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We derive a quantum master equation from first principles to describe friction in one dimensional, collisional Brownian motion. We are the first to avoid an ill-defined square of the Dirac delta function by using localized wave packets…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 I. Kamleitner , J. Cresser

Decoherence and dissipation in quantum systems has been studied extensively in the context of Quantum Brownian Motion. Effective decoherence in coarse grained quantum systems has been a central issue in recent efforts by Zurek and by Hartle…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Gallis

We derive and solve analytically the non-Markovian master equation for harmonic quantum Brownian motion proving that, for weak system-reservoir couplings and high temperatures, it can be recast in the form of the master equation for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sabrina Maniscalco , Jyrki Piilo , Kalle-Antti Suominen

We study the non-Markovian decoherence and disentanglement dynamics of dissipative quantum systems with special emphasis on non-Gaussian continuous variable systems. The dynamics are described by the Hu-Paz-Zhang master equation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-21 C. Hoerhammer , H. Buettner

We generalize the classical theory of Brownian motion so as to reckon with non-Markovian effects on both Klein-Kramers and Smoluchowski equations. For a free particle and a harmonic oscillator, it is shown that such non-Markovian effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 A. O. Bolivar

Quantum non-Markovianity is crucially related to the study of dynamical maps, which are usually derived for initially factorized system-bath states. We here demonstrate that linear response theory also provides a way to derive dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Philipp Strasberg , Massimiliano Esposito

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

Are Markovian master equations for quantum Brownian motion independent of model assumptions used in the derivation and, thus, universal? With the aim of answering this question, we use a random band-matrix model for the system-bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Eric Lutz , Hans A. Weidenmueller

We consider a model of non-Markovian Quantum Brownian motion that consists of an harmonic oscillator bilinearly coupled to a thermal bath, both via its position and momentum operators. We derive the master equation for such a model and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Ferialdi , Andrea Smirne

We show how the quantum analog of the Fokker-Planck equation for describing Brownian motion can be obtained as the diffusive limit of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation. The latter describes the quantum dynamics of a tracer particle in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-20 Bassano Vacchini , Klaus Hornberger

Fluctuation and dissipation are by-products of coupling to the `environment.' The Caldeira-Leggett model, a successful paradigm of quantum Brownian motion, views the environment as a collection of harmonic oscillators linearly coupled to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Matthias Krüger , Mehran Kardar

We present a non-equilibrium quantum master equation for a driven open quantum system in the presence of a continuously applied electromagnetic field. Starting from a driven Caldeira-Leggett (CL) model in which the external electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 M. Gabriela Boada G. , Andrea Delgado , Jose Morales E

We theoretically study the dissipative dynamics of a quantum emitter placed near the planar surface of a metal supporting surface plasmon excitations. The emitter-metal coupling regime can be tuned by varying some control parameters such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela , Ferney J. Rodriguez , Luis Quiroga , Carlos Tejedor

The theory of quantum Brownian motion describes the properties of a large class of open quantum systems. Nonetheless, its description in terms of a Born-Markov master equation, widely used in the literature, is known to violate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Aniello Lampo , Soon Hoe Lim , Jan Wehr , Pietro Massignan , Maciej Lewenstein

The Brownian motion of a single particle is a paradigmatic model of the nonequilibrium dynamics of dissipative systems. In the system-plus-reservoir approach, one can derive the particle's equations of motion from the reversible dynamics of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-18 Elisa I. Goettems , Ricardo J. S. Afonso , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto , Daniel Valente

We consider quantum nonlinear systems with dissipation described within the Caldeira-Leggett model, i.e., by a nonlocal action in the path integral for the density matrix. Approximate classical-like formulas are derived in order to evaluate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cuccoli , A. Fubini , A. Rossi , V. Tognetti , R. Vaia

We present a theoretical framework to tackle quantum non-Markovian dynamics based on a microscopic collision model (CM), where the bath consists of a large collection of initially uncorrelated ancillas. Unlike standard memoryless CMs, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-30 F. Ciccarello , G. M. Palma , V. Giovannetti

We investigate the non-stationary phenomenon in a tripartite spin-1/2 system in the collision model (CM) framework. After introducing the dissipation through the system-environment collision for both Markovian and non-Markovian cases, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Yan Li , Xingli Li , Jiasen Jin

Quantum Brownian motion, described by the Caldeira-Leggett model, brings insights to understand phenomena and essence of quantum thermodynamics, especially the quantum work and heat associated with their classical counterparts. By employing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-15 Jin-Fu Chen , Tian Qiu , H. T. Quan

The dissipative dynamics of a quantum Brownian particle is studied for different types of environment. We derive analytic results for the time evolution of the mean energy of the system for Ohmic, sub-Ohmic and super-Ohmic environments,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 J. Paavola , J. Piilo , K. -A. Suominen , S. Maniscalco