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Stochastic Schr{\"o}dinger equations for quantum trajectories offer an alternative and sometimes superior approach to the study of open quantum system dynamics. Here we show that recently established convolutionless non-Markovian stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Walter T. Strunz , Ting Yu

In this work we reconsider the problem discussed by Caldeira and Leggett (CL), and generalize their results for a quantum oscillator coupled bilinearly to a reservoir with dense discrete spectrum of harmonic oscillators. We show that for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. A. Benderskii , E. I. Kats , A. S. Kotkin

In this paper we study the real-time evolution of heavy quarkonium in the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) on the basis of the open quantum systems approach. In particular, we shed light on how quantum dissipation affects the dynamics of the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Takahiro Miura , Yukinao Akamatsu , Masayuki Asakawa , Alexander Rothkopf

We revisit the model of a quantum Brownian oscillator linearly coupled to an environment of quantum oscillators at finite temperature. By introducing a compact and particularly well-suited formulation, we give a rather quick and direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-17 C. H. Fleming , Albert Roura , B. L. Hu

We show how a large family of master equations, describing quantum Brownian motion of a harmonic oscillator with translationally invariant damping, can be derived within a phenomenological approach, based on the assumption that an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. V. Dodonov , S. S. Mizrahi , V. V. Dodonov

We introduce a non-equilibrium version of the Caldeira-Leggett model in which a quantum particle is strongly coupled to a set of engineered reservoirs. The reservoirs are composed by collections of squeezed and displaced thermal modes, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Vasco Cavina , Massimiliano Esposito

Based on the dynamical quantization method we derive a quantum phase-space non-Markovian Smoluchowski equation describing the non-inertial Brownian motion of a harmonic oscillator immersed in a generic environment. In the long-time regime…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-23 A. O. Bolivar

We analyze the microscopic model of quantum Brownian motion, describing a Brownian particle interacting with a bosonic bath through a coupling which is linear in the creation and annihilation operators of the bath, but may be a nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-17 Pietro Massignan , Aniello Lampo , Jan Wehr , Maciej Lewenstein

An equation for the reduced density matrix which describes a free particle, that is interacting with a linearly dissipative medium, is derived using the total Hamiltonian, and without resorting to any artificial model. A Master equation is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. H. Richardson

Owing to the Chapman-Kolmogorov equation for Markovian dynamics,any equilibrium trajectory of a Brownian particle in a solvent fluid can be viewed as the superposition of an uncountable number of non-equilibrium states. This property…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-18 Jason Boynewicz , Michael C. Thumann , Giuseppe Procopio , Massimiliano Giona

Characterizing non-Markovian quantum dynamics is essential for accurately modeling open quantum systems, particularly in near-term quantum technologies. In this work, we develop a structure-preserving approach to characterizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Sohail Reddy

We study the influence of entanglement on the relation between the statistical entropy of an open quantum system and the heat exchanged with a low temperature environment. A model of quantum Brownian motion of the Caldeira-Leggett type -…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christian Hoerhammer , Helmut Buettner

Aim of this note is to analyse branching Brownian motion within the class of models introduced in the recent paper [4] and called chemical diffusion master equations. These models provide a description for the probabilistic evolution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Alberto Lanconelli , Berk Tan Perçin

Using a minimal-coupling-scheme we investigate the quantum Brownian motion of a particle in an anisotropic-dissipative-medium under the influence of an arbitrary potential in both relativistic and non-relativistic regimes. A general quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Ehsan Amooghorban , Fardin Kheirandish

Quantum brownian motion is a fundamental model for a proper understanding of open quantum systems in different contexts such as chemistry, condensed matter physics, bio-physics and opto- mechamics. In this paper we propose a novel approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Matteo Carlesso , Angelo Bassi

We investigate the Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics of Gaussian quantum channels, exploiting a recently introduced necessary and sufficient criterion and the ensuing measure of non-Markovianity based on the violation of the divisibility…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Gianpaolo Torre , Fabrizio Illuminati

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

Brownian motion of free particles on curved surfaces is studied by means of the Langevin equation written in Riemann normal coordinates. In the diffusive regime we find the same physical behavior as the one described by the diffusion…

A new model that generalizes the study of quantum Brownian motion (BM) is constructed. We consider disordered environment that may be either static (quenched), noisy or dynamical. The Zwanzig-Caldeira-Leggett BM-model constitutes formally a…

chao-dyn · Physics 2009-10-28 Doron Cohen

We consider the non-Markovian Langevin evolution of a dissipative dynamical system in quantum mechanics in the path integral formalism. After discussing the role of the frequency cutoff for the interaction of the system with the heat bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-23 E. S. Fraga , G. Krein , L. F. Palhares