English
Related papers

Related papers: How quantum evolution with memory is generated in …

200 papers

Master equations describing open quantum dynamics are typically first order differential equations. When such dynamics brings the trajectories in state space of more than one initial state to the same point at finite instants in time, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Abhaya S. Hegde , K. P. Athulya , Vijay Pathak , Jyrki Piilo , Anil Shaji

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

We initiate an investigation into whether fractional calculus, with its intrinsic long-tailed memory and nonlocal features, can provide a viable model for gravitational-wave memory effects. We consider two toy constructions: ($i$) a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-01 Sercan Kaya , Bayram Tekin

The ability to efficiently and accurately calculate equilibrium time correlation functions of many-body condensed phase quantum systems is one of the outstanding problems in theoretical chemistry. The Nakajima-Zwanzig-Mori formalism coupled…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Andrés Montoya-Castillo , David R. Reichman

We propose a new point of view regarding the problem of time in quantum mechanics, based on the idea of replacing the usual time operator $\mathbf{T}$ with a suitable real-valued function $T$ on the space of physical states. The proper…

In this work, we derive a deterministic master equation to model a general, possibly non-Markovian, feedback. The master equation describes a system with a general evolution and measurement operation, with feedback being applied in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-25 Guilherme de Sousa , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

The combination of machine learning and quantum computing has emerged as a promising approach for addressing previously untenable problems. Reservoir computing is an efficient learning paradigm that utilizes nonlinear dynamical systems for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 Jiayin Chen , Hendra I. Nurdin , Naoki Yamamoto

Markovian master equations (formally known as quantum dynamical semigroups) can be used to describe the evolution of a quantum state $\rho$ when in contact with a memoryless thermal bath. This approach has had much success in describing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-18 Álvaro M. Alhambra , Mischa P. Woods

Quantum reservoir computing has emerged as a promising machine learning paradigm for processing temporal data on near-term quantum devices, as it allows for exploiting the large computational capacity of the qubits without suffering from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Emanuele Ricci , Francesco Monzani , Luca Nigro , Enrico Prati

Quantum systems coupled to environments exhibit intricate dynamics. The master equation gives a Markov approximation of the dynamics, allowing for analytic and numerical treatments. It is ubiquitous in theoretical and applied quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Marco Merkli

The non-Markovianity of the stochastic process called the quantum semi-Markov (QSM) process is studied using a recently proposed quantification of memory based on the deviation from semigroup evolution, that provides a unified description…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-07 Shrikant Utagi , Subhashish Banerjee , R. Srikanth

The paper deals with a certain class of random evolutions. We develop a construction that yields an invariant measure for a continuous-time Markov process with random transitions. The approach is based on a particular way of constructing…

Probability · Mathematics 2015-10-20 Y. Belopolskaya , Y. Suhov

Starting from our idea of combining the Feynman path integral spirit and the Dyson series kernel, we find an explicit and general form of time evolution operator that is a $c$-number function and a power series of perturbation including all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 An Min Wang

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating the time evolution generated by any bounded, time-dependent operator $-A$ with non-positive logarithmic norm, thereby serving as a natural generalization of the Hamiltonian simulation problem.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Guang Hao Low , Rolando D. Somma

We make use of matrix representations of completely positive maps in order to study open quantum dynamics on graphs, with emphasis on quantum walks and the associated trajectories obtained via a monitoring of the position. We discuss the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-08 Carlos F. Lardizabal

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

For a quantum system undergoing non-Markovian open quantum dynamics, we demonstrate a tomography algorithm based on multi-time measurements of the system, which reconstructs a minimal environment coupled to the system, such that the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Chu Guo

In this review article, we present a non-equilibrium quantum transport theory for transient electron dynamics in nanodevices based on exact master equation derived with the path integral method in the fermion coherent-state representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Pei-Yun Yang , Wei-Min Zhang

We aim to bridge the gap between quantum coherence, quantum correlations, and nonequilibrium quantum transport in a quantum double-dot (QDD) system interacting with fermionic reservoirs. The system-reservoir coupling is modeled using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Saikumar Krithivasan , Thingujam Yaiphalemba Meitei , Arijit Sen , Md Manirul Ali

We investigate memory effects in non-Markovian dynamics on superconducting quantum processors provided by IBM Quantum. We use a collision-model approach to implement suitable single- and two-qubit dynamics with a gate-based quantum circuit.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Charlotte Bäcker , Krishna Palaparthy , Walter T. Strunz