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Semi-Markov processes represent a well known and widely used class of random processes in classical probability theory. Here, we develop an extension of this type of non-Markovian dynamics to the quantum regime. This extension is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-30 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

In the dynamics of open quantum systems, information may propagate in time through either the system or the environment, giving rise to Markovian and non-Markovian temporal correlations, respectively. However, despite their notable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Guilherme Zambon , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

Characterization of non-Markovian open quantum dynamics is both of theoretical and practical relevance. In a seminal work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 040405 (2018)], a necessary and sufficient quantum Markov condition is proposed, with a clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-24 Chu Guo

The paradigm of considering open quantum systems -- i.e. focusing only on the system of interest, and treating the rest of the world as an effective environment -- has proven to be a highly effective way to understand a range of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Jonathan Keeling , E. Miles Stoudenmire , Mari-Carmen Bañuls , David R. Reichman

Markovian approximation is a widely-employed idea in descriptions of the dynamics of open quantum systems (OQSs). Although it is usually claimed to be a concept inspired by classical Markovianity, the term quantum Markovianity is used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-02 Li Li , Michael J. W. Hall , Howard M. Wiseman

Quantum Markov models are employed ubiquitously in quantum physics and in quantum information theory due to their relative simplicity and analytical tractability. In particular, these models are known to give accurate approximations for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-02 Hendra I. Nurdin

Recent advances in quantum technologies and related experiments have created a need for highly accurate, versatile, and computationally efficient simulation techniques for the dynamics of open quantum systems. Long-lived correlation effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Meng Xu , Vasilii Vadimov , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold

We define the concept of an `open' Markov process, a continuous-time Markov chain equipped with specified boundary states through which probability can flow in and out of the system. External couplings which fix the probabilities of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Blake S. Pollard

The theory of open quantum systems served as a tool to prepare entanglement at the beginning stage of quantum technology and more recently provides an important tool for state preparation. Dynamics given by time dependent Lindbladians are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Jihong Cai , Advith Govindarajan , Marius Junge

In recent work, Baez, Fong and the author introduced a framework for describing Markov processes equipped with a detailed balanced equilibrium as open systems of a certain type. These `open Markov processes' serve as the building blocks for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2016-11-02 Blake S. Pollard

The information encoded into an open quantum system that evolves under a Markovian dynamics is always monotonically non-increasing. Nonetheless, for a given quantifier of the information contained in the system, it is in general not clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Dario De Santis , Markus Johansson

The precise characterization of dynamics in open quantum systems often presents significant challenges, leading to the introduction of various approximations to simplify a model. One commonly used strategy involves Markovian approximations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Zhao-Ming Wang , S. L. Wu , Mark S. Byrd , Lian-Ao Wu

Stochastic thermodynamics and the associated fluctuation relations provide the means to extend the fundamental laws of thermodynamics to small scales and systems out of equilibrium. The fluctuating thermodynamic variables are usually…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-29 Aki Kutvonen , Tapio Ala-Nissilä , Jukka P. Pekola

We identify a set of dynamical maps of open quantum system, and refer to them as "$ \epsilon $-Markovian" maps. It is constituted of maps which, in a higher dimensional system-environment Hilbert space, possibly violate Born approximation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-10 Sreetama Das , Sudipto Singha Roy , Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Ujjwal Sen

Non-Markovianity has recently attracted large interest due to significant advances in its characterization and its exploitation for quantum information processing. However, up to now, only non-Markovian regimes featuring environment to…

We study non-Markovianity in the exact dynamics of two two-level atoms in a resonant cavity. We find a critical behavior in the form of a Markovian to non-Markovian transition at a finite interatomic distance and a discontinuity in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Ignacio González , Ángel Rivas

We discuss the conceptually different definitions used for the non-Markovianity of classical and quantum processes. The well-established definition for non-Markovianity of a classical stochastic process represents a condition on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-06 Bassano Vacchini , Andrea Smirne , Elsi-Mari Laine , Jyrki Piilo , Heinz-Peter Breuer

Recently remarkable progress in quantum technology has been witnessed. In view of this it is important to investigate an open quantum system as a model of such quantum devices. Quantum devices often require extreme conditions such as very…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-02 Shingo Kukita , Yasushi Kondo , Mikio Nakahara

Understanding and simulating non-Markovian quantum dynamics remains an important challenge in open quantum system theory. A key advance in this endeavour would be to develop a unified mathematical description of non-Markovian dynamics, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Rahul Trivedi

We construct a large class of completely positive and trace preserving non-Markovian dynamical maps for an open quantum system. These maps arise from a piecewise dynamics characterized by a continuous time evolution interrupted by jumps,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-03 Bassano Vacchini