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The Lindblad master equation is one of the main approaches to open quantum systems. While it has been widely applied in the context of condensed matter systems to study properties of steady states in the limit of long times, the actual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-07 Tjark Heitmann , Jonas Richter , Jacek Herbrych , Jochen Gemmer , Robin Steinigeweg

The Lindblad equation is commonly used for studying quantum dynamics in open systems that cannot be completely isolated from an environment, relevant to a broad variety of research fields, such as atomic physics, materials science, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Zhu Ruan , Roi Baer

The Lindblad equation generalizes the Schr\"{o}dinger equation to quantum systems that undergo dissipative dynamics. The quantum simulation of Lindbladian dynamics is therefore non-unitary, preventing a naive application of state-of-the-art…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Matthew Pocrnic , Dvira Segal , Nathan Wiebe

The dynamics of a typical open quantum system, namely a quantum Brownian particle in a harmonic potential, is studied focussing on its non-Markovian regime. Both an analytic approach and a stochastic wave function approach are used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Maniscalco , J. Piilo , F. Intravaia , F. Petruccione , A. Messina

For the efficient simulation of open quantum systems we often use quantum jump trajectories given by pure states that evolve stochastically to unravel the dynamics of the underlying master equation. In the Markovian regime, when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Tobias Becker , Ché Netzer , André Eckardt

We propose a numerical technique based on a combination of short-iterative Lanczos and exact diagonalization methods, suitable for simulating the time evolution of the reduced density matrix of a single qubit interacting with an…

We derive a nonperturbative bound on the distance between evolutions of open quantum systems described by time-dependent generators. We show how this result can be employed to provide an explicit upper bound on the error of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Daniel Burgarth , Paolo Facchi , Giovanni Gramegna , Kazuya Yuasa

Abstract Simulating mixed-state evolution in open quantum systems is crucial for various chemical physics, quantum optics, and computer science applications. These simulations typically follow the Lindblad master equation dynamics. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-23 Sayak Adhikari , Roi Baer

The precise characterization of dynamics in open quantum systems often presents significant challenges, leading to the introduction of various approximations to simplify a model. One commonly used strategy involves Markovian approximations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Zhao-Ming Wang , S. L. Wu , Mark S. Byrd , Lian-Ao Wu

Starting from a microscopic description of weak system-bath interactions, we derive from first principles a quantum master equation that does not rely on the well-known rotating wave approximation. This includes generic many-body systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Matteo Scandi , Álvaro M. Alhambra

Non-Markovian effects are important in modeling the behavior of open quantum systems arising in solid-state physics, quantum optics as well as in study of biological and chemical systems. The non-Markovian environment is often approximated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Rahul Trivedi , Daniel Malz , J. Ignacio Cirac

We develop from first principles Markovian master equations suited for studying the time evolution of a system evolving adiabatically while coupled weakly to a thermal bath. We derive two sets of equations in the adiabatic limit, one using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-03 Tameem Albash , Sergio Boixo , Daniel A. Lidar , Paolo Zanardi

Superconducting qubits coupled to meandering transmission lines or surface acoustic waves may realize giant artificial atoms, whose spatially separated coupling points give rise to long-lived non-Markovian dynamics. Previous studies were…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Mei Yu , Walter T. Strunz , Stefan Nimmrichter

High fidelity models, which support accurate device characterization and correctly account for environmental effects, are crucial to the engineering of scalable quantum technologies. As it ensures positivity of the density matrix, one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 S. N. A. Duffus , V. M. Dwyer , M. J. Everitt

We examine the effectiveness of Lindblad master equation in capturing the short-time dynamics of entanglement and purity in open quantum systems. Focusing on two interacting two-level systems interacting with a larger environment, we…

The majority of quantum open system models in the literature are simplistic in the sense that they only explicitly account for that part of the environment that directly interacts with the system of interest. A quantum open system with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Gallis

The Monte Carlo wave function method or the quantum trajectory/jump approach is a powerful tool to study dissipative dynamics governed by the Markovian master equation, in particular for high-dimensional systems and when it is difficult to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. L. Huang , H. Y. Sun , X. X. Yi

We revisit the Born-Markov approximation for an open quantum system by considering a microscopic model of the bath, namely, the Bose-Hubbard chain in the parameter region where it is chaotic in the sense of Quantum Chaos. It is shown that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Andrey R. Kolovsky

Markovian master equations, often called Liouvillians or Lindbladians, are used to describe decay and decoherence of a quantum system induced by that system's environment. While a natural environment is detrimental to fragile quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Victor V. Albert

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