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In open quantum systems, the Liouvillian gap characterizes the relaxation time toward the steady state. However, accurately computing this quantity is notoriously difficult due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Xu-Dan Xie , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Dan-Bo Zhang

Dynamics in correlated quantum matter is a hard problem, as its exact solution generally involves a computational effort that grows exponentially with the number of constituents. While a remarkable progress has been witnessed in recent…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-28 Roberto Verdel , Markus Schmitt , Yi-Ping Huang , Petr Karpov , Markus Heyl

We introduce a new discrete-time variational principle inspired by the quantum clock originally proposed by Feynman, and use it to write down quantum evolution as a ground state eigenvalue problem. The construction allows one to apply…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Jarrod R. McClean , John A. Parkhill , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Ab-initio simulations of multiple heavy quarks propagating in a Quark-Gluon Plasma are computationally difficult to perform due to the large dimension of the space of density matrices. This work develops machine learning algorithms to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Joshua Lin , Di Luo , Xiaojun Yao , Phiala E. Shanahan

Recent studies have highlighted the combination of tensor network methods and the stabilizer formalism as a very effective framework for simulating quantum many-body systems, encompassing areas from ground state to time evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Xiangjian Qian , Jiale Huang , Mingpu Qin

Extending our previous work on time optimal quantum state evolution, we formulate a variational principle for the time optimal unitary operation, which has direct relevance to quantum computation. We demonstrate our method with three…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Alberto Carlini , Akio Hosoya , Tatsuhiko Koike , Yosuke Okudaira

The Lindblad master equation is a fundamental tool for describing the evolution of open quantum systems, but its computational complexity poses a significant challenge, especially for large systems. This article introduces a stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Sayak Adhikari , Roi Baer

Classical simulation of open quantum system dynamics remains challenging due to the exponential growth of the Hilbert space, the need to accurately capture dissipation and decoherence, and the added complexity of memory effects in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-31 Sujay Mondal , Siddhartha Dutta , Abhijit Bandyopadhyay

In this note, we develop a framework to describe open quantum systems in the Heisenberg picture, i.e., via time evolving operator algebras. We point out the incompleteness of the previous proposals in this regard. We argue that a complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Nachiket Karve , R. Loganayagam

The decay process of the schematic one-dimensional three-body system is considered. A time-dependent approach is used in combination with a one-dimensional three-body model, which is composed of a heavier core nucleus and two nucleons, with…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-04-12 Tomohiro Oishi , Lorenzo Fortunato

In the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems, a master equation for the quantum harmonic oscillator interacting with a dissipative environment, in particular with a thermal bath, is derived for the case when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Isar , A. Sandulescu , W. Scheid

We introduce Neural Tensor Network States ($\nu$TNS), a variational many-body wave-function ansatz that integrates deep neural networks with tensor-network architectures. In the $\nu$TNS framework, a neural network serves as a disentangler…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Chaohui Fan , Bo Zhan , Yuntian Gu , Tong Liu , Yantao Wu , Mingpu Qin , Dingshun Lv , Tao Xiang

For open quantum systems,a short-time evolution is usually well described by the effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,while long-time dynamics requires the Lindblad master equation,in which the Liouvillian superoperators characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Jilian Zhong , Xiaoyue Li

We study the quantum dynamics of many-body systems, in the presence of dissipation due to the interaction with the environment, under Kibble-Zurek (KZ) protocols in which one Hamiltonian parameter is slowly, and linearly in time, driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

We introduce and investigate an open many-body quantum system in which kinetically constrained coherent and dissipative processes compete. The form of the incoherent dissipative dynamics is inspired by that of epidemic spreading or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-12 Federico Carollo , Markus Gnann , Gabriele Perfetto , Igor Lesanovsky

The theoretical analysis of the Adiabatic Quantum Computation protocol presents several challenges resulting from the difficulty of simulating, with classical resources, the unitary dynamics of a large quantum device. We present here a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Giuseppe Carleo , Bela Bauer , Matthias Troyer

Excited states of many-body quantum systems play a key role in a wide range of physical and chemical phenomena. Unlike ground states, for which many efficient variational techniques exist, there are few ways to systematically construct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 D. A. Millar , L. W. Anderson , E. Altamura , O. Wallis , M. E. Sahin , J. Crain , S. J. Thomson

The optimal control problem for open quantum systems can be formulated as a time-dependent Lindbladian that is parameterized by a number of time-dependent control variables. Given an observable and an initial state, the goal is to tune the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-30 Wenhao He , Tongyang Li , Xiantao Li , Zecheng Li , Chunhao Wang , Ke Wang

Quantum systems coupled to (non-)Markovian environments attract increasing attention due to their peculiar physical properties. Exciting prospects such as unconventional non-equilibrium phases beyond the Mermin-Wagner limit, or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Philipp Westhoff , Mattia Moroder , Ulrich Schollwöck , Sebastian Paeckel

We present a new nonperturbative method to deal with the time-dependent quantum many-body problem, which is an extension of Wegner's flow equations to time-dependent Hamiltonians. The formalism provides a scaling procedure for the set of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-03-07 C. Tomaras , S. Kehrein