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When dealing with system-reservoir interactions in an open quantum system, such as a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex, approximations are usually made to obtain the dynamics of the system. One question immediately arises: how good…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Hong-Bin Chen , Neill Lambert , Yuan-Chung Cheng , Yueh-Nan Chen , Franco Nori

Non-Markovianty of open quantum systems dynamics is a physically relevant property which is usually associated with the backflow of (quantum) information. Using this paradigmatic marker, we develop an operational framework to investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-16 Thiago Melo D. Azevedo , Cristhiano Duarte , Nadja K. Bernardes

We introduce a new analytical method for studying the open quantum systems problem of a discrete system weakly coupled to an environment of harmonic oscillators. Our approach is based on a phase space representation of the density matrix…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-27 Amir Fruchtman , Brendon W. Lovett , Simon C. Benjamin , Erik M. Gauger

The detection and quantification of non-Markovianity, a.k.a. memory, in quantum systems is a central problem in the theory of open quantum systems. There memory is as a result of the interaction between the system and its environment.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Jorge Tabanera-Bravo , Aljaž Godec

Recent advances in quantum technologies and related experiments have created a need for highly accurate, versatile, and computationally efficient simulation techniques for the dynamics of open quantum systems. Long-lived correlation effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Meng Xu , Vasilii Vadimov , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold

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 explore the connection between two recently introduced notions of non-Markovian quantum dynamics and the validity of the so-called quantum regression theorem. While non-Markovianity of a quantum dynamics has been defined looking at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-27 Giacomo Guarnieri , Andrea Smirne , Bassano Vacchini

In-medium Yukawa theory is part of the thermodynamics of the Standard Model of particle physics and is one of the main building blocks of most effective field theories of fermionic systems. By computing its pressure we investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-24 Eduardo S. Fraga , Leticia F. Palhares , Marcus Benghi Pinto

We explore the possibility to generate nonlocal dynamical maps of an open quantum system through local system-environment interactions. Employing a generic decoherence process induced by a local interaction Hamiltonian, we show that initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-29 Elsi-Mari Laine , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Jyrki Piilo , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

In various contexts in mathematical physics one needs to compute the logarithm of a positive unbounded operator. Examples include the von Neumann entropy of a density matrix and the flow of operators with the modular Hamiltonian in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-27 Nima Lashkari , Hong Liu , Srivatsan Rajagopal

The correlated projection superoperator techniques provide a better understanding about how correlations lead to strong non-Markovian effects in open quantum systems. Their superoperators are independent of initial state, which may not be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-11 Zhiqiang Huang

We employ quantum relative entropy to establish the relation between the measurement uncertainty and its disturbance on a state in the presence (and absence) of quantum memory. For two incompatible observables, we present the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-17 Jun Zhang , Yang Zhang , Chang-shui Yu

Over the years the field of non-Markovian stochastic processes and anomalous diffusion evolved from a specialized topic to mainstream theory, which transgressed the realms of physics to chemistry, biology and ecology. Numerous…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-01-14 Alessio Lapolla , Aljaz Godec

Recently, there has been an upsurge of interest in quantum thermodynamic devices, notably quantum batteries. Quantum batteries serve as energy storage devices governed by the rules of quantum thermodynamics. Here, we propose a model of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Gourab Bhanja , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

Using recently proposed measures for non-Markovianity [H. P. Breuer, E. M. Laine, and J. Piilo, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 103}, 210401 (2009)], we study the dynamics of a qubit coupled to a spin environment via an energy-exchange mechanism. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. J. G. Apollaro , C. Di Franco , F. Plastina , M. Paternostro

We add non-linear and state-dependent terms to quantum field theory. We show that the resulting low-energy theory, non-linear quantum mechanics, is causal, preserves probability and permits a consistent description of the process of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-03-10 David E. Kaplan , Surjeet Rajendran

Understanding how the dynamics of a given quantum system with many degrees of freedom is altered by the presence of a generic perturbation is a notoriously difficult question. Recent works predict that, in the overwhelming majority of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-01 Tjark Heitmann , Jonas Richter , Jochen Gemmer , Robin Steinigeweg

The emergence of memory is a hallmark feature of non-Markovian dynamics. However, the type of memory -- classical or quantum -- required to realize certain dynamics remains unknown. We study the quantum homogenizer as a minimal model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Alexander Yosifov , Aditya Iyer , Vlatko Vedral , Jinzhao Sun

An important problem in applied dynamical systems is to compute the external forcing that provokes the largest response of a desired observable quantity. For this, we investigate the perturbation theory of Markov matrices in connection with…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-07-21 Manuel Santos Gutierrez , Niccolo Zagli , Giulia Carigi

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