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We derive a Markovian master equation for a linearly driven dissipative quantum harmonic oscillator, valid for generic driving beyond the adiabatic limit. We solve this quantum master equation for arbitrary Gaussian initial states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Sinan Altinisik , Eric Lutz

We develop a general theory describing the thermodynamical behavior of open quantum systems coupled to thermal baths beyond perturbation theory. Our approach is based on the exact time-local quantum master equation for the reduced open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Alessandra Colla , Heinz-Peter Breuer

The boundary cancellation theorem for open systems extends the standard quantum adiabatic theorem: assuming the gap of the Liouvillian does not vanish, the distance between a state prepared by a boundary cancelling adiabatic protocol and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Humberto Munoz-Bauza , Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Daniel Lidar

Quantum adiabatic evolutions find a broad range of applications in quantum physics and quantum technologies. The traditional form of the quantum adiabatic theorem limits the speed of adiabatic evolution by the minimum energy gaps of the…

The first proof of the quantum adiabatic theorem was given as early as 1928. Today, this theorem is increasingly applied in a many-body context, e.g. in quantum annealing and in studies of topological properties of matter. In this setup,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Sven Bachmann , Wojciech De Roeck , Martin Fraas

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are powerful quantum control methods, allowing quick evolution into target states of otherwise slow adiabatic dynamics. Such methods have widespread applications in quantum technologies, and various STA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Zelong Yin , Chunzhen Li , Jonathan Allcock , Yicong Zheng , Xiu Gu , Maochun Dai , Shengyu Zhang , Shuoming An

We present generalized adiabatic theorems for closed and open quantum systems that can be applied to slow modulations of rapidly varying fields, such as oscillatory fields that occur in optical experiments and light induced processes. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Amro Dodin , Paul Brumer

Adiabatic quantum algorithms must evolve slowly enough to suppress non-adiabatic transitions while remaining fast enough to be practical. In open systems, this trade-off is reshaped by decoherence. For Hamiltonians subject to dephasing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Afaf El Kalai , Peter J. Eder , Christian B. Mendl

We study quantum adiabatic dynamics, where the slowly moving field is influenced by system's state (feedback). The information for the feedback is gained from non-disturbating measurements done on an ensemble of identical non-interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Armen E. Allahverdyan , Guenter Mahler

Markovian open quantum systems display complicated relaxation dynamics. The spectral gap of the Liouvillian characterizes the asymptotic decay rate towards the steady state, but it does not necessarily give a correct estimate of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-21 Takashi Mori , Tatsuhiko Shirai

By stating the adiabatic theorem of quantum mechanics in a clear and rigorous way, we establish a necessary condition and a sufficient condition for its validity, where the latter is obtained employing our recently developed adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-19 Gustavo Rigolin , Gerardo Ortiz

We use the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis to derive a quantum master equation for a system weakly coupled to a chaotic finite-sized bath prepared in a pure state. We show that the emergence of Markovianity is controlled by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Peter O'Donovan , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi , John Goold , Mark T. Mitchison

Adiabatic theorem and non-adiabatic corrections have been widely applied in modern quantum technology. Recently, non-adiabatic linear response theory has been developed to probe the many-body correlations in closed systems. In this work, we…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-10 Xiaotian Nie , Wei Zheng

This paper is devoted to a generalisation of the quantum adiabatic theorem to a nonlinear setting. We consider a Hamiltonian operator which depends on the time variable and on a finite number of parameters and acts on a separable Hilbert…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-16 Clotilde Fermanian Kammerer , Alain Joye

A new approximate solution to the quantum-classical Liouville equation is derived starting from the formal solution of this equation in forward-backward form. The time evolution of a mixed quantum-classical system described by this equation…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Chang-Yu Hsieh , Raymond Kapral

An adiabatic change of parameters along a closed path may interchange the (quasi-)eigenenergies and eigenspaces of a closed quantum system. Such discrepancies induced by adiabatic cycles are refereed to as the exotic quantum holonomy, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-05 Atushi Tanaka , Taksu Cheon

Recently, some quantum algorithms have been implemented by quantum adiabatic evolutions. In this paper, we discuss the accurate relation between the running time and the distance of the initial state and the final state of a kind of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Zhaohui Wei , Mingsheng Ying

Adiabatic evolution is an emergent design principle for time modulated metamaterials, often inspired by insights from topological quantum computing such as braiding operations. However, the pursuit of classical adiabatic metamaterials is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Cyrill Bösch , Andreas Fichtner , Marc Serra Garcia

We investigate the loss of adiabaticity when cooling a many-body quantum system from an initial thermal state toward a quantum critical point. The excitation density, which quantifies the degree of adiabaticity of the dynamics, is found to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-06 Emma C. King , Johannes N. Kriel , Michael Kastner

Quantum adiabatic evolution, an important fundamental concept inphysics, describes the dynamical evolution arbitrarily close to the instantaneous eigenstate of a slowly driven Hamiltonian. In most systems undergoing spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-28 Min Zhuang , Jiahao Huang , Yongguan Ke , Chaohong Lee