English
Related papers

Related papers: Perturbation theory for operational quantum non-Ma…

200 papers

Quantum memory effects are essential in understanding and controlling open quantum systems, yet distinguishing them from classical memory remains challenging. We introduce a convex geometric framework to analyze quantum memory propagating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Mei Yu , Ties-A. Ohst , Hai-Chau Nguyen , Stefan Nimmrichter

Quantum thermal transistors have been widely studied in the context of three-qubit systems, where each qubit interacts separately with a Markovian harmonic bath. Markovianity is an assumption that is imposed on a system if the environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Deepika Bhargava , Paranjoy Chaki , Aparajita Bhattacharyya , 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

Real-time perturbation theory is formulated for complex scalar fields away from thermal equilibrium in such a way that dissipative effects arising from the absorptive parts of loop diagrams are approximately resummed into the unperturbed…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 I. D. Lawrie , D. B. McKernan

We investigate the sensing performance of a single-qubit quantum thermometer within a non-Markovian dynamical framework. By employing an exactly numerical hierarchical equations of the motion method, we go beyond traditional paradigms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Wei Wu

We construct a large class of non-Markovian master equations that describe the dynamics of open quantum systems featuring strong memory effects, which relies on a quantum generalization of the concept of classical semi-Markov processes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-03 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

We study reaction-diffusion systems beyond the Markovian approximation to take into account the effect of memory on the formation of spatio-temporal patterns. Using a non-Markovian Brusselator model as a paradigmatic example, we show how to…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2019-12-04 Reza Torabi , Jörn Davidsen

Characterizing the memory properties of the environment has become critical for the high-fidelity control of qubits and other advanced quantum systems. However, current non-Markovian tomography techniques are either limited to discrete…

We develop convergent variational perturbation theory for quantum statistical density matrices. The theory is applicable to polynomial as well as nonpolynomial interactions. Illustrating the power of the theory, we calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Bachmann , H. Kleinert , A. Pelster

We unveil a novel source of non-Markovianity for the dynamics of quantum systems, which appears when the system does not explore the full set of dynamical trajectories in the interaction with its environment. We term this effect…

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. Recent developments in this field have increased our basic…

We develop a resource-theoretic framework that allows one to bridge the gap between two approaches to quantum thermodynamics based on Markovian thermal processes (which model memoryless dynamics) and thermal operations (which model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Jakub Czartowski , A. de Oliveira Junior , Kamil Korzekwa

The foundations of statistical mechanics, namely how equilibrium hypothesis emerges microscopically from quantum theory, is explored through investigating the environment-induced quantum decoherence processes. Based on the recent results on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-04 Heng-Na Xiong , Ping-Yuan Lo , Wei-Min Zhang , Franco Nori , Da Hsuan Feng

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

Exchange of information between a quantum system and its surrounding environment plays a fundamental role in the study of the dynamics of open quantum systems. Here we discuss the role of the information exchange in the non-Markovian…

In this paper, we extend the fluctuation theorems used for quantum channels to multitime processes. The fluctuation theorems for quantum channels are less restrictive. We show that the given entropy production can be equal to the result of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Zhiqiang Huang

Quantum resource theory formulations of thermodynamics offer a versatile tool for the study of fundamental limitations to the efficiency of physical processes, independently of the microscopic details governing their dynamics. Despite the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Giovanni Spaventa , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Controlling the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is essential in quantum information technology since it plays a crucial role in preserving quantum memory. Albeit in many realistic scenarios the quantum system can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Zhong-Xiao Man , Yun-Jie Xia , Rosario Lo Franco

Heat transport in open quantum systems is particularly susceptible to the modeling of system-reservoir interactions. It thus requires to consistently treat the coupling between a quantum system and its environment. While perturbative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Thomas Motz , Joachim Ankerhold , Jürgen T. Stockburger

Determining the steady state of an open quantum system is crucial for characterizing quantum devices and studying various physical phenomena. Often, computing a single steady state is insufficient, and it is necessary to explore its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 André Melo , Gaspard Beugnot , Fabrizio Minganti