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We discuss the conceptually different definitions used for the non-Markovianity of classical and quantum processes. The well-established definition for non-Markovianity of a classical stochastic process represents a condition on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 Bassano Vacchini , Andrea Smirne , Elsi-Mari Laine , Jyrki Piilo , Heinz-Peter Breuer

Spontaneous emission of an excited atom in a featureless continuum of electromagnetic modes is a fundamental process in quantum electrodynamics associated with an exponential decay of the quantum emitter to its ground state accompanied by…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-18 Stefano Longhi

We combine the dynamics of open quantum systems with interferometry and interference introducing the concept of open system interferometer. By considering a single photon in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer, where the polarization (open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 O. Siltanen , T. Kuusela , J. Piilo

We derived quantum trajectories for a system interacting with the environment prepared in a continuous mode single photon state as the limit of discrete filtering model with an environment defined as series of independent qubits prepared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Anita Dabrowska , Gniewomir Sarbicki , Dariusz Chruscinski

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

Waveguide quantum electrodynamics platforms have emerged as promising candidates for exploring and implementing non-Markovian quantum phenomena. In this work, we investigate the formation and dynamics of superpositions of bound states in a…

We construct a non-Markovian canonical dynamical map that accounts for systems correlated with the environment. The physical meaning of not completely positive maps is studied to obtain a theory of non-Markovian quantum dynamics. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario , E. C. G. Sudarshan

Although a number of measures for quantum non-Markovianity have been proposed recently, it is still an open question whether these measures directly characterize the memory effect of the environment, i.e., the dependence of a quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-28 S. C. Hou , S. L. Liang , X. X. Yi

We study the non-Markovian quantum interference phenomenon of a multi-state atomic system coupled to a bosonic dissipative environment by using the exact master equations derived in this paper. Two examples involving four-level systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Yusui Chen , J. Q. You , Ting Yu

Quantum feedback can stabilize a two-level atom against decoherence (spontaneous emission), putting it into an arbitrary (specified) pure state. This requires perfect homodyne detection of the atomic emission, and instantaneous feedback.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Jin Wang , H. M. Wiseman , G. J. Milburn

The study of quantum dynamics featuring memory effects has always been a topic of interest within the theory of open quantum system, which is concerned about providing useful conceptual and theoretical tools for the description of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Bassano Vacchini

We propose a simple structure for stationary non-Markovian quantum chains in the framework of collisional dynamics of open quantum systems. To this end, we modify the microscopic Markovian system--reservoir model, consider multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 András Bodor , Lajos Diósi , Zsófia Kallus , Thomas Konrad

We identify a set of dynamical maps of open quantum system, and refer to them as "$ \epsilon $-Markovian" maps. It is constituted of maps which, in a higher dimensional system-environment Hilbert space, possibly violate Born approximation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Sreetama Das , Sudipto Singha Roy , Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Ujjwal Sen

In this paper, a quantum filter for estimating the states of a non-Markovian qubit system is presented in an augmented Markovian system framework including both the qubit system of interest and multi-ancillary systems for representing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Shibei Xue , Matthew R. James , Alireza Shabani , Valery Ugrinovskii , Ian R. Petersen

Non-Markovian processes may arise in physics due to memory effects of environmental degrees of freedom. For quantum non-Markovianity, it is an ongoing debate to clarify whether such memory effects have a verifiable quantum origin, or…

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Including the effect of the molecular environment in the numerical modeling of time-resolved electronic spectroscopy remains an important challenge in computational spectroscopy. In this contribution, we present a general approach for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Federico Gallina , Matteo Bruschi , Roberto Cacciari , Barbara Fresch

Giant quantum emitters, whose effective size is comparable to the wavelength of the radiation they couple to, give rise to interference effects and non-Markovian dynamics that lie beyond the scope of the standard Weisskopf-Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-01 Carlos A. González-Gutiérrez

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

We experimentally emulate, in a controlled fashion, the non-Markovian dynamics of a pure dephasing spin-boson model at zero temperature. Specifically, we use a randomized set of external radio-frequency fields to engineer a desired noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-15 Deepak Khurana , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , T. S. Mahesh

Understanding whether the features of open quantum dynamics are genuinely quantum remains a central challenge in quantum dynamics. Even though the non-Markovian behavior of quantum dynamics has been widely investigated across different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Rajeev Gangwar , Ujjwal Sen