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Markovian open quantum systems are governed by the Lindblad master equation where the dissipation contains two parts, i.e., the anti-Hermitian operator and the quantum jumps, which share a common dissipation rate. We generalize the Lindblad…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Xu-Ke Gu , Li-Zhou Tan , Franco Nori , J. Q. You

Quantum master equations are commonly used to model the dynamics of open quantum systems, but their accuracy is rarely compared with the analytical solution of exactly solvable models. In this work, we perform such a comparison for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Zihan Xia , Juan Garcia-Nila , Daniel Lidar

Stochastic unravelings provide a useful way to represent open quantum system dynamics in terms of pure state realizations, and have been widely studied both from a fundamental and from a computational point of view. They were initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Federico Settimo , Jyrki Piilo

We reconsider the spinfoam dynamics that has been recently introduced, in the generalized Kaminski-Kisielowski-Lewandowski (KKL) version where the foam is not dual to a triangulation. We study the Euclidean as well as the Lorentzian case.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-06-27 You Ding , Muxin Han , Carlo Rovelli

The famous Davies-GKSL secular Markovian master equation is tremendously successful in approximating the evolution of open quantum systems in terms of just a few parameters. However, the fully-secular Davies-GKSL equation fails to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Marek Winczewski , Antonio Mandarino , Gerardo Suarez , Michał Horodecki , Robert Alicki

We derive a Markovian master equation for driven open quantum systems based on the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariants theory, which is available for arbitrary driving protocols.The role of the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariants is to help us bypass the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 S. L. Wu , X. L. Huang , X. X. Yi

Consider the generalized Kuramoto-Sivashinsky (gKS) equation. It is a model prototype for a wide variety of physical systems, from flame-front propagation, and more general front propagation in reaction-diffusion systems, to interface…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 M. Schmuck , M. Pradas , G. A. Pavliotis , S. Kalliadasis

We establish new convergence rates for the Moment-Sum-of-Squares (Moment-SoS) relaxations for the Generalized Moment Problem (GMP) with countable moment constraints on vectors of measures, under dual optimum attainment, $S$-fullness and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Lucas Gamertsfelder , Bernard Mourrain

This note is devoted to a simple method for proving hypocoercivity of the solutions of a kinetic equation involving a linear time relaxation operator, i.e. the construction of an adapted Lyapunov functional satisfying a Gronwall-type…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-12-07 Jean Dolbeault , Clément Mouhot , Christian Schmeiser

In this paper we demonstrate that two commonly used phenomenological post-Markovian quantum master equations can be derived without using any perturbative approximation. A system coupled to an environment characterized by self-classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-03 Adrian A. Budini

We derive Markovian master equations of single and interacting harmonic systems in different scenarios, including strong internal coupling. By comparing the dynamics resulting from the corresponding Markovian master equations with exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-18 Ángel Rivas , A. Douglas K. Plato , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

The time-convolutionless (TCL) non-Markovian master equation was generally thought to break down at finite time due to its singularity and fail to produce the asymptotic behavior in strong coupling regime. However, in this paper, we show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-23 Yang Li , Bin Luo , Jian-Wei Zhang , Hong Guo

We deduce a class of non-Markovian completely positive master equations which describe a system in a composite bipartite environment, consisting of a Markovian reservoir and additional stationary unobserved degrees of freedom that modulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian A. Budini , Henning Schomerus

The spectral properties of positive maps are pivotal for understanding the dynamics of quantum systems interacting with their environment. Furthermore, central problems in quantum information such as the characterization of entanglement can…

The relaxation to equilibrium of lattice systems with long-range interactions is investigated. The timescales involved depend polynomially on the system size, potentially leading to diverging equilibration times. A kinetic equation for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 T. M. Rocha Filho , R. Bachelard

A systematic first-order correction to the standard Markov master equation for open quantum systems interacting with a bosonic bath is presented. It extends the Markov Lindblad master equation to the more general case of non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ting Yu , Lajos Diosi , Nicolas Gisin , Walter T. Strunz

In this work we consider the master equations for composite open quantum systems. We provide purely algebraic formulae for terms of perturbation series defining such equations. We also give conditions under which the Bogolubov-van Hove…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-07 A. Yu. Karasev , A. E. Teretenkov

We investigate the long-time behavior of quantum N-level systems that are coupled to a Markovian environment and subject to periodic driving. As our main result, we obtain a general algebraic condition ensuring that all solutions of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 Paul Menczel , Kay Brandner

We study the Master equation with time--dependent coefficients, a linear kinetic equation for the Markov chains or for the monomolecular chemical kinetics. For the solution of this equation a path summation formula is proved. This formula…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-02-03 A. N. Gorban

Exponential relaxation to equilibrium is a typical property of physical systems, but inhomogeneities are known to distort the exponential relaxation curve, leading to a wide variety of relaxation patterns. Power law relaxation is related to…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Mark M. Meerschaert , Bruno Toaldo