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It is shown that generators of single-particle, translation-invariant Lindblad operators on the infinite line are unitarily equivalent to direct integrals of finite-range bi-infinite Laurent operator with finite-range perturbations. This…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Frederik Ravn Klausen

Many current problems of interest in quantum non-equilibrium are described by time-local master equations (TLMEs) for the density matrix that are not of the Lindblad form, that is, that are not strictly probability conserving and/or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 Michael R. Hush , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

Realistic models of quantum systems must include dissipative interactions with an environment. For weakly-damped systems the Lindblad-form Markovian master equation is invaluable for this task due to its tractability and efficiency. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Gavin McCauley , Benjamin Cruikshank , Denys I. Bondar , Kurt Jacobs

The dynamical evolution of an open quantum system can be governed by the Lindblad equation of the density matrix. In this paper, we propose to characterize the density matrix topology by the topological invariant of its modular Hamiltonian.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-27 Liang Mao , Fan Yang , Hui Zhai

This work is concerned with determination of the steady-state structure of time-independent Lindblad master equations, especially those possessing more than one steady state. The approach here is to treat Lindblad systems as generalizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 Victor V. Albert , Liang Jiang

The evolution of open systems, subject to both Hamiltonian and dissipative forces, is studied by writing the $nm$ element of the time ($t$) dependent density matrix in the form \ber \rho_{nm}(t)&=& \frac {1}{A} \sum_{\alpha=1}^A \gamma…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Yahalom , R. Englman

A new theoretical framework, based on the quantum field theory of open systems applied to neutrinos, has been developed. This framework aims to describe the neutrino evolution in external environment, taking into account the effect of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-02 Konstantin Stankevich , Alexander Studenikin , Maksim Vyalkov

Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems are described by the L-GKS equation, known also as the Lindblad equation. The equation is expressed by means of left and right matrix multiplications. This formulation hampers numerical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-11 Morag Am-Shallem , Amikam Levy , Ido Schaefer , Ronnie Kosloff

The Driven Liouville von Neumann approach [J. Chem. Theory Comput. 10, 2927-2941 (2014)] is a computationally efficient simulation method for modeling electron dynamics in molecular electronics junctions. Previous numerical simulations have…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Oded Hod , César A. Rodríguez-Rosario , Tamar Zelovich , Thomas Frauenheim

The spectral theorem is proven for the quantum dynamics of quadratic open systems of n fermions described by the Lindblad equation. Invariant eigenspaces of the many-body Liouvillean dynamics and their largest Jordan blocks are explicitly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Tomaz Prosen

In the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems, a master equation for the quantum harmonic oscillator interacting with a dissipative environment, in particular with a thermal bath, is derived for the case when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Isar , A. Sandulescu , W. Scheid

We consider a Lindblad equation that for particular initial conditions reduces to an asymmetric simple exclusion process with additional loss and gain terms. The resulting Lindbladian exhibits operator-space fragmentation and each block is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-27 Jacob Robertson , Fabian H. L. Essler

The propagation of a fast particle in a low-density gas at thermal equilibrium is studied in the context of quantum mechanics. A quantum master equation in the Redfield form governing the reduced density matrix of the particle is derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 David Gaspard

We analyze the Markovian dynamics of a quantum system involving the interaction of two quantized fields at finite temperature decay. Utilizing superoperator techniques and applying two non-unitary transformations, we reformulate the…

The Lindblad equation is a widely used quantum master equation to model the dynamical evolution of open quantum systems whose states are described by density matrices. This equation is also a fundamental building block to design optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Hao Chen , Alfio Borzi

In the Color Glass Condensate(CGC) effective theory, the physics of valence gluons with large longitudinal momentum is reflected in the distribution of color charges in the transverse plane. Averaging over the valence degrees of freedom is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Ming Li , Alex Kovner

The theoretical description of the interplay between coherent evolution and chemical exchange, originally developed for magnetic resonance and later applied to other spectroscopic regimes, was derived under incorrect statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Jacob R. Lindale , Shannon L. Eriksson , Warren S. Warren

Theories with Planck-scale deformed symmetries exhibit quantum time evolution in which purity of the density matrix is not preserved. In particular we show that the non-trivial structure of momentum space of these models is reflected in a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2014-07-16 Michele Arzano

The structure of the initial system-environment state is fundamental to determining the nature and characteristics of the evolution of such an open quantum system. The usual assumption is to consider that the initial system-environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Jad C. Halimeh , Ines de Vega

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