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We investigate the effect of counter-rotating-wave terms on the non-Markovianity in quantum open systems by employing the hierarchical equations of motion in the framework of the non-Markovian quantum state diffusion approach. As…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Wei Wu , Maoxin Liu

We address the problem of quantifying the non-Markovian character of quantum time-evolutions of general systems in contact with an environment. We introduce two different measures of non-Markovianity that exploit the specific traits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-29 Ángel Rivas , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

Characterizing non-Markovian quantum dynamics is essential for accurately modeling open quantum systems, particularly in near-term quantum technologies. In this work, we develop a structure-preserving approach to characterizing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-31 Sohail Reddy

It is believed that an isolated and far-from-equilibrium quantum many-body system should try to attain equilibrium via a mechanism whereby any given subsystem acts as an open quantum system that is coupled to an environment, which is the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Aditya Banerjee

We propose a simple structure for stationary non-Markovian quantum chains in the framework of collisional dynamics of open quantum systems. To this end, we modify the microscopic Markovian system--reservoir model, consider multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 András Bodor , Lajos Diósi , Zsófia Kallus , Thomas Konrad

Since it's rediscovery in the twentieth century, the Mpemba effect, where a far-from-equilibrium state may relax faster than a state closer to equilibrium, has been extensively studied in classical systems and has recently received…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 David J. Strachan , Archak Purkayastha , Stephen R. Clark

Non-Markovian features of a system evolution, stemming from memory effects, may be utilized to transfer, storage, and revive basic quantum properties of the system states. It is well known that an atom qubit undergoes non-Markovian dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Ali Mortezapour , Mahdi Ahmadi Borji , DaeKil Park , Rosario Lo Franco

The definition of memory in operational approaches to quantum non-Markovianity depends on the statistical properties of different sets of outcomes related to successive measurement processes performed over the system of interest. Using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Mariano Bonifacio , Adrián A. Budini

We establish a generic method to analyze the time evolution of open quantum many-body systems. Our approach is based on a variational integration of the quantum master equation describing the dynamics and naturally connects to a variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Vincent R. Overbeck , Hendrik Weimer

We revise fundamental concepts in the dynamics of open quantum systems in the light of modern developments in the field. Our aim is to present a unified approach to the quantum evolution of open systems that incorporates the concepts and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 Ángel Rivas , Susana F. Huelga

We determine the total state dynamics of a dephasing open quantum system using the standard environment of harmonic oscillators. Of particular interest are random unitary approaches to the same reduced dynamics and system-environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Ansgar Pernice , Julius Helm , Walter T. Strunz

We investigate memory effects in non-Markovian dynamics on superconducting quantum processors provided by IBM Quantum. We use a collision-model approach to implement suitable single- and two-qubit dynamics with a gate-based quantum circuit.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Charlotte Bäcker , Krishna Palaparthy , Walter T. Strunz

Here we study the impact of non-Markovian evolution on prominent characteristics of quantum thermodynamics, such as ergotropy and power. These are benchmarked by the behavior of the quantum speed limit time. We make use of both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

A universal definition of non-Markovianity for open systems dynamics is proposed. It is extended from the classical definition to the quantum realm by showing that a `transition' from the Markov to the non-Markov regime occurs when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-07 N. Lo Gullo , I. Sinayskiy , Th. Busch , F. Petruccione

Open quantum systems exhibit a range of novel out-of-equilibrium behavior due to the interplay between coherent quantum dynamics and dissipation. Of particular interest in these systems are driven, dissipative transitions, the emergence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 H. F. H. Cheung , Y. S. Patil , M. Vengalattore

Non-Markovian effects in open quantum system dynamics usually manifest backflow of information from the environment to the system, indicating complete-positive divisibility breaking of the dynamics. We provide a criterion for witnessing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-04 Bivas Mallick , Saheli Mukherjee , Ananda G. Maity , A. S. Majumdar

Mixing dynamical maps describing open quantum systems can lead from Markovian to non-Markovian processes. Being surprising and counter-intuitive, this result has been used as argument against characterization of non-Markovianity in terms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Giulio Amato , Bassano Vacchini

We introduce a general construction of master equations with memory kernel whose solutions are given by completely positive trace preserving maps. These dynamics going beyond the Lindblad paradigm are obtained with reference to classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-18 Bassano Vacchini

We develop a notion of stochastic quantum trajectories. First, we construct a basis set of trajectories, called elementary trajectories, and go on to show that any quantum dynamical process, including those that are non-Markovian, can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-20 Fattah Sakuldee , Simon Milz , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

To explain aspects of the quantum-to-classical transition, quantum Darwinism explores the fact that, due to interactions between a quantum open system and its surrounding environment, information about the system can be spread redundantly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 S. M. Oliveira , A. L. de Paula , R. C. Drumond