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The characterization of Hamiltonians and other components of open quantum dynamical systems plays a crucial role in quantum computing and other applications. Scientific machine learning techniques have been applied to this problem in a…

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We present a strategy to empirically determine the internal and control Hamiltonians for an unknown two-level system (black box) subject to various (piecewise constant) control fields when direct readout by measurement is limited to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 SG Schirmer , A Kolli , DKL Oi

Quantum systems which interact with their environment are often modeled by maximal dissipative operators or so-called Pseudo-Hamiltonians. In this paper the scattering theory for such open systems is considered. First it is assumed that a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Behrndt , M. M. Malamud , H. Neidhardt

Hamiltonian diagonalization is at the heart of understanding physical properties and practical applications of quantum systems. It is highly desired to design quantum algorithms that can speedup Hamiltonian diagonalization, especially those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 Jinfeng Zeng , Chenfeng Cao , Chao Zhang , Pengxiang Xu , Bei Zeng

In this note, we develop a framework to describe open quantum systems in the Heisenberg picture, i.e., via time evolving operator algebras. We point out the incompleteness of the previous proposals in this regard. We argue that a complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Nachiket Karve , R. Loganayagam

We discuss topology in dissipative quantum systems from the perspective of quantum trajectories. The latter emerge in the unraveling of Markovian quantum master equations and/or in continuous quantum measurements. Ensemble-averaging quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Clemens Gneiting , Akshay Koottandavida , Alexander V. Rozhkov , Franco Nori

We propose dynamical control schemes for Hamiltonian simulation in many-body quantum systems that avoid instantaneous control operations and rely solely on realistic bounded-strength control Hamiltonians. Each simulation protocol consists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-25 Adam D. Bookatz , Pawel Wocjan , Lorenza Viola

Essential to the description of a quantum system are its local degrees of freedom, which enable the interpretation of subsystems and dynamics in the Hilbert space. While a choice of local tensor factorization of the Hilbert space is often…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Jordan S. Cotler , Geoffrey R. Penington , Daniel H. Ranard

The Lindblad master equation for an open quantum system with a Hamiltonian containing an arbitrary potential is written as an equation for the Wigner distribution function in the phase space representation. The time derivative of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Isar , A. Sandulescu , W. Scheid

The motivation for studying non-Hermitian systems and the role of $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetry is discussed. We investigate the use of a quantum algorithm to find the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians, with applications…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 James Hancock , Matthew J. Craven , Craig McNeile , Davide Vadacchino

Recently, a generalization of the standard optical multiport was proposed [Phys. Rev. A 93, 043845 (2016)]. These directionally unbiased multiports allow photons to reverse direction and exit backwards from the input port, providing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 David S. Simon , Casey A. Fitzpatrick , Shuto Osawa , Alexander V. Sergienko

Determining the ground state of a many-body Hamiltonian is a central problem across physics, chemistry, and combinatorial optimization, yet it is often classically intractable due to the exponential growth of Hilbert space with system size.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Jungyun Lee , Daniel K. Park

Recent works have shown that generic local Hamiltonians can be efficiently inferred from local measurements performed on their eigenstates or thermal states. Realistic quantum systems are often affected by dissipation and decoherence due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-25 Eyal Bairey , Chu Guo , Dario Poletti , Netanel H. Lindner , Itai Arad

This work develops a symplectic framework for quantum computing to be applied to classical Hamiltonian systems, exploiting the intrinsic geometric compatibility between unitary quantum evolution and symplectic phase-space dynamics in a…

Accurately modelling many-body quantum transport systems poses a challenge both conceptually and computationally due to the growth of the Hilbert space and the multi-scale nature of the geometries and couplings present in most naturally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Adam Burgess , Nicholas Werren , Erik M. Gauger

In the theory of open quantum systems, divisibility of the system dynamical maps is related to memory effects in the dynamics. By decomposing the system Hilbert space as a direct sum of several Hilbert spaces, we study the relationship…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Fei-Lei Xiong , Zeng-Bing Chen

The manifold of coupling constants parametrizing a quantum Hamiltonian is equipped with a natural Riemannian metric with an operational distinguishability content. We argue that the singularities of this metric are in correspondence with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Zanardi , P. Giorda , M. Cozzini

We show that the methods for quantification of system-environment entanglement that were recently developed for interactions that lead to pure decoherence of the system can be straightforwardly generalized to time-dependent Hamiltonians of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-01 Małgorzata Strzałka , Radim Filip , Katarzyna Roszak

We provide exact analytical solutions for a two dimensional explicitly time-dependent non-Hermitian quantum system. While the time-independent variant of the model studied is in the broken PT-symmetric phase for the entire range of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-05 Andreas Fring , Thomas Frith

Quantum coherence inherently affects the dynamics and the performances of a quantum machine. Coherent control can, at least in principle, enhance the work extraction and boost the velocity of evolution in an open quantum system. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-10 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Alberto Carlini , Vittorio Giovannetti