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We define non-Markovian quantum dynamics as evolution in which the current state depends on all past states, and completely characterize its structure under the assumptions of complete positivity and non-signalling. The resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Serhii Kryhin , Vivishek Sudhir

Quantum kernel methods (QKMs) have emerged as a prominent framework for supervised quantum machine learning. Unlike variational quantum algorithms, which rely on gradient-based optimisation and may suffer from issues such as barren…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-10 John Tanner , Chon-Fai Kam , Jingbo Wang

Non-linear Hawkes processes with memory kernels given by the sum of Erlang kernels are considered. It is shown that their stability properties can be studied in terms of an associated class of piecewise deterministic Markov processes,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-11-27 Aline Duarte , Eva Löcherbach , Guilherme Ost

We present a numerical method to compute non-equilibrium memory kernels based on experimental data or molecular dynamics simulations. The procedure uses a recasting of the non-stationary generalized Langevin equation, in which we expand the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-29 Hugues Meyer , Philipp Pelagejcev , Tanja Schilling

Recently, a large class of quantum non-Markovian piecewise dynamics for an open quantum system obeying closed evolution equations has been introduced [B. Vacchini, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230401 (2016)]. These dynamics have been defined in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Salvatore Lorenzo , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma , Bassano Vacchini

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 theoretical description of quantum dynamics in an intriguing way does not necessarily imply the underlying dynamics is indeed intriguing. Here we show how a known very interesting master equation with an always negative decay rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Nina Megier , Dariusz Chruściński , Jyrki Piilo , Walter T. Strunz

We study a class of quantum dynamical maps for d-level systems that interpolate between positive, Schwarz, and completely positive evolutions. Our approach is based on a geometric analysis of the parameter space, which reveals the structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Dariusz Chruściński , Farrukh Mukhamedov

It is demonstrated how the equilibrium semiclassical approach of Coffey et al. can be improved to describe more correctly the evolution. As a result a new semiclassical Klein-Kramers equation for the Wigner function is derived, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-19 Roumen Tsekov

Quantum systems interacting with an unknown environment are notoriously difficult to model, especially in presence of non-Markovian and non-perturbative effects. Here we introduce a neural network based approach, which has the mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Leonardo Banchi , Edward Grant , Andrea Rocchetto , Simone Severini

Featuring memory of past inputs is a fundamental requirement for machine learning models processing time-dependent data. In quantum reservoir computing, all architectures proposed so far rely on Markovian dynamics, which, as we prove,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 Antonio Sannia , Ricard Ravell Rodríguez , Gian Luca Giorgi , Roberta Zambrini

We propose kernel-gradient drifting, a one-step generative modeling framework that replaces the fixed Euclidean displacement direction in drifting models with directions induced by the kernel itself. Standard drifting is attractive because…

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

The trace of an arbitrary product of quantum operators with the density operator is rendered as a multiple phase space integral of the product of their Weyl symbols with the Wigner function. Interspersing the factors with various evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida , Olivier Brodier

We present a projection-based, stability-preserving methodology for computing time correlation functions in open quantum systems governed by generalized quantum master equations with non-Markovian effects. Building upon the memory kernel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Wei Liu , Rui-Hao Bi , Yu Su , Limin Xu , Zhennan Zhou , Yao Wang , Wenjie Dou

The transfer tensor method is a versatile tool for analyzing and propagating general open quantum systems. It captures in a compact manner all memory effects in a non-Markovian system through a straightforward transformation of a set of…

We derive an approximate Gaussian solution of the Lindblad equation in the semiclassical limit, given a general Hamiltonian and linear coupling with the environment. The theory is carried out in the chord representation and describes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-24 O. Brodier , A. M. Ozorio de Almeida

Simple, controllable models play an important role to learn how to manipulate and control quantum resources. We focus here on quantum non-Markovianity and model the evolution of open quantum systems by quantum renewal processes. This class…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Nina Megier , Manuel Ponzi , Andrea Smirne , Bassano Vacchini

We describe how randomized benchmarking can be used to reconstruct the unital part of any trace-preserving quantum map, which in turn is sufficient for the full characterization of any unitary evolution, or more generally, any unital…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-12 Shelby Kimmel , Marcus P. da Silva , Colm A. Ryan , Blake R. Johnson , Thomas Ohki

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