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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

Realistic quantum mechanical systems are always exposed to an external environment. The presence of the environment often gives rise to a Markovian process in which the system loses information to its surroundings. However, many quantum…

Non-Markovian quantum processes exhibit different memory effects when measured in different ways; an unambiguous characterization of memory length requires accounting for the sequence of instruments applied to probe the system dynamics.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-11 Philip Taranto , Simon Milz , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

Understanding how external driving and dissipation jointly influence the dynamics of open quantum systems is essential for advancing the study of non-equilibrium quantum phenomena and developing quantum technologies. The present study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Roie Dann

We study discrete quantum dynamics where single evolution step consists of unitary system transformation followed by decoherence via coupling to an environment. Often non-Markovian memory effects are attributed to structured environments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Kimmo Luoma , Jyrki Piilo

A quantum process is called non-Markovian when memory effects take place during its evolution. Quantum non-Markovianity is a phenomenon typically associated with the information back-flow from the environment to the principal system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Spyros Tserkis , Kade Head-Marsden , Prineha Narang

Non-Markovianity has recently attracted large interest due to significant advances in its characterization and its exploitation for quantum information processing. However, up to now, only non-Markovian regimes featuring environment to…

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

We study and compare the sensitivity of multiple non-Markovianity indicators for a qubit subjected to general phase-covariant noise. For each of the indicators, we derive analytical conditions to detect the dynamics as non-Markovian. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-21 Jose Teittinen , Henri Lyyra , Boris Sokolov , Sabrina Maniscalco

The emergence of memory is a hallmark feature of non-Markovian dynamics. However, the type of memory -- classical or quantum -- required to realize certain dynamics remains unknown. We study the quantum homogenizer as a minimal model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Alexander Yosifov , Aditya Iyer , Vlatko Vedral , Jinzhao Sun

We study a class of multipartite open quantum dynamics for systems of arbitrary number of qubits. The non-Markovian quantum master equation can involve arbitrary single or multipartite and time-dependent dissipative coupling mechanisms,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-09 Adrián A. Budini , Juan P. Garrahan

The initial state of a quantum system can significantly influence its future dynamics, especially in non-Markovain quantum processes due to the environmental memory effects. Based on a previous work of ours, we propose a method to quantify…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-22 S. C. Hou , G. Q. Shuai , X. Y. Zhang , J. Shen , X. X. Yi

We present a formalism for studying the behaviour of quantum systems coupled to nonequilibrium environments exhibiting nonGaussian fluctuations. We discuss the role of a qubit as a detector of the statistics of environmental fluctuations,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Clive Emary

We study non-Markovianity as backflow of information in two-qubit systems. We consider a setting where, by changing the distance between the qubits, one can interpolate between independent reservoir and common reservoir scenarios. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 C. Addis , P. Haikka , S. McEndoo , C. Macchiavello , S. Maniscalco

We review the most recent developments in the theory of open quantum systems focusing on situations in which the reservoir memory effects, due to long-lasting and non-negligible correlations between system and environment, play a crucial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-11 Pinja Haikka , Sabrina Maniscalco

Stochastic resetting describes dynamics which are reinitialized to a reference state at random times. These protocols are attracting significant interest: they can stabilize nonequilibrium stationary states, generate correlations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Federico Carollo , Sascha Wald

In this paper, we study both open-loop control and closed-loop measurement feedback control of non-Markovian quantum dynamics arising from the interaction between a quantum system and its environment. We use the widely studied cavity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Haijin Ding , Nina H. Amini , John E. Gough , Guofeng Zhang

We study the non-Markovian quantum interference phenomenon of a multi-state atomic system coupled to a bosonic dissipative environment by using the exact master equations derived in this paper. Two examples involving four-level systems with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-23 Yusui Chen , J. Q. You , Ting Yu

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

The nonequilibrium dynamics of a small quantum system coupled to a dissipative environment is studied. We show that (1) the oscillatory dynamics close to a coherent-to-incoherent transition is surprisingly different from the one of the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-03-14 D. M. Kennes , O. Kashuba , M. Pletyukhov , H. Schoeller , V. Meden