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Motivated by a geometric decomposition of the vector field associated with the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) equation for finite-level open quantum systems, we propose a generalization of the recently introduced contact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Florio M. Ciaglia , Hans Cruz , Giuseppe Marmo

We study two-body non-Hermitian physics in the context of an open dissipative system depicted by the Lindblad master equation. Adopting a minimal lattice model of a handful of interacting fermions with single-particle dissipation, we show…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-19 Peize Ding , Wei Yi

This topical review article reports rapid progress on the generalization and application of entanglement in non-Hermitian free-fermion quantum systems. We begin by examining the realization of non-Hermitian quantum systems through the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-14 Li-Mei Chen , Yao Zhou , Shuai A. Chen , Peng Ye

Derivation of a quantum master equation for a system weakly coupled to a bath which takes into account nonsecular effects, but nevertheless has the mathematically correct Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan form (in particular, it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Anton Trushechkin

Non-Hermitian Hamiltonians provide an alternative perspective on the dynamics of quantum and classical systems coupled non-conservatively to an environment. Once primarily an interest of mathematical physicists, the theory of non-Hermitian…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-12-20 Hilary M. Hurst , Benedetta Flebus

By exploiting the peculiarities of a recently introduced formalism for describing open quantum systems (the Parametric Representation with Environmental Coherent States) we derive an equation of motion for the reduced density operator of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Giovanni Spaventa , Paola Verrucchi

We derive an exact master equation that captures the dynamics of a quadratic quantum system linearly coupled to a Gaussian environment of the same statistics: the Gaussian Master Equation (GME). Unlike previous approaches, our formulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Antonio D'Abbruzzo , Vittorio Giovannetti , Vasco Cavina

We investigate departures from the Hamiltonian dynamics such as the quantum decoherence in a supersymmetric quantum system due to its interaction with the environment. The effective description is given by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 A. A. Andrianov , M. V. Ioffe , O. O. Novikov

A nonlinear master equation is derived, reflecting properly the entropy of open quantum systems. In contrast to linear alternatives, its equilibrium solution is exactly the canonical Gibbs density matrix. The corresponding nonlinear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-08 Roumen Tsekov

By using the effective Hamiltonian approach, we present a self-consistent framework for the analysis of geometric phases and dynamically stable decoherence-free subspaces in open systems. Comparisons to the earlier works are made. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. L. Huang , X. X. Yi , Chunfeng Wu , X. L. Feng , S. X. Yu , C. H. OH

We develop an exact framework to describe the non-Markovian dynamics of an open quantum system interacting with an environment modeled by a generalized spectral density function. The approach relies on mapping the initial system onto an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Graeme Pleasance , Barry M. Garraway , Francesco Petruccione

We investigate measures of non-Markovianity in open quantum systems governed by Gaussian free fermionic dynamics. Standard indicators of non-Markovian behavior, such as the BLP and LFS measures, are revisited in this context. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Giuliano Chiriacò

In this work we present a general formalism to treat non-Hermitian and noncommutative Hamiltonians. This is done employing the phase-space formalism of quantum mechanics, which allows to write a set of robust maps connecting the Hamitonians…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-15 Jonas F. G. Santos , Fabricio. S. Luiz , Oscar. S. Duarte , Miled. H. Y. Moussa

A non-Hermitian generalized oscillator model, generally known as the Swanson model, has been studied in the framework of R-deformed Heisenberg algebra. The non-Hermitian Hamiltonian is diagonalized by generalized Bogoliubov transformation.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Rajkumar Roychoudhury , Barnana Roy , Partha Pratim Dube

We extend the notion of the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH) to Open Quantum Systems governed by the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) Master Equation. We present evidence that the eigenstates of non-equilibrium steady…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-10 Sanjay Moudgalya , Trithep Devakul , D. P. Arovas , S. L. Sondhi

By extending the mean-field Hamiltonian to include nonhermitian operators, the master equations for fermions and bosons can be derived. The derived equations reduce to the Markoff master equation in the low-density limit and to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. F. Huang , K. -N. Huang

The construction of exactly-solvable models has recently been advanced by considering integrable $T\bar{T}$ deformations and related Hamiltonian deformations in quantum mechanics. We introduce a broader class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Apollonas S. Matsoukas-Roubeas , Federico Roccati , Julien Cornelius , Zhenyu Xu , Aurelia Chenu , Adolfo del Campo

The energy spectra of two different quantum systems are paired through supersymmetric algorithms. One of the systems is Hermitian and the other is characterized by a complex-valued potential, both of them with only real eigenvalues in their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-04 Kevin Zelaya , Sara Cruz y Cruz , Oscar Rosas-Ortiz

Non-Hermitian disordered systems have emerged as a central arena in modern physics, with ramifications spanning condensed matter, quantum, statistical, and high energy contexts. The same principles also underlie phenomena beyond physics,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-24 Kohei Kawabata , Shinsei Ryu

The complete positivity (CP) of a quantum dynamical map (QDM) is, in general, difficult to show when its master equation (ME) does not conform to the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) form. The GKSL ME describes the Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Akane Watanabe , Takayuki Suzuki , Makoto Unoki , Hiromichi Nakazato