-qubit and cavity coipling system . The analytical expressions in the zeroth order approximation recover the previous adiabatic ones. The counterrotating-wave terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-14 Yu-Yu Zhang , Qing-Hu Chen

This paper studies composite quantum systems, like atom-cavity systems and coupled optical resonators, in the absence of external driving by resorting to methods from quantum field theory. Going beyond the rotating wave approximation, it is…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Andreas Kurcz , Antonio Capolupo , Almut Beige , Emilio Del Giudice , Giuseppe Vitiello

Recent advances in quantum technologies and related experiments have created a need for highly accurate, versatile, and computationally efficient simulation techniques for the dynamics of open quantum systems. Long-lived correlation effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Meng Xu , Vasilii Vadimov , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold

The description of an open quantum system's decay almost always requires several approximations as to remain tractable. Here, we first revisit the meaning, domain and seeming contradictions of a few of the most widely used of such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-02 Juliane Klatt , Chahan Michael Kropf , Stefan Yoshi Buhmann

We analytically find quantitative, non-perturbative bounds to the validity of the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) for the multi-atom generalization of the quantum Rabi model: the Dicke model. Precisely, we bound the norm of the difference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-09 Leonhard Richter , Daniel Burgarth , Davide Lonigro

The damped harmonic oscillator is a workhorse for the study of dissipation in quantum mechanics. However, despite its simplicity, this system has given rise to some approximations whose validity and relation to more refined descriptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Rosenau da Costa , A. O. Caldeira , S. M. Dutra , H. Westfahl

We demonstrate the surprising integrability of the classical Hamiltonian associated to a spin 1/2 system under periodic external fields. The one-qubit rotations generated by the dynamical evolution is, on the one hand, close to that of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Renato M. Angelo , Walter F. Wreszinski

For studying the dynamics of a two-level system coupled to a quantum oscillator we have presented an analytical approach, the transformed rotating-wave approximation, which takes into account the effect of the counter-rotating terms but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Congjun Gan , Hang Zheng

We study the effect of the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) and the secular approximation (SA) on the non-Markovian behavior in the spin-boson model at zero-temperature. We find that both the RWA and SA lead to a dramatic reduction in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Mäkelä , M. Möttönen

Rotating wave approximation in a quantum spin system driven by a linearly polarized alternating magnetic field with quadrupole interaction presents is investigated in detail in this paper. The conventional way to employ the rotating wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 Wenkui Ding , Xiaoguang Wang

We study quantitatively the breakdown of the rotating-wave approximation when calculating collective light emission by quantum emitters, in particular in the weak-excitation limit. Our starting point is a known multiple-scattering formalism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-25 Mads Anders Jørgensen , Martijn Wubs

We derive the stochastic equations and consider the non-Markovian dynamics of a system of multiple two-level atoms in a common quantum field. We make only the dipole approximation for the atoms and assume weak atom-field interactions. From…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 C. H. Fleming , N. I. Cummings , Charis Anastopoulos , B. L. Hu

The ubiquitous effects of the environment on quantum-mechanical systems generally cause temporally correlated fluctuations. This particularly holds for systems of interest for quantum computation where such effects lead to correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Balázs Gulácsi , Guido Burkard

We present a numerical method to approximate the long-time asymptotic solution $\rho_\infty(t)$ to the Lindblad master equation for an open quantum system under the influence of an external drive. The proposed scheme uses perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Brian Baker , Andy C. Y. Li , Nicholas Irons , Nathan Earnest , Jens Koch

A quantum system that interacts with an environment generally undergoes nonunitary evolution described by a non-Markovian or Markovian master equation. In this paper, we construct the non-Markovian Redfield master equation for a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Brenden Bowen , Nishant Agarwal , Archana Kamal

In this paper, we discuss the compatibility between the rotating-wave and the adiabatic approximations for controlled quantum systems. Although the paper focuses on applications to two-level quantum systems, the main results apply in higher…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-09-06 Nicolas Augier , Ugo Boscain , Mario Sigalotti