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We characterize the dynamical behavior of continuous-time, Markovian quantum systems with respect to a subsystem of interest. Markovian dynamics describes a wide class of open quantum systems of relevance to quantum information processing,…

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Quantum systems interacting with environments tend to have their information lost from transmission through the correlations generated with the degrees of freedom of the environment. For situations where we have non- Markovian environments,…

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Investigations of quantum and mesoscopic thermodynamics force one to answer two fundamental questions associated with the foundations of statistical mechanics: (i) how does macroscopic irreversibility emerge from microscopic reversibility?…

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Non-Markovian dynamics is central to quantum information processing, as memory effects strongly influence coherence preservation, metrology, and communication. In this work, we investigate the role of stochastic system--bath couplings in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Mehboob Rashid , Rayees A Mala , Saima Bashir , Muzaffar Qadir Lone

A new approach to the theory and simulation of the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is presented. It is based on identification of a parameter which is uniformly small on wide time intervals: the occupation of the virtual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-05 Evgeny A. Polyakov , Alexey N. Rubtsov

The simulation of quantum processes is a key goal for the grand programme aiming at grounding quantum technologies as the way to explore complex phenomena that are inaccessible through standard, classical calculators. Some interesting steps…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Andrea Chiuri , Chiara Greganti , Laura Mazzola , Mauro Paternostro , Paolo Mataloni

Quantum systems are invariably open, evolving under surrounding influences rather than in isolation. Standard open quantum system methods eliminate all information on the environmental state to yield a tractable description of the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-26 Jake Iles-Smith , Neill Lambert , Ahsan Nazir

Using random matrices, we study the reduced dynamics of a two level system interacting with a generic environment. In the weak coupling limit, the result can be obtained directly from known results for purity decay, and result in Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-01 Nephtalí Garrido , Thomas Gorin , Carlos Pineda

Optimal control theory is implemented with fully converged hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) describing the time evolution of an open system density matrix strongly coupled to the bath in a spin-boson model. The populations of the…

Collision models provide a simple and versatile setting to capture the dynamics of open quantum systems. The standard approach to thermalisition in this setting involves an environment of independent and identically-prepared thermal qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ronan McElvogue , Andrew K. Mitchell , Gabriel T. Landi , Steve Campbell

We study the non-Markovianity of the dynamics of open quantum systems focusing on the cases of independent and common environmental interactions. We investigate the degree of non-Markovianity quantified by two distinct measures proposed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-22 Felipe F. Fanchini , Goktug Karpat , Leonardo K. Castelano , Daniel Z. Rossatto

We present a Bayesian algorithm to identify generators of open quantum system dynamics, described by a Lindblad master equation, that are compatible with measured experimental data. The algorithm, based on a Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Stewart Wallace , Yoann Altmann , Brian D. Gerardot , Erik M. Gauger , Cristian Bonato

Living systems are open nonequilibrium systems that continuously exchange energy, matter, and information with their environments, leading to stochastic dynamics with memory and active fluctuations. In this study, we develop a non-Markovian…

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We analyze a system coupled to a bath of independent harmonic oscillators. We transform the bath in chain structure by solving an inverse eigenvalue problem. We solve the equations of motion for the collective variables defined by this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Ferialdi , D. Dürr

The degree of non-Markovianity of quantum processes has been characterized in several different ways in the recent literature. However, the relationship between the non-Markovian behavior and the flow of information between the system and…

Engineering quantum systems offers great opportunities both technologically and scientifically for communication, computation, and simulation. The construction and operation of large scale quantum information devices presents a grand…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-30 Sophie G. Schirmer , Daniel K. L. Oi , Weiwei Zhou , Erling Gong , Ming Zhang

We present a general theory of non-Markovian dynamics for open quantum systems. We explore the non-Markovian dynamics by connecting the exact master equations with the non-equilibirum Green functions. Environmental back-actions are fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wei-Min Zhang , Ping-Yuan Lo , Heng-Na Xiong , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Franco Nori

We study the quantum dynamics of a many-body system subject to coherent evolution and coupled to a non-Markovian bath. We propose a technique to unravel the non-Markovian dynamics in terms of quantum jumps, a connection that was so far only…

We investigate what a snapshot of a quantum evolution - a quantum channel reflecting open system dynamics - reveals about the underlying continuous time evolution. Remarkably, from such a snapshot, and without imposing additional…

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