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Collision models (CMs) describe an open system interacting in sequence with elements of an environment, termed ancillas. They have been established as a useful tool for analyzing non-Markovian open quantum dynamics based on the ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Graeme Pleasance , Angel E. Neira , Marco Merkli , Francesco Petruccione

A sequence of controlled collisions between a quantum system and its environment (composed of a set of quantum objects) naturally simulates (with arbitrary precision) any Markovian quantum dynamics of the system under consideration. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-01 Tomas Rybar , Sergey N. Filippov , Mario Ziman , Vladimir Buzek

Often quantum systems are not isolated and interactions with their environments must be taken into account. In such open quantum systems these environmental interactions can lead to decoherence and dissipation, which have a marked influence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 Raymond Kapral

Quantum collision models (CMs) provide advantageous case studies for investigating major issues in open quantum systems theory, and especially quantum non-Markovianity. After reviewing their general definition and distinctive features, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Francesco Ciccarello

We investigate the emergent open dynamics of a quantum system that undergoes rapid repeated unitary interactions with a sequence of ancillary systems. We study in detail how decoherence appears as a subleading effect when a quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Daniel Grimmer , David Layden , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Most literature on quantum collision models (CMs) usually considers periodic weak collisions featuring a fixed waiting time between two next collisions. Some works have yet addressed CMs with random waiting time and strong collisions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Francesco Ciccarello

We introduce the idea of weakly coherent collisional models, where the elements of an environment interacting with a system of interest are prepared in states that are approximately thermal, but have an amount of coherence proportional to a…

In this study, we address the challenge of controlling quantum systems under environmental influences using the theory of dynamical invariants. We employ a reverse engineering approach to develop control protocols designed to be robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Loris Maria Cangemi , Hilario Espinós , Ricardo Puebla , Erik Torrontegui , Amikam Levy

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

Obtaining the total wavefunction evolution of interacting quantum systems provides access to important properties, such as entanglement, shedding light on fundamental aspects, e.g. quantum energetics and thermodynamics, and guiding towards…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Maria Maffei , Patrice A. Camati , Alexia Auffèves

Simulating open quantum systems is key to understanding non-equilibrium processes, as persistent influence from the environment induces dissipation and can give rise to steady-state phase transitions. A common strategy is to embed the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Lucia Vilchez-Estevez , Alexander Yosifov , Jinzhao Sun

The accurate description of the interaction of a quantum system with a its environment is a challenging problem ubiquitous across all areas of physics, and lies at the foundation of quantum mechanics theory. Here we pioneer a new strategy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Hideaki Takahashi , Raffaele Borrelli

Quantum control of an open system is demonstrated employing a thermodynamically consistent master equation. In this framework, the open system dynamics depend on the control protocol due to the dressing of the system by the drive. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-16 Shimshon Kallush , Roie Dann , Ronnie Kosloff

We investigate quantum steering of an open quantum system by measurements on its environment in the framework of collision models. As an example we consider a coherently driven qubit dissipatively coupled to a bath. We construct local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-23 Konstantin Beyer , Kimmo Luoma , Walter T. Strunz

Quantum systems are invariably open, evolving under surrounding influences rather than in isolation. Standard open quantum system methods eliminate all information on the environmental state to yield a tractable description of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Jake Iles-Smith , Neill Lambert , Ahsan Nazir

We study the applicability of collisional models for non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems. By allowing interactions between the separate environmental degrees of freedom in between collisions we are able to construct a collision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-13 Silvan Kretschmer , Kimmo Luoma , Walter T. Strunz

We introduce the multipartite collision model, defined in terms of elementary interactions between subsystems and ancillae, and show that it can simulate the Markovian dynamics of any multipartite open quantum system. We develop a method to…

Accessing the physical mechanisms behind non-Markovian phenomena in open quantum dynamics requires the study of the statistical properties of the joint system-environment dynamics. This is impossible at the level of the reduced dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Giovanni Nichele , Fabio Benatti

Open quantum systems provide a conceptually simple setting for the exploration of collective behavior stemming from the competition between quantum effects, many-body interactions, and dissipative processes. They may display dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-14 Dominik Sulz , Christian Lubich , Gianluca Ceruti , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

Many-body approaches to open quantum systems have recently become powerful tools for investigating the detailed role of dissipative environments in diverse non-equilibrium molecular and condensed matter processes. Here, we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Florian A. Y. N. Schröder , Alex W. Chin