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We microscopically model the decoherence dynamics of entangled coherent states under the influence of vacuum fluctuation. We derive an exact master equation with time-dependent coefficients reflecting the memory effect of the environment,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-02 Jun-Hong An , Mang Feng , Wei-Min Zhang

The quantum fluctuation-dissipation theorem is a central ingredient in the construction of quantum dynamics of Brownian motion which necessarily is non-Markovian. Yet, often Markovian approximations to quantum dynamics are studied in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-06 Michele Coppola , Zoubair Daouma , Malte Henkel

We construct a large class of completely positive and trace preserving non-Markovian dynamical maps for an open quantum system. These maps arise from a piecewise dynamics characterized by a continuous time evolution interrupted by jumps,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Bassano Vacchini

We study the dynamics of a quantum system whose interaction with an environment is described by a collision model, i.e. the open dynamics is modelled through sequences of unitary interactions between the system and the individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Steve Campbell , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma , Bassano Vacchini

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

It is shown that non-Markovian master equations for an open system which are local in time can be unravelled through a piecewise deterministic quantum jump process in its Hilbert space. We derive a stochastic Schr\"odinger equation that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Jyrki Piilo

Machine learning methods have proved to be useful for the recognition of patterns in statistical data. The measurement outcomes are intrinsically random in quantum physics, however, they do have a pattern when the measurements are performed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-14 I. A. Luchnikov , S. V. Vintskevich , D. A. Grigoriev , S. N. Filippov

We present a general theory of non-Markovian dynamics for open quantum systems. We explore the non-Markovian dynamics by connecting the exact master equations with the non-equilibirum Green functions. Environmental back-actions are fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wei-Min Zhang , Ping-Yuan Lo , Heng-Na Xiong , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Franco Nori

The dynamical behavior of open quantum systems plays a key role in many applications of quantum mechanics, examples ranging from fundamental problems, such as the environment-induced decay of quantum coherence and relaxation in many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Elsi-Mari Laine , Jyrki Piilo , Bassano Vacchini

In this article we investigate driven dissipative quantum dynamics of an ensemble of two-level systems given by a Markovian master equation with collective and non-collective dissipators. Exploiting the permutation symmetry in our model, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Konrad Merkel , Valentin Link , Kimmo Luoma , Walter T. Strunz

A general method is discussed to obtain Markovian master equations which describe the interaction with the environment in a microscopic and non-perturbative fashion. It is based on combining time-dependent scattering theory with the concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Klaus Hornberger

Quantum trajectory techniques have been used in the theory of open systems as a starting point for numerical computations and to describe the monitoring of a quantum system in continuous time. Here we extend this technique and use it to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Alberto Barchielli

Accurate and efficient simulation of open quantum systems remains a significant challenge, particularly for Non-Markovian dynamics. We demonstrate the profound utility of expressing the environmental correlation function as a sum of damped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Gerardo Suárez , Michał Horodecki

We derive Markovian master equations of single and interacting harmonic systems in different scenarios, including strong internal coupling. By comparing the dynamics resulting from the corresponding Markovian master equations with exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-18 Ángel Rivas , A. Douglas K. Plato , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

A precise understanding of the influence of a quantum system's environment on its dynamics, which is at the heart of the theory of open quantum systems, is crucial for further progress in the development of controllable large-scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 I. A. Luchnikov , E. O. Kiktenko , M. A. Gavreev , H. Ouerdane , S. N. Filippov , A. K. Fedorov

We consider the dynamics of a collisional model in which both the system and environment are embodied by spin-$1/2$ particles. In order to include non-Markovian features in our model we introduce interactions among the environmental qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 B. Çakmak , M. Pezzutto , M. Paternostro , Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We refine a fluctuation-dissipation framework for quantum dynamical semigroups to resolve a long-standing ambiguity in Markovian master equations. For finite-dimensional systems, we prove that the underlying diffusion-dissipation structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Fabricio Toscano , Sergey Sergeev

An easily solvable quantum master equation has long been sought that takes into account memory effects induced on the system by the bath, i.e., non-Markovian effects. We briefly review the Post-Markovian master equation (PMME), which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-24 Chris Sutherland , Todd A. Brun , Daniel A. Lidar

Within the f-deformed oscillator formalism, we derive a Markovian master equation for the description of the damped dynamics of nonlinear systems that interact with their environment. The applicability of this treatment to the particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 O. de los Santos-Sánchez , J. Récamier , R. Jáuregui

Investigations of quantum and mesoscopic thermodynamics force one to answer two fundamental questions associated with the foundations of statistical mechanics: (i) how does macroscopic irreversibility emerge from microscopic reversibility?…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-20 Wei-Min Zhang