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This paper addresses the problem of finding an asymptotic solution for first and second order integro-differential equations containing an arbitrary kernel, by evaluating the corresponding inverse Laplace and Fourier transforms. The aim of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-03 Mauro Bologna

We show how the effective equation of motion for a distinguished quantum particle in an ideal gas environment can be obtained by means of the monitoring approach introduced in [EPL 77, 50007 (2007)]. The resulting Lindblad master equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-09 Klaus Hornberger , Bassano Vacchini

The celebrated Lindblad equation governs the non-unitary time evolution of density operators used in the description of open quantum systems. It is usually derived from the von Neumann equation for a large system, at given physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Benedikt M. Reible , Luigi Delle Site

We calculate the derivations and the first Hochschild cohomology group of the quantum grassmannian over a field of characteristic zero in the generic case when the deformation parameter is not a root of unity. Using graded techniques and…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Stéphane Launois , Tom Lenagan

Control of quantum dissipative systems can be challenging because control variables are typically part of the system Hamiltonian, which can only generate motion along unitary orbits of the system. To transit between orbits, one must harness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 Patrick Rooney , Anthony Bloch , Chitra Rangan

Using the known possibility to associate the completely positive maps with density matrices and recent results on expressing the density matrices with sets of classical probability distributions of dichotomic random variables we construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-09 Ashot Avanesov , Vladimir I. Man'ko

A general theoretical approach to study the quantum kinetics in a system coupled to a bath is proposed. Starting with the microscopic interaction, a Lindblad master equation is established, which goes beyond the common secular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Gediminas Kiršanskas , Martin Franckié , Andreas Wacker

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating a family of Markovian master equations that can be realized through a probabilistic application of unitary channels and state preparation. Our approach employs a second-order product formula for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Evan Borras , Milad Marvian

By employing the potential non-relativistic quantum chromodynamics (pNRQCD) effective field theory within an open quantum system framework, we derive a Lindblad equation governing the evolution of the heavy-quarkonium reduced density…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-31 Ajaharul Islam , Nora Brambilla , Miguel Ángel Escobedo , Michael Strickland , Antonio Vairo , Peter Vander Griend

The purely relaxational non-equilibrium dynamics of the quantum spherical model as described through a Lindblad equation is analysed. It is shown that the phenomenological requirements of reproducing the exact quantum equilibrium state as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Sascha Wald , Gabriel T. Landi , Malte Henkel

The Lindblad equation generalizes the Schr\"{o}dinger equation to quantum systems that undergo dissipative dynamics. The quantum simulation of Lindbladian dynamics is therefore non-unitary, preventing a naive application of state-of-the-art…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Matthew Pocrnic , Dvira Segal , Nathan Wiebe

It is suspected that the quantum evolution equations describing the micro-world as we know it are of a special kind that allows transformations to a special set of basis states in Hilbert space, such that, in this basis, the evolution is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Gerard t Hooft

We uncover a topological classification applicable to open fermionic systems governed by a general class of Lindblad master equations. These `quadratic Lindbladians' can be captured by a non-Hermitian single-particle matrix which describes…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-28 Simon Lieu , Max McGinley , Nigel R. Cooper

The Lindblad equation, as one approach to open quantum systems, describes the density matrix of a particle or a chain of interacting particles, which are in contact with a thermal bath. Still, it is not fully understood yet, how arbitrary…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-13 Jan Rais , Hendrik van Hees , Carsten Greiner

Master equations in the Lindblad form describe evolution of open quantum systems that is completely positive and simultaneously has a semigroup property. We analyze a possibility to derive this type of master equations from an intrinsically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Ziman , Peter Stelmachovic , Vladimir Buzek

Markovian open quantum systems are governed by the Lindblad master equation where the dissipation contains two parts, i.e., the anti-Hermitian operator and the quantum jumps, which share a common dissipation rate. We generalize the Lindblad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xu-Ke Gu , Li-Zhou Tan , Franco Nori , J. Q. You

We present an algebraic framework for approximate model reduction of Markovian open quantum dynamics that guarantees complete positivity and trace preservation by construction. First, we show that projecting a Lindblad generator on its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Tommaso Grigoletto , Alain Sarlette , Francesco Ticozzi , Lorenza Viola

We perform a systematic symmetry classification of many-body Lindblad superoperators describing general (interacting) open quantum systems coupled to a Markovian environment. Our classification is based on the behavior of the many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-24 Lucas Sá , Pedro Ribeiro , Tomaž Prosen

We formulate the general approach based on the Lindblad equation to calculate the full counting statistics of work and heat produced by driven quantum systems weakly coupled with a Markovian thermal bath. The approach can be applied to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-13 Mihail Silaev , Tero T. Heikkilä , Pauli Virtanen

We point to the connection between a recently introduced class of non-Markovian master equations and the general structure of quantum collisional models. The basic construction relies on three basic ingredients: a collection of time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-09 Bassano Vacchini