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This paper extends the previously reported theory of dissipation pathways [J. Chem. Phys. 160, 214111 (2024)] to incorporate off-diagonal subsystem-bath coupling, which is often required to model molecular systems where the environment…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Ignacio Gustin , Chang Woo Kim , Ignacio Franco

One of the greatest challenges in quantum information processing is the coherent control over quantum systems with an ever increasing number of particles. Within this endeavor, the harnessing of many-body entanglement against the effects of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-03 Leandro Aolita , Fernando de Melo , Luiz Davidovich

The dissipative dynamics of many-electron systems interacting with a thermal environment has remained a long-standing challenge within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Recently, the formal foundations of open quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 David G. Tempel , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

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

We discuss mapping the Bloch-Redfield master-equation to Lindblad form and then unravelling the resulting evolution into a stochastic Schr\"odinger equation according to the quantum-jump method. We give two approximations under which this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Nicolas Vogt , Jan Jeske , Jared H. Cole

We study the dynamics of a quantum system whose interaction with an environment is described by a collision model, i.e. the open dynamics is modelled through sequences of unitary interactions between the system and the individual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Steve Campbell , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma , Bassano Vacchini

A simple collision model is employed to introduce elementary concepts of open system dynamics of quantum systems. In particular, within the framework of collision models we introduce the quantum analogue of thermalization process called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Mario Ziman , Vladimír Bužek

The accurate description of the interaction of a quantum system with a its environment is a challenging problem ubiquitous across all areas of physics, and lies at the foundation of quantum mechanics theory. Here we pioneer a new strategy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Hideaki Takahashi , Raffaele Borrelli

We develop a theory to describe dynamics of a non-stationary open quantum system interacting with a hybrid environment, which includes high-frequency and low-frequency noise components. One part of the system-bath interaction is treated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-08 Anatoly Yu. Smirnov , Mohammad H. Amin

The coupling between the states of a system and the continuum into which it is embedded, induces correlations that are especially large in the short time scale. These correlations cannot be calculated by using a statistical or…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Okołowicz , M. Płoszajczak , I. Rotter

Quantum mechanics predicts the existence of correlations between composite systems -- multipartite entanglement (ME) -- that, while puzzling our physical intuition, enable technologies not accessible in a classical world. Notwithstanding,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Luca Pezze , Yan Li , Weidong Li , Augusto Smerzi

It is well known that many operations in quantum information processing depend largely on a special kind of quantum correlation, that is, entanglement. However, there are also quantum tasks that display the quantum advantage without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Jin-Shi Xu , Xiao-Ye Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Cheng-Jie Zhang , Xu-Bo Zou , Guang-Can Guo

A central aim of physics is to describe the dynamics of physical systems. Schrodinger's equation does this for isolated quantum systems. Describing the time evolution of a quantum system that interacts with its environment, in its most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-16 Kavan Modi

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

Thermodynamics entails a set of mathematical conditions on quantum Markovian dynamics. In particular, strict energy conservation between the system and environment implies that the dissipative dynamical map commutes with the unitary system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Roie Dann , Ronnie Kosloff

We investigate in parallel two common pictures used to describe quantum systems interacting with their surrounding environment, i.e., the stochastic Hamiltonian description, where the environment is implicitly included in the fluctuating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Lorenzo Bernazzani , Balázs Gulácsi , Guido Burkard

In a recent comment, Lee and Yeo show that the Gibbs state is not generically an exact steady state of the Universal Lindblad Equation (ULE) that we developed in Phys. Rev. B 102, 115109 (2020). This non-controversial observation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Frederik Nathan , Mark S. Rudner

We critically examine the role that correlations established between a system and fragments of its environment play in characterising the ensuing dynamics. We employ a class of dephasing models where the state of the initial environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Nina Megier , Andrea Smirne , Steve Campbell , Bassano Vacchini

We provide an in-depth and thorough treatment of the validity of the rotating-wave approximation (RWA) in an open quantum system. We find that when it is introduced after tracing out the environment, all timescales of the open system are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-04 Chris Fleming , N. I. Cummings , Charis Anastopoulos , B. L. Hu

We study dynamics of quantum open systems, paying special attention to those aspects of their evolution which are relevant to the transition from quantum to classical. We begin with a discussion of the conditional dynamics of simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Juan Pablo Paz , Wojciech Hubert Zurek