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We treat several key stochastic equations for non-Markovian open quantum system dynamics and present a formalism for finding solutions to them via canonical perturbation theory, without making the Born-Markov or rotating wave approximations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-06 C. H. Fleming , B. L. Hu

We investigate signatures of non-Markovianity in the dynamics of a periodically-driven qubit coupled to a dissipative bosonic environment. We propagate the dynamics of the reduced density matrix of the qubit by integrating the numerically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Graziano Amati

In this work, we developed a rigorous procedure for mapping the exact non-Markovian propagator to the generalized Lindblad form. It allows us to extract the negative decay rate that is the indicator of the non-Markovian effect. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-03 Mariia Ivanchenkoa , Peter L. Walters , Fei Wang

Tracing out the environmental degrees of freedom is a necessary procedure when simulating open quantum systems. While being an essential step in deriving a tractable master equation it represents a loss of information. In situations where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Dominic Gribben , Aidan Strathearn , Gerald E. Fux , Peter Kirton , Brendon W. Lovett

Understanding how external driving and dissipation jointly influence the dynamics of open quantum systems is essential for advancing the study of non-equilibrium quantum phenomena and developing quantum technologies. The present study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Roie Dann

Reducing computational scaling for simulating non-Markovian dissipative dynamics using artificial neural networks is both a major focus and formidable challenge in open quantum systems. To enable neural quantum states (NQSs), we encode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Long Cao , Liwei Ge , Daochi Zhang , Xiang Li , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan , Xiao Zheng

We investigate the smallest set of requirements for inducing non-Markovian dynamics in a collisional model of open quantum systems. This is done by introducing correlations in the state of the environment and analyzing the divisibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 N. K. Bernardes , A. R. R. Carvalho , C. H. Monken , M. F. Santos

In this paper I investigate the usability of the characteristic functions for the description of the dynamics of open quantum systems focussing on non-Lindblad-type master equations. I consider, as an example, a non-Markovian generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Sabrina Maniscalco

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

Open quantum systems exhibit a rich phenomenology, in comparison to closed quantum systems that evolve unitarily according to the Schr\"odinger equation. The dynamics of an open quantum system are typically classified into Markovian and…

Memory effects arise in many complex systems, from protein folding, to the spreading of epidemics and financial decisions. While so-called non-Markovian dynamics is common in larger systems with interacting components, observations in…

We consider a class of open quantum many-body Lindblad dynamics characterized by an all-to-all coupling Hamiltonian and by dissipation featuring collective ``state-dependent" rates. The latter encodes local incoherent transitions that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Eliana Fiorelli , Markus Müller , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

We investigate the nature of memory effects in the non-Markovian dynamics of spin boson models. Local quantum memory criteria can be used to indicate that the reduced dynamics of an open system necessarily requires a quantum memory in its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Charlotte Bäcker , Valentin Link , Walter T. Strunz

An operational (measurement based) scheme that connects measurement invasiveness and the presence of non-classical memory effects in open quantum systems is defined. Its underlying theoretical basis relies on a non-invasive measurability of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Adrián A. Budini

Determining the Markovianity and non-Markovianity of a quantum process is a critical problem in the theory of open quantum systems, as their behaviors differ significantly in terms of complexity. It is well recognized that a quantum process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Le Hu , Andrew N. Jordan

We investigate the dynamics of open quantum systems which are initially correlated with their environment. The strategy of our approach is to analyze how given, fixed initial correlations modify the evolution of the open system with respect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Alessandra Colla , Niklas Neubrand , Heinz-Peter Breuer

We study a class of multipartite open quantum dynamics for systems of arbitrary number of qubits. The non-Markovian quantum master equation can involve arbitrary single or multipartite and time-dependent dissipative coupling mechanisms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Adrián A. Budini , Juan P. Garrahan

In the study of open quantum systems, one typically obtains the decoherence dynamics by solving a master equation. The master equation is derived using knowledge of some basic properties of the system, the environment and their interaction:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 Hefeng Wang , S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

Recently, a series of different measures quantifying memory effects in the quantum dynamics of open systems has been proposed. Here, we derive a mathematical representation for the non-Markovianity measure based on the exchange of…

We study discrete quantum dynamics where single evolution step consists of unitary system transformation followed by decoherence via coupling to an environment. Often non-Markovian memory effects are attributed to structured environments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Kimmo Luoma , Jyrki Piilo