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The majority of quantum open system models in the literature are simplistic in the sense that they only explicitly account for that part of the environment that directly interacts with the system of interest. A quantum open system with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Gallis

Quantum open systems are described in the Markovian limit by master equations in Lindblad form. I argue that common ``quantum jumps'' techniques, which solve the master equation by unraveling its evolution into stochastic trajectories in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Todd A. Brun

We derive the master equation that governs the evolution of the measured state backwards in time in an open system. This allows us to determine probabilities for a given set of preparation events from the results of subsequent measurements,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Stephen M. Barnett , David T. Pegg , John Jeffers , Ottavia Jedrkiewicz

Using a newly introduced connection between the local and non-local description of open quantum system dynamics, we investigate the relationship between these two characterisations in the case of quantum semi-Markov processes. This class of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-24 Nina Megier , Andrea Smirne , Bassano Vacchini

We derive the general form of a master equation describing the interaction of an arbitrary multipartite quantum system, consisting of a set of subsystems, with an environment, consisting of a large number of sub-envirobments. Each subsystem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Vittorio Giovannetti , G. Massimo Palma

We establish a generic method to analyze the time evolution of open quantum many-body systems. Our approach is based on a variational integration of the quantum master equation describing the dynamics and naturally connects to a variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Vincent R. Overbeck , Hendrik Weimer

Understanding system-bath correlations in open quantum systems is essential for various quantum information and technology applications. Derivations of most master equations (MEs) for the dynamics of open systems require approximations that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 A. P. Babu , S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , T. Ala-Nissila

A model master equation suitable for quantum computing dynamics is presented. In an ideal quantum computer (QC), a system of qubits evolves in time unitarily and, by virtue of their entanglement, interfere quantum mechanically to solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Frank Tabakin

Master equations are commonly used to describe time evolution of open systems. We introduce a general method for calculating a Markovian solution of the Nakajima-Zwanzig generalized master equation. We do so for a time dependent transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Thorsteinn H. Jonsson , Andrei Manolescu , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Anna Sitek , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

The Lindblad equation is widely employed in studies of Markovian quantum open systems. Here, firstly, a simple result is presented on the time evolution of the non Neumann entropy under the Lindblad equation, which enables one to examine if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Congjie Ou , Ralph V. Chamberlin , Sumiyoshi Abe

A systematic first-order correction to the standard Markov master equation for open quantum systems interacting with a bosonic bath is presented. It extends the Markov Lindblad master equation to the more general case of non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ting Yu , Lajos Diosi , Nicolas Gisin , Walter T. Strunz

We propose a complete treatment of a local in time dynamics of open quantum systems. In this approach Markovian evolution turns out to be a special case of a general non-Markovian one. We provide a general representation of the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-15 Dariusz Chruscinski , Andrzej Kossakowski

We are interested in the simulation of open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad master equation in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. To simulate the solution of this equation, the standard approach involves two sequential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Paul-Louis Etienney , Rémi Robin , Pierre Rouchon

Open quantum systems provide an essential theoretical basis for the development of novel quantum technologies, since any real quantum system inevitably interacts with its environment. Lindblad master equations capture the effect of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Gary Schmiedinghoff , Götz S. Uhrig

Using equations of motion with the anisotropic dissipative term for quantum particle and quantum-mechanical commutation rules, the general Maxwell-type differential equations are derived. The direct modifications of the well-known Maxwell…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 A. V. Khugaev , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko

The time evolution of Markovian open quantum systems is governed by Lindblad master equations, whose solution can be formally written as the Lindbladian exponential acting on the initial density matrix. By expanding this Lindbladian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-03 Jiayin Gu , Fan Zhang

We consider a frictionless system coupled to an external Markovian environment. The quantum and classical evolution of such systems are described by the Lindblad and the Fokker-Planck equation respectively. We show that when such a system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Zhenhao Li

Determining the Markovianity and non-Markovianity of a quantum process is a critical problem in the theory of open quantum systems, as their behaviors differ significantly in terms of complexity. It is well recognized that a quantum process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Le Hu , Andrew N. Jordan

The stochastic dissipative Schrodinger equation is derived for an open quantum system consisting of a sub-system able to exchange energy with a thermal reservoir. The resultant evolution of the wave function also gives the evolution of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-03 Phil Attard

The Lindblad master equation is a frequently used Markovian approach to describe open quantum systems in terms of the temporal evolution of a reduced density matrix. Here, the thermal environment is traced out to obtain an expression to…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-03-11 Jan Rais , Hendrik van Hees , Carsten Greiner