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Master equations in the Lindblad form describe evolution of open quantum systems that is completely positive and simultaneously has a semigroup property. We analyze a possibility to derive this type of master equations from an intrinsically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mario Ziman , Peter Stelmachovic , Vladimir Buzek

Quantum open systems are described in the Markovian limit by master equations in Lindblad form. I argue that common ``quantum trajectory'' techniques corresponding to continuous measurement schemes, which solve the master equation by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Todd A. Brun

We present an overview of time-dependent transport phenomena in quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on steady-state regimes. We present the ideas after the main theoretical frameworks to study open-quantum systems out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Matteo Acciai , Liliana Arrachea , Janine Splettstoesser

We propose a scheme allowing to observe the evolution of a quantum system in the semiclassical regime along the paths generated by the propagator. The scheme relies on performing consecutive weak measurements of the position. We show how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-23 A. Matzkin

In this work we build a theoretical framework for the transport of information in quantum systems. This is a framework aimed at describing how out of equilibrium open quantum systems move information around their state space, using an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-23 F. Anza

We propose a way to understand the evolution of an open quantum system using a description that dispenses a continuous evolution in time, by discrete operators entangled states, in its most direct and fundamental way. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Bernabé Mejía , Hernán A. Castillo

We show that the dynamics of any open quantum system that is initially correlated with its environment can be described by a set of (or less) completely positive maps, where d is the dimension of the system. Only one such map is required…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Gerardo A. Paz-Silva , Michael J. W. Hall , Howard M. Wiseman

Quantum collision models allow for the dynamics of open quantum systems to be described by breaking the environment into small segments, typically consisting of non-interacting harmonic oscillators or two-level systems. This work introduces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Anton Corr , Stefano Cusumano , Gabriele De Chiara

Thanks to recent experimental advances in simulating and detecting quantum dynamics with high precision and controllability, our understanding of the physics of monitored quantum systems has considerably deepened over the past decades. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Ryusuke Hamazaki , Ken Mochizuki , Hisanori Oshima , Yohei Fuji

Stochastic quantum trajectories, such as pure state evolutions under unitary dynamics and random measurements, offer a crucial ensemble description of many-body open system dynamics. Recent studies have highlighted that individual quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Shivan Mittal , Bin Yan

Measurement-induced phases exhibit unconventional dynamics as emergent collective phenomena, yet their behavior in tailored interacting systems -- crucial for quantum technologies -- remains less understood. We develop a systematic toolbox…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Zejian Li , Anna Delmonte , Xhek Turkeshi , Rosario Fazio

Emerging quantum hardware provides new possibilities for quantum simulation. While much of the research has focused on simulating closed quantum systems, the real-world quantum systems are mostly open. Therefore, it is essential to develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Huo Chen , Niladri Gomes , Siyuan Niu , Wibe Albert de Jong

Controlling the non adiabatic dynamics of isolated quantum systems driven through a critical point is of interest in a variety of fields ranging from quantum simulation to finite-time thermodynamics. We briefly review the different methods…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-02-10 A. del Campo , K. Sengupta

The tunneling probability for a system modelling macroscopic quantum tunneling is computed. We consider an open quantum system with one degree of freedom consisting of a particle trapped in a cubic potential interacting with an environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Esteban Calzetta , Enric Verdaguer

Digital quantum computers have the potential to study the dynamics of complex quantum systems. Nonequilibrium open quantum systems are, however, less straightforward to be implemented. Here we consider a collisional model representation of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-02 Rebecca Erbanni , Xiansong Xu , Tommaso Demarie , Dario Poletti

The dynamical behavior of interacting systems plays a fundamental role for determining quantum correlations, such as entanglement. In this Letter, we describe temporal quantum effects of the inseparable evolution of composite quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-26 J. Sperling , I. A. Walmsley

A systematic approach to the non-Markovian quantum dynamics of open systems is given by the projection operator techniques of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. Combining these methods with concepts from quantum information theory and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinz-Peter Breuer

The large deviation theory has recently been applied to open quantum systems to uncover dynamical crossovers in the space of quantum trajectories associated to Markovian evolutions. Such dynamical crossovers are characterized by qualitative…

By viewing the non-equilibrium transport setup as a quantum open system, we propose a reduced-density-matrix based quantum transport formalism. At the level of self-consistent Born approximation, it can precisely account for the correlation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ping Cui , Xin-Qi Li , Jiushu Shao , YiJing Yan

Recently it has been shown that the evolution of open quantum systems may be ``unraveled'' into individual ``trajectories,'' providing powerful numerical and conceptual tools. In this letter we use quantum trajectories to study mesoscopic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. A. Brun , N. Gisin , P. F. O'Mahony , M. Rigo