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We present a comprehensive and up to date review on the concept of quantum non-Markovianity, a central theme in the theory of open quantum systems. We introduce the concept of quantum Markovian process as a generalization of the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-26 Ángel Rivas , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We construct a large class of non-Markovian master equations that describe the dynamics of open quantum systems featuring strong memory effects, which relies on a quantum generalization of the concept of classical semi-Markov processes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-03 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

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

In the current era of noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices, research in the theory of open system dynamics has a crucial role to play. In particular, understanding and quantifying memory effects in quantum systems is critical to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 U. Shrikant , Prabha Mandayam

A link between memory effects in quantum kinetic equations and nonequilibrium correlations associated with the energy conservation is investigated. In order that the energy be conserved by an approximate collision integral, the one-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Morozov , Gerd Ropke

Accessing the physical mechanisms behind non-Markovian phenomena in open quantum dynamics requires the study of the statistical properties of the joint system-environment dynamics. This is impossible at the level of the reduced dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Giovanni Nichele , Fabio Benatti

We present an extensive introduction to quantum collision models (CMs), also known as repeated interactions schemes: a class of microscopic system-bath models for investigating open quantum systems dynamics whose use is currently spreading…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-16 Francesco Ciccarello , Salvatore Lorenzo , Vittorio Giovannetti , G. Massimo Palma

Convex combinations of the completely positive (CP) as well as CP-divisible, continuous time dynamical maps arising from collision models are investigated. While the individual maps are both CP and Markovian we find that convex combinations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Vijay Pathak , Anil Shaji

Quantum collision models are receiving increasing attention as they describe many nontrivial phenomena in dynamics of open quantum systems. In a general scenario of both fundamental and practical interest, a quantum system repeatedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Sergey N. Filippov , Ilia A. Luchnikov

We analyze non-Markovian evolution of open quantum systems. It is shown that any dynamical map representing evolution of such a system may be described either by non-local master equation with memory kernel or equivalently by equation which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Dariusz Chruscinski , Andrzej Kossakowski

The emergence of memory is a hallmark feature of non-Markovian dynamics. However, the type of memory -- classical or quantum -- required to realize certain dynamics remains unknown. We study the quantum homogenizer as a minimal model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Alexander Yosifov , Aditya Iyer , Vlatko Vedral , Jinzhao Sun

The degree of non-Markovianity allows to characterizing quantum evolutions that depart from a Markovian regime in a similar way as Schmidt number measures the degree of entanglement of pure states. Maximally non-Markovian dynamics are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Adrián A. Budini

We consider a simple microscopic model where the open-system dynamics of a qubit, despite being Markovian, shows features which are typically associated to the presence of memory effects. Namely, a non monotonic behavior both in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-18 Jan F. Haase , Andrea Smirne , Susana F. Huelga

In this paper, we study both open-loop control and closed-loop measurement feedback control of non-Markovian quantum dynamics arising from the interaction between a quantum system and its environment. We use the widely studied cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Haijin Ding , Nina H. Amini , John E. Gough , Guofeng Zhang

Quantum non-Markovianity represents memory during the system dynamics, which is typically weakened by the temperature. We here study the effects of environmental temperature on the non-Markovianity of an open quantum system by virtue of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Zhong-Xiao Man , Yun-Jie Xia , Rosario Lo Franco

We show that the use of a recently proposed iterative collision model with inter-environment swaps displays a signature of strongly non-Markovian dynamics that is highly dependent on the establishment of system-environment correlations. Two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-27 Ruari McCloskey , Mauro Paternostro

We construct a general measure for the degree of non-Markovian behavior in open quantum systems. This measure is based on the trace distance which quantifies the distinguishability of quantum states. It represents a functional of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-05 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Elsi-Mari Laine , Jyrki Piilo

Quantum collision describe open quantum systems through repeated interactions with a coarse-grained environment. However, a complete certification of these models is lacking, as no complete error bounds on the simulation of system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-03 Thibaut Lacroix , Dario Cilluffo , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

A long-standing open problem in non-Markovian quantum state diffusion (QSD) approach to open quantum systems is to establish the non-Markovian QSD equations for multiple qubit systems. In this paper, we settle this important question by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-31 Jun Jing , Xinyu Zhao , J. Q. You , W. T. Strunz , Ting Yu

The study of the physical properties of open quantum systems is at the heart of many present investigations which aim to describe their dynamical evolution, on theoretical ground and through physical realizations. Here we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 Tarek Khalil , Jean Richert