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A semi-Markov process method for obtaining general counting statistics for open quantum systems is extended to the scenario of resetting. The simultaneous presence of random resets and wave function collapses means that the quantum jump…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-15 Fei Liu

Quantum trajectory techniques have been used in the theory of open systems as a starting point for numerical computations and to describe the monitoring of a quantum system in continuous time. Here we extend this technique and use it to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Alberto Barchielli

Large dynamical fluctuations - atypical realizations of the dynamics sustained over long periods of time - can play a fundamental role in determining the properties of collective behavior of both classical and quantum non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-18 Federico Carollo , Juan P. Garrahan , Igor Lesanovsky , Carlos Pérez-Espigares

We consider temporal models of rapidly changing Markovian networks modulated by time-evolving spatially dependent kernels that define rates for edge formation and dissolution. Alternatively, these can be viewed as Markovian networks with…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-06-11 Shankar Bhamidi , Amarjit Budhiraja , Souvik Ray

For boundary-driven non-equilibrium Markov models of non-interacting particles in one dimension, either in continuous space with the Fokker-Planck dynamics involving an arbitrary force $F(x)$ and an arbitrary diffusion coefficient $D(x)$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Cecile Monthus

Non-Markovian evolution of an open quantum system can be `unraveled' into pure state trajectories generated by a non-Markovian stochastic (diffusive) Schr\"odinger equation, as introduced by Di\'osi, Gisin, and Strunz. Recently we have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jay Gambetta , T. Askerud , H. M. Wiseman

By modeling the interaction of a system with an environment through a renewal approach, we demonstrate that completely positive non-Markovian dynamics may develop some unexplored non-standard statistical properties. The renewal approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-07 Adrian A. Budini Paolo Grigolini

These notes give a summary of techniques used in large deviation theory to study the fluctuations of time-additive quantities, called dynamical observables, defined in the context of Langevin-type equations, which model equilibrium and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-29 Hugo Touchette

For one-dimensional Jump-Drift and Jump-Diffusion processes converging towards some steady state, the large deviations of a long dynamical trajectory are described from two perspectives. Firstly, the joint probability of the empirical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-17 Cecile Monthus

We discuss in detail how non-Markovian open system dynamics can be described in terms of quantum jumps [J. Piilo et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 180402 (2008)]. Our results demonstrate that it is possible to have a jump description contained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-25 J. Piilo , K. Harkonen , S. Maniscalco , K. -A. Suominen

The degree of non-Markovianity allows to characterizing quantum evolutions that depart from a Markovian regime in a similar way as Schmidt number measures the degree of entanglement of pure states. Maximally non-Markovian dynamics are the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Adrián A. Budini

Open quantum systems that interact with structured reservoirs exhibit non-Markovian dynamics. We present a quantum jump method for treating the dynamics of such systems. This approach is a generalization of the standard Monte Carlo Wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Piilo , S. Maniscalco , K. Harkonen , K. -A. Suominen

Behind the nice unification provided by the notion of the level 2.5 in the field of large deviations for time-averages over a long Markov trajectory, there are nevertheless very important qualitative differences between the meaning of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-20 Cecile Monthus

Stochastic methods with quantum jumps are often used to solve open quantum system dynamics. Moreover, they provide insight into fundamental topics, as the role of measurements in quantum mechanics and the description of non-Markovian memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Andrea Smirne , Matteo Caiaffa , Jyrki Piilo

Quantum trajectories of a Markovian open quantum system arise from the back-action of measurements performed in the environment with which the system interacts. In this work, we consider counting measurements of quantum jumps, corresponding…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-23 Calum A. Brown , Katarzyna Macieszczak , Robert L. Jack

Large deviation results are given for a class of perturbed nonhomogeneous Markov chains on finite state space which formally includes some stochastic optimization algorithms. Specifically, let {P_n} be a sequence of transition matrices on a…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Zach Dietz , Sunder Sethuraman

In a specific class of open quantum systems with finite and fixed numbers of collapsed quantum states, the semi-Markov process method is used to calculate the large deviations of the first passage time statistics. The core formula is an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-10 Fei Liu , Shihao Xia , Shanhe Su

The large-deviation method can be used to study the measurement trajectories of open quantum systems. For optical arrangements this formalism allows to describe the long time properties of the (non-equilibrium) photon counting statistics in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-06 Adrian A. Budini

In this work, we introduce an information-theoretic approach for considering changes in dynamics of finitely dimensional open quantum systems governed by master equations. This experimentally motivated approach arises from considering how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-03 Katarzyna Macieszczak

The dynamics of open quantum systems is often solved by stochastic unravellings where the average over the state vector realizations reproduces the density matrix evolution. We focus on quantum jump descriptions based on the rate operator…