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We derive a Markovian master equation for driven open quantum systems based on the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariants theory, which is available for arbitrary driving protocols.The role of the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariants is to help us bypass the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 S. L. Wu , X. L. Huang , X. X. Yi

We consider the exact reduced dynamics of a two-level system coupled to a bosonic reservoir, further obtaining the exact time-convolutionless and Nakajima-Zwanzig non-Markovian equations of motion. The considered system includes the damped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 Andrea Smirne , Bassano Vacchini

Master equations under appropriate assumptions are efficient tools for the study of open quantum systems. For many-body systems, subsystems of which locally couple to thermal baths and weakly interact with each other, the local approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Si-Ying Wang , Qinghong Yang , Fu-Lin Zhang

In this paper, we propose a fractional time extension of the Quan tum Master Equation. We introduce a Caputo-type fractional derivative in time as an extension of the exponential decay of the Lindblad framework through the incorporation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-22 Taylan Demir

Microscopic master equations have gained traction for the dissipative treatment of molecular spin and solid-state systems for quantum technologies. Single particle approximations are often invoked to treat these systems, which can lead to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Mikayla Z. Fahrenbruch , Anthony W. Schlimgen , Kade Head-Marsden

On its own, the invariance properties of Markovian master equations have mostly played a mathematical or computational role in the evaluation of quantum open system dynamics. Because all forms of the equation lead to the same time evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Yohan Vianna de Almeida , Fernando Nicacio , Marcelo F. Santos

We are interested in the simulation of open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad master equation in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. To simulate the solution of this equation, the standard approach involves two sequential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Paul-Louis Etienney , Rémi Robin , Pierre Rouchon

Many current problems of interest in quantum non-equilibrium are described by time-local master equations (TLMEs) for the density matrix that are not of the Lindblad form, that is, that are not strictly probability conserving and/or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 Michael R. Hush , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

Recently, an effective Lindblad master equation for quantum systems whose dynamics are coupled to dissipative bosonic modes has been introduced [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 063601 (2022)]. In this approach, the bosonic modes are adiabatically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Simon B. Jäger , Ralf Betzholz

Contrary to conventional quantum mechanics, which treats measurement as instantaneous, here we explore a model for finite-time measurement. The main two-level system interacts with the measurement apparatus in a Markovian way described by…

The ubiquitous effects of the environment on quantum-mechanical systems generally cause temporally correlated fluctuations. This particularly holds for systems of interest for quantum computation where such effects lead to correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-23 Balázs Gulácsi , Guido Burkard

The non-Markovian behaviour of open quantum systems interacting with a reservoir can often be described in terms of a time-local master equation involving a time-dependent generator which is not in Lindblad form. A systematic perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Andrea Ma , Francesco Petruccione

In this paper, continuous-time master equations with finite states employed in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics are formulated in the language of discrete geometry. In this formulation, chains in algebraic topology are used, and master…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-11-06 Shin-itiro Goto , Hideitsu Hino

Markovian open quantum systems are governed by the Lindblad master equation where the dissipation contains two parts, i.e., the anti-Hermitian operator and the quantum jumps, which share a common dissipation rate. We generalize the Lindblad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xu-Ke Gu , Li-Zhou Tan , Franco Nori , J. Q. You

We investigate the dynamics of open quantum systems which are initially correlated with their environment. The strategy of our approach is to analyze how given, fixed initial correlations modify the evolution of the open system with respect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Alessandra Colla , Niklas Neubrand , Heinz-Peter Breuer

In this work, we present a multiple-scale perturbation technique suitable for the study of open quantum systems, which is easy to implement and in few iterative steps allows us to find excellent approximate solutions. For any time-local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 D. N. Bernal-García , B. A. Rodríguez , H. Vinck-Posada

Master equations play a pivotal role in investigating open quantum systems. In particular, the Bloch-Redfield equation stands out due to its relation to a concrete physical environment. However, without further approximations it does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-03 Diego Fernández de la Pradilla , Esteban Moreno , Johannes Feist

We present an efficient quantum algorithm for simulating the dynamics of Markovian open quantum systems. The performance of our algorithm is similar to the previous state-of-the-art quantum algorithm, i.e., it scales linearly in evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-11 Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

Here we present a Lindblad master equation that approximates the Redfield equation, a well known master equation derived from first principles, without significantly compromising the range of applicability of the Redfield equation. Instead…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Dragomir Davidovic

For adiabatically and periodically manipulated dissipative quantum systems we derive, using Floquet theory, a simple Markovian master equation. Contrary to some previous works we explicitly take into account the time dependence of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2015-03-19 I. Kamleitner , A. Shnirman