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Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a central field for understanding how energy conversion processes occur in microscopic systems. In these systems, effects such as coherence, entanglement, and non-Markovianity play key roles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca

A quantum two-state system, weakly coupled to a heat bath, is traditionally studied in the Born-Markov regime under the secular approximation with completely positive linear master equations. Despite its success, this microscopic approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-08 Jérôme Flakowski , Maksym Osmanov , David Taj , Hans Christian Öttinger

Non-Markovian master equations describe general open quantum systems when no approximation is made. We provide the exact closed master equation for the class of Gaussian, completely positive, trace preserving, non-Markovian dynamics. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-30 L. Ferialdi

The quasi-static evolution of steady states far from equilibrium is investigated from the point of view of quantum statistical mechanics. As a concrete example of a thermodynamic system, a two-level quantum dot coupled to several reservoirs…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Walid K. Abou Salem

We present a non-equilibrium quantum master equation for a driven open quantum system in the presence of a continuously applied electromagnetic field. Starting from a driven Caldeira-Leggett (CL) model in which the external electromagnetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 M. Gabriela Boada G. , Andrea Delgado , Jose Morales E

We introduce a generalized approach to characterize the non-Markovianity of quantum dynamical maps via breakdown of monotonicity of thermodynamic functions. By adopting an entropy-based formulation of quantum thermodynamics, we use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca , F. M. de Paula , M. S. Sarandy

We show that the dynamics of a driven quantum system weakly coupled to a finite reservoir can be approximated by a sequence of Landau-Zener transitions if the level spacing of the reservoir is large enough. This approximation can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 Juzar Thingna , Massimiliano Esposito , Felipe Barra

We obtain a non-Markovian quantum master equation directly from the quantization of a non-Markovian Fokker-Planck equation describing the Brownian motion of a particle immersed in a generic environment (e.g. a non-thermal fluid). As far as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-03-25 A. O. Bolivar

A model master equation suitable for quantum computing dynamics is presented. In an ideal quantum computer (QC), a system of qubits evolves in time unitarily and, by virtue of their entanglement, interfere quantum mechanically to solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Frank Tabakin

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

We present a systematic procedure to derive a quantum master equation for thermal relaxation in real scalar field theory, expanding on the method proposed in [Koide and Nicacio, Phys. Lett. A494, 129277 (2024)]. We begin by introducing a…

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

One of the fundamental problems of quantum statistical physics is how an ideally isolated quantum system can ever reach thermal equilibrium behavior despite the unitary time evolution of quantum-mechanical systems. Here, we study, via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Marvin Lenk , Sayak Biswas , Anna Posazhennikova , Johann Kroha

We study quantum population transfer via a common intermediate state initially in thermal equilibrium with a finite temperature $T$, exhibiting a multi-level Stimulated Raman adiabatic passage structure. We consider two situations for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Wei Huang , Baohua Zhu , Wei Wu , Shan Yin , Wentao Zhang , Chu Guo

Quantum information processing has greatly increased interest in the phenomenon of environmentally-induced decoherence. The spin boson model is widely used to study the interaction between a spin-modelling a quantum particle moving in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nicholas Wynn Watkins , David Waxman

We generalize the method of third quantization to a unified exact treatment of Redfield and Lindblad master equations for open quadratic systems of n fermions in terms of diagonalization of 4n x 4n matrix. Non-equilibrium thermal driving in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Tomaz Prosen , Bojan Zunkovic

Open quantum systems interact with their environment, leading to nonunitary dynamics. We investigate the thermodynamics of linear Open Quantum Walks (OQWs), a class of quantum walks whose dynamics is entirely driven by the environment. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-30 Pedro Linck Maciel , Nadja Kolb Bernardes

Time-translation symmetry breaking is a mechanism for the emergence of non-stationary many-body phases, so-called time-crystals, in Markovian open quantum systems. Dynamical aspects of time-crystals have been extensively explored over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Federico Carollo , Igor Lesanovsky , Mauro Antezza , Gabriele De Chiara

We present a detailed study of the non-Markovian two-state system dynamics for the regime of incoherent quantum tunneling. Using perturbation theory in the system tunneling amplitude $\Delta$, and in the limit of strong system-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. H. S. Amin , Frederico Brito

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

In this article we investigate driven dissipative quantum dynamics of an ensemble of two-level systems given by a Markovian master equation with collective and non-collective dissipators. Exploiting the permutation symmetry in our model, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Konrad Merkel , Valentin Link , Kimmo Luoma , Walter T. Strunz