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In this work, the operator-sum representation of a quantum process is extended to the probability representation of quantum mechanics. It is shown that each process admitting the operator-sum representation is assigned a kernel, convolving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-03 Yan Przhiyalkovskiy

The circuit complexity of time-evolved pure quantum states grows linearly in time for an exponentially long time. This behavior has been proven in certain models, is conjectured to hold for generic quantum many-body systems, and is believed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-10-22 Yale Fan , Nicholas Hunter-Jones , Andreas Karch , Shivan Mittal

A non-Markovian stochastic Schroedinger equation for a quantum system coupled to an environment of harmonic oscillators is presented. Its solutions, when averaged over the noise, reproduce the standard reduced density operator without any…

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

We present the Reduced Operator Approximation: a simple, physically transparent and computationally efficient method of modelling open quantum systems. It employs the Heisenberg picture of the quantum dynamics, which allows us to focus on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 Agnieszka Werpachowska

We discuss many-body fermionic and bosonic systems subject to dissipative particle losses in arbitrary spatial dimensions $d$, within the Keldysh path-integral formulation of the quantum master equation. This open quantum dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-27 Federico Gerbino , Igor Lesanovsky , Gabriele Perfetto

In this paper, we present a comprehensive account of quantum dissipation theories with the quadratic environment couplings. The theoretical development includes the Brownian solvation mode embedded hierarchical quantum master equations, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-07 Zi-Hao Chen , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan

Thermodynamic extensivity is commonly introduced as a postulate -- the homogeneity of degree one in thermodynamic potentials. We provide a constructive derivation of this property from microscopic conditions on the pair potential, without…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Bob Osano

In the thesis we present an analytic approach towards exact description for steady state density operators of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics in the framework of open systems. We employ the so-called quantum Markovian semi-group evolution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-07 Enej Ilievski

The constraint coordinate-momentum \textit{phase space} (CPS) has recently been developed to study nonadiabatic dynamics in gas-phase and condensed-phase molecular systems. Although the CPS formulation is exact for describing the discrete…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Jiaji Zhang , Jian Liu , Lipeng Chen

A projection operator is introduced, which exactly transforms the inhomogeneous Nakajima--Zwanzig generalized master equation for the relevant part of a system +bath statistical operator, containing the inhomogeneous irrelevant term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Victor F. Los

Measurement-induced phase transitions have largely been explored for projective or continuous measurements of Hermitian observables, assuming perfect detection without information loss. Yet such transitions also arise in more general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Felix Kloiber-Tollinger , Lukas M. Sieberer

There exist two canonical approaches to describe open quantum systems by a time-evolution equation: the Nakajima-Zwanzig quantum master equation, featuring a time-nonlocal memory kernel $\mathcal{K}$, and the time-convolutionless equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 K. Nestmann , M. R. Wegewijs

We investigate the complex time evolution of a vacuum state with the insertion of a local primary operator in two-dimensional conformal field theories (2d CFTs). This complex time evolution can be considered as a composite process…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-15 Chen Bai , Weibo Mao , Masahiro Nozaki , Mao Tian Tan , Xueda Wen

We constrain the expansion history of the Universe and the cosmological matter density fraction in a model-independent way by exclusively making use of the relationship between background and perturbations under a minimal set of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-16 Jaime Ruiz-Zapatero , Carlos García-García , David Alonso , Pedro G. Ferreira , Richard D. P. Grumitt

The Keldysh formalism is capable of describing driven-dissipative dynamics of open quantum systems as nonunitary effective field theories that are not necessarily thermodynamical, thus often exhibiting new physics. Here, we introduce a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-07-21 Xiangyi Meng

Fixed-point equations with Lipschitz operators have been studied for more than a century, and are central to problems in mathematical optimization, game theory, economics, and dynamical systems, among others. When the Lipschitz constant of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-11-12 Jelena Diakonikolas

This paper presents a constructive proof of complete kinematic state controllability of finite-dimensional open quantum systems whose dynamics are represented by Kraus maps. For any pair of states (pure or mixed) on the Hilbert space of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-22 Rong Wu , Alexander Pechen , Constantin Brif , Herschel Rabitz

A full coupled-cluster expansion suitable for sparse algebraic operations is developed by expanding the commutators of the Baker-Campbell-Hausdorff series explicitly for cluster operators in binary representations. A full coupled-cluster…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Enhua Xu , Motoyuki Uejima , Seiichiro L. Ten-no

We consider the exact time-evolution of a broad class of fermionic open quantum systems with both strong interactions and strong coupling to wide-band reservoirs. We present a nontrivial fermionic duality relation between the evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-15 V. Bruch , K. Nestmann , J. Schulenborg , M. R. Wegewijs

Solving short and long time dynamics of closed quantum many-body systems is one of the main challenges of both atomic and condensed matter physics. For locally interacting closed systems, the dynamics of local observables can always be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Nicolas Loizeau , Berislav Buča , Dries Sels