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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 investigate the nature of memory effects in the non-Markovian dynamics of spin boson models. Local quantum memory criteria can be used to indicate that the reduced dynamics of an open system necessarily requires a quantum memory in its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Charlotte Bäcker , Valentin Link , Walter T. Strunz

The simulation of quantum processes is a key goal for the grand programme aiming at grounding quantum technologies as the way to explore complex phenomena that are inaccessible through standard, classical calculators. Some interesting steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Andrea Chiuri , Chiara Greganti , Laura Mazzola , Mauro Paternostro , Paolo Mataloni

Established methods for characterizing quantum information processes do not capture non-Markovian (history-dependent) behaviors that occur in real systems. These methods model a quantum process as a fixed map on the state space of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Ryan S. Bennink , Pavel Lougovski

Understanding whether the features of open quantum dynamics are genuinely quantum remains a central challenge in quantum dynamics. Even though the non-Markovian behavior of quantum dynamics has been widely investigated across different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Rajeev Gangwar , Ujjwal Sen

A quantum process is called non-Markovian when memory effects take place during its evolution. Quantum non-Markovianity is a phenomenon typically associated with the information back-flow from the environment to the principal system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Spyros Tserkis , Kade Head-Marsden , Prineha Narang

Mixing dynamical maps describing open quantum systems can lead from Markovian to non-Markovian processes. Being surprising and counter-intuitive, this result has been used as argument against characterization of non-Markovianity in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Giulio Amato , Bassano Vacchini

Quantum dynamics simulation on analog quantum simulators and digital quantum computer platforms has emerged as a powerful and promising tool for understanding complex non-equilibrium physics. However, the impact of quantum noise on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Yu-Qin Chen , Shi-Xin Zhang , Shengyu Zhang

Recently, a large class of quantum non-Markovian piecewise dynamics for an open quantum system obeying closed evolution equations has been introduced [B. Vacchini, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230401 (2016)]. These dynamics have been defined in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Salvatore Lorenzo , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma , Bassano Vacchini

Non-Markovian effects are ubiquitous in physical quantum systems and remain a significant challenge to achieving high-quality control and reliable quantum computation, but due to their inherent complexity, are rarely characterized. Past…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-06 Adam Winick , Joel J. Wallman , Joseph Emerson

Non-Markovianity, as an important feature of general open quantum systems, is usually difficult to quantify with limited knowledge of how the plant that we are interested in interacts with its environment-the bath. It often happens that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-28 Huan Yang , Haixing Miao , Yanbei Chen

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

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

In classical physics, memoryless dynamics and Markovian statistics are one and the same. This is not true for quantum dynamics, first and foremost because quantum measurements are invasive. Going beyond measurement invasiveness, here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Philip Taranto , Thomas J. Elliott , Simon Milz

We investigate the effect of counter-rotating-wave terms on the non-Markovianity in quantum open systems by employing the hierarchical equations of motion in the framework of the non-Markovian quantum state diffusion approach. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Wei Wu , Maoxin Liu

We construct a non-Markovian canonical dynamical map that accounts for systems correlated with the environment. The physical meaning of not completely positive maps is studied to obtain a theory of non-Markovian quantum dynamics. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-23 Cesar A. Rodriguez-Rosario , E. C. G. Sudarshan

The study of open quantum systems is important for fundamental issues of quantum physics as well as for technological applications such as quantum information processing. The interaction of a quantum system with it's environment is usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Jun Sun , Yong-Nan Sun , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo , Kimmo Luoma , Jyrki Piilo

More than a century after the inception of quantum theory, the question of which traits and phenomena are fundamentally quantum remains under debate. Here we give an answer to this question for temporal processes which are probed…

The interaction between an open quantum system and its environment induces generally memory effects generated by the fact that the response of the system to the environment is not instantaneous. Different physical reasons can be at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-01 Tarek Khalil , Jean Richert

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