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These notes are a short introduction to the mathematical theory of open quantum systems. They are meant to serve as an entry point into a broad research area which has applications across the quantum sciences dealing with systems subjected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Marco Merkli , Ángel Neira

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

Going back to the early days in the history of quantum mechanics, the interaction of quantum and classical systems stands among the most intriguing open questions in science and makes its appearance in several fields, from physics to…

Symplectic Geometry · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Cesare Tronci

This article is based on an invited talk given at the Workshop on Mathematical Physics Towards XXIst Century, held at Beer-Sheva, Israel in 1993. It contains an introduction to quantum gravity for mathematical physicists with an emphasis on…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Abhay Ashtekar

There is a huge number of excellent and comprehensive textbooks on quantum mechanics. They mainly differ for the approach, more or less oriented to the formalism rather than to the phenomenology, as well as for the topics covered. These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Antonio Barletta

The theory of a two-level $\eta$-Hermitian Hamiltonian with $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry is reviewed and extended to include open system dynamics. A first-principles derivation of the generalized Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Baibhab Bose , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

A finite-dimensional quantum system is coupled to a bath of oscillators in thermal equilibrium at temperature $T>0$. We show that for fixed, small values of the coupling constant $\lambda$, the true reduced dynamics of the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Marco Merkli

With the rapid progress in quantum hardware, there has been an increased interest in new quantum algorithms to describe complex many-body systems searching for the still-elusive goal of 'useful quantum advantage'. Surprisingly, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Kade Head-Marsden , Stefan Krastanov , David A. Mazziotti , Prineha Narang

A generalization of the Pistone-Sempi argument, demonstrating the utility of non-commutative Orlicz spaces, is presented. The question of lifting positive maps defined on von Neumann algebra to maps on corresponding noncommutative Orlicz…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-03-19 Louis E. Labuschagne , Wladyslaw A. Majewski

Many current problems of interest in quantum non-equilibrium are described by time-local master equations (TLMEs) for the density matrix that are not of the Lindblad form, that is, that are not strictly probability conserving and/or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 Michael R. Hush , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

In its beginnings, the physics of intense laser-matter interactions was the physics of multiphoton processes. The theory was reduced then to high-order perturbation theory, while treating matter and light in a quantum manner. With the…

We compare two approaches to open quantum systems, namely, the non-Hermitian dynamics and the Lindblad master equation. In order to deal with more general dissipative phenomena, we propose the unified master equation that combines the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-10 Konstantin G. Zloshchastiev , Alessandro Sergi

In several cases, open quantum systems can be successfully described using master equations relying on Born-Markov approximations, but going beyond these approaches has become often necessary. In this work, we introduce the NCA and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Orazio Scarlatella , Marco Schirò

Open quantum systems exhibit dynamics ranging from unitary evolution to irreversible dissipation. While the Gorini--Kossakowski--Sudarshan--Lindblad (GKSL) equation uniquely characterizes Markovian CPTP evolution, many physical platforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Bo Peng , Yu Zhang

Over the last three years, a number of fundamental physical issues were addressed in loop quantum gravity. These include: A statistical mechanical derivation of the horizon entropy, encompassing astrophysically interesting black holes as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-08-23 Abhay Ashtekar

Using quantum algorithms to simulate complex physical processes and correlations in quantum matter has been a major direction of quantum computing research, towards the promise of a quantum advantage over classical approaches. In this work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Zixuan Hu , Kade Head-Marsden , David A. Mazziotti , Prineha Narang , Sabre Kais

Recently, an effective Lindblad master equation for quantum systems whose dynamics are coupled to dissipative bosonic modes has been introduced [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 063601 (2022)]. In this approach, the bosonic modes are adiabatically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Simon B. Jäger , Ralf Betzholz

Computations of chemical systems' equilibrium properties and non-equilibrium dynamics have been suspected of being a "killer app" for quantum computers. This review highlights the recent advancements of quantum algorithms tackling complex…

Intrinsic noise in pre-fault-tolerant quantum devices poses a major challenge to the reliable realization of unitary dynamics in quantum algorithms and simulations. To address this, we present a method for simulating open quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-23 Kasturi Ranjan Swain , Rajesh K. Malla , Adolfo del Campo

The aims of this paper are two. The first is to give a brief review of the most relevant theoretical results concerning the uniqueness of the steady-state solution of the Lindblad-Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan master equation and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Davide Nigro