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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 present an algorithm to simulate genuine, measurement-conditioned quantum trajectories for a class of non-Markovian systems, using a collision model for the environment. We derive two versions of the algorithm, the first corresponding to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-26 S. J. Whalen

Models for open quantum systems, which play important roles in electron transport problems and quantum computing, must take into account the interaction of the quantum system with the surrounding environment. Although such models can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-17 Ke Wang , Xiantao Li

Quantum collision models normally consist of a system interacting with a set of ancillary units representing the environment. While these ancillary systems are usually assumed to be either two level systems (TLS) or harmonic oscillators, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-31 Stefano Cusumano , Gabriele De Chiara

The simulation of ion-atom collisions remains a formidable challenge due to the complex interplay between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom. We present a hybrid quantum-classical computing framework for simulating time-dependent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Minchen Qiao , Yu-xi Liu

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

An efficient algorithm to simulate dynamics of open quantum system is presented. The method describes the dynamics by unraveling stochastic wave functions converging to a density operator description. The stochastic techniques are based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ronnie Kosloff Uriel Shafir

The rapid development of quantum computers has enabled demonstrations of quantum advantages on various tasks. However, real quantum systems are always dissipative due to their inevitable interaction with the environment, and the resulting…

We derive the general form of a master equation describing the interaction of an arbitrary multipartite quantum system, consisting of a set of subsystems, with an environment, consisting of a large number of sub-envirobments. Each subsystem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Vittorio Giovannetti , G. Massimo Palma

We present an extended collision model to simulate the dynamics of an open quantum system. In our model, the unit to represent the environment is, instead of a single particle, a block which consists of a number of environment particles.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-11 Jiasen Jin , Chang-shui Yu

A quantum collision model (CM), also known as repeated interactions model, can be built from the standard microscopic framework where a system S is coupled to a white-noise bosonic bath under the rotating wave approximation, which typically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Dario Cilluffo , Francesco Ciccarello

Recently, a large class of quantum non-Markovian piecewise dynamics for an open quantum system obeying closed evolution equations has been introduced [B. Vacchini, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230401 (2016)]. These dynamics have been defined in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Salvatore Lorenzo , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma , Bassano Vacchini

Quantifying multipartite entanglement in quantum many-body systems and hybrid quantum computing architectures is a fundamental yet challenging task. In recent years, thermodynamic quantities such as the maximum extractable work from an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Harsh Sharma , Sampriti Saha , A. S. Majumdar , Manik Banik , Himadri Shekhar Dhar

A collision model (CM) is a framework to describe open quantum dynamics. In its {\it memoryless} version, it models the reservoir $\mathcal R$ as consisting of a large collection of elementary ancillas: the dynamics of the open system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Salvatore Lorenzo , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma

We consider open many-body systems governed by a time-dependent quantum master equation with short-range interactions. With a generalized Lieb-Robinson bound, we show that the evolution in this very generic framework is quasi-local, i.e.,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 Thomas Barthel , Martin Kliesch

Information-theoretic quantities have received significant attention as system-independent measures of correlations in many-body quantum systems, e.g., as universal order parameters of synchronization. In this work, we present a method to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Krzysztof Ptaszynski , Maciej Chudak , Massimiliano Esposito

We investigate the smallest set of requirements for inducing non-Markovian dynamics in a collisional model of open quantum systems. This is done by introducing correlations in the state of the environment and analyzing the divisibility of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 N. K. Bernardes , A. R. R. Carvalho , C. H. Monken , M. F. Santos

It has been recently shown that collisional models can be used to derive a general form for the master equations which describe the reduced time evolution of a composite multipartite quantum system, whose components "propagate" in an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 V. Giovannetti , G. M. Palma

We propose a collision model to investigate the information dynamics of a system coupled to an environment with varying degrees of non-Markovianity. We control the degree of non-Markovianity by applying a depolarising channel to a fixed and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-08 Simone Rijavec , Giuseppe Di Pietra

We present an approach to the numerical simulation of open quantum many-body systems based on the semiclassical framework of the discrete truncated Wigner approximation. We establish a quantum jump formalism to integrate the quantum master…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-01 Vijay Pal Singh , Hendrik Weimer