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The hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) for a generalized quantum dissipative system is rigorously constructed in the frameworks of two different stochastic dynamical descriptions, i.e., the non-Markovian quantum state diffusion…

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We study two-body non-Hermitian physics in the context of an open dissipative system depicted by the Lindblad master equation. Adopting a minimal lattice model of a handful of interacting fermions with single-particle dissipation, we show…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-19 Peize Ding , Wei Yi

Multi-shifted linear systems with non-Hermitian coefficient matrices arise in numerical solutions of time-dependent partial/fractional differential equations (PDEs/FDEs), in control theory, PageRank problems, and other research fields. We…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-26 Xian-Ming Gu , Ting-Zhu Huang , Bruno Carpentieri , Akira Imakura , Ke Zhang , Lei Du

Understanding the precise interaction mechanisms between quantum systems and their environment is crucial for advancing stable quantum technologies, designing reliable experimental frameworks, and building accurate models of real-world…

The density matrix formalism and the equation of motion approach are two semi-analytical methods that can be used to compute the non-equilibrium dynamics of correlated systems. While for a bilinear Hamiltonian both formalisms yield the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-07-25 Mona H. Kalthoff , Frederik Keim , Holger Krull , Götz S. Uhrig

An open system is not conservative because energy can escape to the outside. An open system by itself is thus not conservative. As a result, the time-evolution operator is not hermitian in the usual sense and the eigenfunctions (factorized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. S. C. Ching , P. T. Leung , W. M. Suen , S. S. Tong , K. Young

The Hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) method is an important non-perturbative technique, allowing numerically exact treatment of open quantum systems with strong coupling and non-Markovian memory. However, its encoding of bath memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Po-Rong Lai , Jhen-Dong Lin , Yi-Te Huang , Po-Chen Kuo , Neill Lambert , Yueh-Nan Chen

A non-Hermitian operator $H$ defined in a Hilbert space with inner product $\langle\cdot|\cdot\rangle$ may serve as the Hamiltonian for a unitary quantum system, if it is $\eta$-pseudo-Hermitian for a metric operator (positive-definite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 Ali Mostafazadeh

We present an alternative form of master equation, applicable on the analysis of non-equilibrium dynamics of fermionic open quantum systems. The formalism considers a general scenario, composed by a multipartite quantum system in contact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 Fabrício M. Souza , L. Sanz

Quantum simulation of non-Markovian open quantum dynamics is essential but challenging for standard quantum computers due to their non-Hermitian nature, leading to non-unitary evolution, and the limitations of available quantum resources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Yukai Guo , Xing Gao

In a way paralleling the recently accepted non-Hermitian version of quantum mechanics in its Schr\"{o}dinger representation (working often with the innovative and heuristically productive concept of ${\cal PT}-$symmetry), it is demonstrated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-14 Miloslav Znojil

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Peter Sentz , Stanley Nicholson , Yujin Cho , Sohail Reddy , Brendan Keith , Stefanie Günther

In principle, non-Hermitian quantum equations of motion can be formulated using as a starting point either the Heisenberg's or the Schr\"odinger's picture of quantum dynamics. Here it is shown in both cases how to map the algebra of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-02-07 Alessandro Sergi

Simulating time evolution of quantum systems is one of the most promising applications of quantum computing and also appears as a subroutine in many applications such as Green's function methods. In the current era of NISQ machines we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Nathan Fitzpatrick , Harriet Apel , David Muñoz Ramo

In this paper, we present a gradient algorithm for identifying unknown parameters in an open quantum system from the measurements of time traces of local observables. The open system dynamics is described by a general Markovian master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Shibei Xue , Rebing Wu , Dewei Li , Min Jiang

We provide a reviewlike introduction into the quantum mechanical formalism related to non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems with real eigenvalues. Starting with the time-independent framework we explain how to determine an appropriate domain of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria , Andreas Fring

Simulating open quantum systems, which interact with external environments, presents significant challenges on noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) devices due to limited qubit resources and noise. In this paper, we propose an efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Colin Burdine , Nora Bauer , George Siopsis , Enrique P. Blair

We investigate strategies for simulating open quantum systems coupled to dissipative baths by comparing explicit wave function-based discretization [via multi-layer multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH)] and the implicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Xinxian Chen , Ignacio Franco

Non-Hermitian disordered systems have emerged as a central arena in modern physics, with ramifications spanning condensed matter, quantum, statistical, and high energy contexts. The same principles also underlie phenomena beyond physics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kohei Kawabata , Shinsei Ryu

We present a fermionic description of non-equilibrium multi-level systems. Our approach uses the Keldysh path integral formalism and allows us to take into account periodic drives, as well as dissipative channels. The technique is based on…