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The quantum state for the spatial degrees of freedom of photons propagating through turbulence is analyzed. The turbulent medium is modeled by a single phase screen for weak scintillation conditions and by multiple phase screens for general…

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We consider an open quantum Fermi-system which consists of a single degenerate level with pairing interactions embedded into a superconducting bath. The time evolution of the reduced density matrix for the system is given by Linblad master…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-05-28 Daniel S. Kosov , Tomaz Prosen , Bojan Zunkovic

We show how the quantum analog of the Fokker-Planck equation for describing Brownian motion can be obtained as the diffusive limit of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation. The latter describes the quantum dynamics of a tracer particle in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-20 Bassano Vacchini , Klaus Hornberger

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating a family of Markovian master equations that can be realized through a probabilistic application of unitary channels and state preparation. Our approach employs a second-order product formula for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Evan Borras , Milad Marvian

An open quantum system with multiple levels coupled to a bosonic environment at zero temperature is investigated systematically using the non-Markovian quantum-state-diffusion (QSD) method [W. T. Strunz, L. Di\'osi, and N. Gisin, Phys. Rev.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-10 Jun Jing , Xinyu Zhao , J. Q. You , Ting Yu

Density Matrix Exponentiation is a technique for simulating Hamiltonian dynamics when the Hamiltonian to be simulated is available as a quantum state. In this paper, we present a natural analogue to this technique, for simulating Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde

A quantum system interacting with a dilute gas experiences irreversible dynamics. The corresponding master equation can be derived within two different approaches: The fully quantum description in the low-density limit and the semiclassical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 S. N. Filippov , G. N. Semin , A. N. Pechen

The non-Markovian dynamics of a charged particle linearly coupled to a neutral bosonic heat bath is investigated in an external uniform magnetic field. The analytical expressions for the time-dependent and asymptotic friction and diffusion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 I. B. Abdurakhmanov , Z. Kanokov , G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko

Stochastic unravelings represent a useful tool to describe the dynamics of open quantum systems and standard methods, such as quantum state diffusion (QSD), call for the complete positivity of the open-system dynamics. Here, we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 Matteo Caiaffa , Andrea Smirne , Angelo Bassi

We analyze the appearance of non-Markovian effects in the dynamics of a bipartite system coupled to a reservoir, which can be described within a class of non-Markovian equations given by a generalized Lindblad structure. A novel master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-01 Bassano Vacchini

We present a Wigner function-based approach for the particle density evolution in fermionic and bosonic open quantum many-body systems, including the effects of dephasing. In particular, we focus on chains of non-interacting particles…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-05-31 Michele Coppola , Gabriel T. Landi , Dragi Karevski

One long-standing difficult problem in quantum dissipative dynamics is to solve the spin-boson model in a non-Markovian regime where a tractable systematic master equation does not exist. The spin-boson model is particularly important due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-12 Zheng-Yang Zhou , Mi Chen , Ting Yu , J. Q. You

A stochastic simulation algorithm for the computation of multitime correlation functions which is based on the quantum state diffusion model of open systems is developed. The crucial point of the proposed scheme is a suitable extension of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bernd Kappler , Francesco Petruccione

The theory of open quantum system is one of the most essential tools for the development of quantum technologies. Furthermore, the Lindblad (or Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad) Master Equation plays a key role as it is the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-06 Daniel Manzano

The elements of the quantum mechanical diffusion matrix, leading to a Gibbs equilibrium state for a set of $N$ coupled quantum harmonic oscillators are derived within Lindblad's axiomatic approach. Consequences of the fundamental…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 Yamen Hamdouni

We present a detailed analysis of slowly driven quantum thermal machines based on interacting qubits within the framework of the Lindblad master equation. By implementing a systematic expansion in the driving rate, we derive explicit…

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The heavy quark drag and momentum diffusion have been investigated in a hot magnetized quark-gluon plasma, along the directions parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. The analysis is done within the framework of Fokker-Planck…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-10-09 Manu Kurian , Santosh K. Das , Vinod Chandra

We investigate the evolution of the quantum state for a free particle placed into a random external potential of white-noise type. The master equation for the density matrix is derived by means of path integral method. We propose an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-05 Lajos Diósi

In this paper we consider the modelling and simulation of open quantum systems from a device engineering perspective. We derive master equations at different levels of approximation for a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID)…