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We build an exact framework to evaluate heat, energy, and particle transport between Gaussian reservoirs mediated by a quadratic quantum system. By combining full counting statistics with newly developed non-Markovian master equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Guglielmo Pellitteri , Vittorio Giovannetti , Vasco Cavina

Describing open quantum systems far from equilibrium is challenging, in particular when the environment is mesoscopic, when it develops nonequilibrium features during the evolution, or when the memory effects cannot be disregarded. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Andreu Riera-Campeny , Anna Sanpera , Philipp Strasberg

The thermodynamic behavior of Markovian open quantum systems can be described at the level of fluctuations by using continuous monitoring approaches. However, practical applications require assessing imperfect detection schemes, where the…

We show how random unitary dynamics arise from the coupling of an open quantum system to a static environment. Subsequently, we derive a master equation for the reduced system random unitary dynamics and study three specific cases:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Chahan M. Kropf , Vyacheslav N. Shatokhin , Andreas Buchleitner

In analogy to Brownian computers we explicitly show how to construct stochastic models, which mimic the behaviour of a general purpose computer (a Turing machine). Our models are discrete state systems obeying a Markovian master equation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-13 Philipp Strasberg , Javier Cerrillo , Gernot Schaller , Tobias Brandes

One of the fundamental issues in the field of open quantum systems is the classification and quantification of non-Markovianity. In the contest of quantity-based measures of non-Markovianity, the intuition of non-Markovianity in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Hong-Bin Chen , Guang-Yin Chen , Yueh-Nan Chen

The developing field of stochastic thermodynamics extends concepts of macroscopic thermodynamics such as entropy production and work to the microscopic level of individual trajectories taken by a system through phase space. The scheme…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-30 Cillian Cockrell , Ian J Ford

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

Control of open quantum systems is an essential ingredient to the realization of contemporary quantum science and technology. We demonstrate such control by employing a thermodynamically consistent framework, taking into account the fact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-13 Shimshon Kallush , Roie Dann , Ronnie Kosloff

Understanding and simulating how a quantum system interacts and exchanges information or energy with its surroundings is a ubiquitous problem, one which must be carefully addressed in order to establish a coherent framework to describe the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-25 Steve Campbell , Bassano Vacchini

We study particle and energy transport in an open quantum system consisting of a three harmonic oscillator chain coupled to thermal baths at different temperatures placed at the ends of the chain. We consider the exact dynamics of the open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Melika Babakan , Fabio Benatti , Laleh Memarzadeh

We investigate the dynamics of a qubit chain locally coupled to a thermal reservoir, modeled through repeated collisions with particles drawn from a heat bath. Under suitable conditions, the resulting Lindblad equation is thermodynamically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jorge Tabanera-Bravo , Massimiliano Esposito , Felipe Barra , Juan M. R. Parrondo

Quantum thermodynamics with open systems is often based on the quantum optical weak-coupling master equation or on operational repeated interaction models, whereas early works on thermalisation and on decoherence theory were mostly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Michael Gaida , Giulio Gasbarri , Stefan Nimmrichter

A general thermodynamic framework is presented for open quantum systems in fixed contact with a thermal reservoir. The first and second law are obtained for arbitrary system-reservoir coupling strengths, and including both factorized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Ángel Rivas

We investigate the problem of what evolutions an open quantum system described by a time-local Master equation can undergo with universal coherent controls. A series of conditions are given which exclude channels from being reachable by any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Benjamin Dive , Daniel Burgarth , Florian Mintert

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 use quantum estimation theory to derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation in Markovian open quantum systems, which bounds the fluctuation of continuous measurements. The derived quantum thermodynamic uncertainty relation holds for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-30 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

The characterization of Hamiltonians and other components of open quantum dynamical systems plays a crucial role in quantum computing and other applications. Scientific machine learning techniques have been applied to this problem in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Peter Sentz , Stanley Nicholson , Yujin Cho , Sohail Reddy , Brendan Keith , Stefanie Günther

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

The consistent definition of the thermodynamic functions of small open quantum systems in contact with an environment in equilibrium with a heat bath has been the subject of many debates in the quantum community. In the present work we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-30 Jean Richert , Tarek Khalil