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Quantum systems coupled to environments exhibit intricate dynamics. The master equation gives a Markov approximation of the dynamics, allowing for analytic and numerical treatments. It is ubiquitous in theoretical and applied quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-17 Marco Merkli

The aims of this paper are two. The first is to give a brief review of the most relevant theoretical results concerning the uniqueness of the steady-state solution of the Lindblad-Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan master equation and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-21 Davide Nigro

Usually, the relaxation times of a gas are estimated in the frame of the Boltzmann equation. In this paper, instead, we deal with the relaxation problem in the frame of the dynamical theory of Hamiltonian systems, in which the definition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-12-26 A. M. Maiocchi , A. Carati

We study the constraints imposed on the population and phase relaxation rates by the physical requirement of completely positive evolution for open N-level systems. The Lindblad operators that govern the evolution of the system are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Sonia G Schirmer , Allan I Solomon

Master equations are commonly used to describe time evolution of open systems. We introduce a general method for calculating a Markovian solution of the Nakajima-Zwanzig generalized master equation. We do so for a time dependent transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Thorsteinn H. Jonsson , Andrei Manolescu , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Anna Sitek , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

Several approximation procedures, such as the full or partial rotating-wave, time-averaging, and geometric-arithmetic approximations, have been proposed to derive Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) generators from the Born-Markov…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 Teruhiro Ikeuchi , Takashi Mori

A perturbative quantum master equation is derived for a system interacting with its environment, which is more general than the ones derived before. Our master equation takes into account the effect of the energy exchanges between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Esposito , P. Gaspard

We develop a Markovian master equation in the Lindblad form that enables the efficient study of a wide range of open quantum many-body systems that would be inaccessible with existing methods. The validity of the master equation is based…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Frederik Nathan , Mark S. Rudner

Convolutionless and convolution master equations are the two mostly used physical descriptions of open quantum systems dynamics. We subject these equations to time deformations: local dilations and contractions of time scale. We prove that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-22 Sergey N. Filippov , Dariusz Chruściński

A central problem in the theory of the dynamics of open quantum systems is the derivation of a rigorous and computationally tractable master equation for the reduced system density matrix. Most generally, the evolution of an open quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniel A. Lidar , Zsolt Bihary , K. Birgitta Whaley

Scaling behavior is studied of several dominant eigenvalues of spectra of Markov matrices and the associated correlation times governing critical slowing down in models in the universality class of the two-dimensional Ising model. A scheme…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 M. P. Nightingale , H. W. J. Bloete

Time-local quantum master equations that describe open quantum systems beyond the limit of ultraweak system-bath coupling are often not of Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) form. Prominent examples are the Redfield equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Tobias Becker , André Eckardt

Master equations are increasingly popular for the simulation of time-dependent electronic transport in nanoscale devices. Several recent Markovian approaches use "extended reservoirs" - explicit degrees of freedom associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-20 Justin E. Elenewski , Daniel Gruss , Michael Zwolak

We introduce a generalized classical model of Brownian motion for describing thermal relaxation processes which is thermodynamically consistent. Applying the canonical quantization to this model, a quantum equation for the density operator…

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

Recently, the concept of k-contraction has been introduced as a promising generalization of contraction for dynamical systems. However, the study of k-contraction properties has faced significant challenges due to the reliance on complex…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-03 Andreu Cecilia , Samuele Zoboli , Daniele Astolfi , Ulysse Serres , Vincent Andrieu

The Goldstein-Taylor equations can be thought of as a simplified version of a BGK system, where the velocity variable is constricted to a discrete set of values. It is intimately related to turbulent fluid motion and the telegrapher's…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-03-17 Anton Arnold , Amit Einav , Beatrice Signorello , Tobias Wöhrer

A novel theoretical expression for the relaxation time of magnetic nanoparticles with dipolar interactions is derived from Kramers' theory, extending the Boltzmann-Gibbs framework to incorporate Tsallis statistics. The model provides a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Jean Claudio Cardoso Cerbino , Diego Muraca

We consider the Markovian Master Equation over matrix algebra $\mathbb{M}_d$, governed by periodic Lindbladian $L_t$ in standard (Kossakowski-Lindblad-Gorini-Sudarshan) form. It is shown that under simplifying assumption of commutativity,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Krzysztof Szczygielski

Completely positive transformations play an important role in the description of state changes in quantum mechanics, including the time evolution of open quantum systems. One useful tool to describe them is the so-called Choi isomorphism,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt

We study the scaling behavior of the relaxation dynamics to thermal equilibrium when a quantum system is near the quantum critical point. In particular, we investigate systems whose relaxation dynamics is described by a Lindblad master…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-11 Shuai Yin , Chung-Yu Lo , Pochung Chen