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We consider generic interacting chain of qubits, which are coupled at the edges to baths of fixed polarizations. We can determine the nonequilibrium steady states, described by the fixed point of the Lindblad Master Equation. Under rather…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Vladislav Popkov , Roberto Livi

Quantum Brownian motion of a harmonic oscillator in the Markovian approximation is described by the respective Caldeira-Leggett master equation. This master equation can be brought into Lindblad form by adding a position diffusion term to…

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We present a nonlinear stochastic Schroedinger equation for pure states describing non-Markovian diffusion of quantum trajectories. It provides an unravelling of the evolution of a quantum system coupled to a finite or infinite number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Diosi , N. Gisin , W. T. Strunz

A stochastic model of a continuous nondemolition observation of a free quantum Brownian motion is presented. The nonlinear stochastic wave equation describing the posterior dynamics of the observed quantum system is solved in a Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. P. Belavkin , P. Staszewski

Hu, Paz and Zhang [ B.L. Hu, J.P. Paz and Y. Zhang, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 45} (1992) 2843] have derived an exact master equation for quantum Brownian motion in a general environment via path integral techniques. Their master equation provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. J. Halliwell , T. Yu

A closed expression for the density operator of the damped harmonic oscillator is extracted from the master equation based on the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. The entropy and effective temperature of the system are subsequently…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Isar

General open quantum systems display memory features, their master equations are non-Markovian. We show that the subclass of Gaussian non-Markovian open system dynamics is tractable in a depth similar to the Markovian class. The structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 Lajos Diósi , Luca Ferialdi

The quantum master equation is an important tool in the study of quantum open systems. It is often derived under a set of approximations, chief among them the Born (factorization) and Markov (neglect of memory effects) approximations. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-11 Daniel Boyanovsky , David Jasnow

We provide the exact non-Markovian master equation for a two-level system interacting with a thermal bosonic bath, and we write the solution of such a master equation in terms of the Bloch vector. We show that previous approximated results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-04 L. Ferialdi

We describe the transition of $N$ weakly interacting atoms into a Bose-Einstein condensate within a number-conserving quantum master equation theory. Based on the separation of time scales for condensate formation and non-condensate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Alexej Schelle , Thomas Wellens , Dominique Delande , Andreas Buchleitner

We have presented a simple approach to quantum theory of Brownian motion and barrier crossing dynamics. Based on an initial coherent state representation of bath oscillators and an equilibrium canonical distribution of quantum mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dhruba Banerjee , Bidhan Chandra Bag , Suman Kumar Banik , Deb Shankar Ray

An extended variational principle providing the equations of motion for a system consisting of interacting classical, quasiclassical and quantum components is presented, and applied to the model of bilinear coupling. The relevant dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Grigorescu

The Brownian dynamics of the density operator for a quantum system interacting with a classical heat bath is described using a stochastic, non-linear Liouville equation obtained from a variational principle. The environment's degrees of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 M. Grigorescu

We investigate open quantum Brownian motions as quantum analogues of classical diffusion processes under interaction with an external enviroment. Building upon the microscopic derivation by Sinayskiy and Petruccione [20], we revisit the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Manuel D. de la Iglesia , Carlos F. Lardizabal

Derivation of a quantum master equation for a system weakly coupled to a bath which takes into account nonsecular effects, but nevertheless has the mathematically correct Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan form (in particular, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Anton Trushechkin

It has long been recognized that the dynamics of linear quantum systems is classical in the Wigner representation. Yet many conceptually important linear problems are typically analyzed using such generally applicable techniques as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 James Anglin , Salman Habib

We propose a new representation for several quantum master equations in so-called quasithermodynamic form. This representation (when it exists) let one to write down dynamical equations both for diagonal and non-diagonal elements of density…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-21 E. D. Vol

We present a systematic procedure to derive a quantum master equation for thermal relaxation in real scalar field theory, expanding on the method proposed in [Koide and Nicacio, Phys. Lett. A494, 129277 (2024)]. We begin by introducing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 T. Koide , F. Nicacio

We propose an energy-driven stochastic master equation for the density matrix as a dynamical model for quantum state reduction. In contrast, most previous studies of state reduction have considered stochastic extensions of the Schr\"odinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-30 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

Starting with the average particle distribution function for bosons and fermions for non-extensive thermodynamics , as proposed in \cite{CMP}, we obtain the corresponding density matrix operators and hamiltonians. In particular, for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-09-26 Marcelo R. Ubriaco