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In the study of closed many-body quantum systems one is often interested in the evolution of a subset of degrees of freedom. On many occasions it is possible to approach the problem by performing an appropriate decomposition into a bath and…

Non-Markovianity, the intricate dependence of an open quantum system on its temporal evolution history, holds tremendous implications across various scientific disciplines. However, accurately characterizing the complex non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-23 Xiang Li , Su-Xiang Lyu , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan

The developing of (non-Markovian) memory effects strongly depends on the underlying system-environment dynamics. Here we study this problem in multipartite arrangements where all subsystems are coupled to each other by non-diagonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-05 Adrián A. Budini

We develop a structural theory of information backflow in minimal non-Markovian relaxation processes within the framework of nonequilibrium statistical mechanics. The approach is based on the time-convolution (TC) and time-convolutionless…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Koichi Nakagawa

One important problem in constructing the reduced dynamics of molecular systems is the accurate modeling of the non-Markovian behavior arising from the dynamics of unresolved variables. The main complication emerges from the lack of scale…

Computational Physics · Physics 2023-02-01 Zhiyuan She , Pei Ge , Huan Lei

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

Time-local generators of open quantum systems are generically divergent at long times, even though the reduced dynamics remains regular. We construct, by analytic continuation, nonperturbative dynamical maps consistent with these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Dragomir Davidovic

Memory effects arise in many complex systems, from protein folding, to the spreading of epidemics and financial decisions. While so-called non-Markovian dynamics is common in larger systems with interacting components, observations in…

We introduce a new method to accurately and efficiently estimate the effective dynamics of collective variables in molecular simulations. Such reduced dynamics play an essential role in the study of a broad class of processes, ranging from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-28 Hadrien Vroylandt , Ludovic Goudenège , Pierre Monmarché , Fabio Pietrucci , Benjamin Rotenberg

Accurate and efficient simulation of open quantum systems remains a significant challenge, particularly for Non-Markovian dynamics. We demonstrate the profound utility of expressing the environmental correlation function as a sum of damped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-22 Gerardo Suárez , Michał Horodecki

Master equations describing open quantum dynamics are typically first order differential equations. When such dynamics brings the trajectories in state space of more than one initial state to the same point at finite instants in time, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-03 Abhaya S. Hegde , K. P. Athulya , Vijay Pathak , Jyrki Piilo , Anil Shaji

We present a basic introduction to the dynamics of open quantum systems based on local-in-time master equations. We characterize the properties of time-local generators giving rise to legitimate completely positive trace preserving quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-30 Dariusz Chruściński

This paper introduces a novel method for approximating the dynamics of a large autonomous system projected onto a fixed subspace. The core contribution is a novel recursive algorithm to construct an effective time-dependent generator that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Tommaso Grigoletto

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

Two widely used but distinct approaches to the dynamics of open quantum systems are the Nakajima-Zwanzig and time-convolutionless quantum master equation, respectively. Although both describe identical quantum evolutions with strong memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-27 Konstantin Nestmann , Valentin Bruch , Maarten Rolf Wegewijs

Stochastic renewal processes are ubiquitous across physics, biology, and the social sciences. Here, we show that continuous-time renewal dynamics can naturally produce a mixed discrete-continuous structure, with a macroscopic fraction of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ohad Vilk

We present a numerical method to compute non-equilibrium memory kernels based on experimental data or molecular dynamics simulations. The procedure uses a recasting of the non-stationary generalized Langevin equation, in which we expand the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-29 Hugues Meyer , Philipp Pelagejcev , Tanja Schilling

We have studied the non-Markovianity of dichotomously driven spin-boson model in the strong coupling regime in both memory kernel and time convolutionless master equation formulations. A strong correlation between the decay time of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-31 Arzu Kurt , Resul Eryigit

Strong coupling between a system and its environment leads to the emergence of non-Markovian dynamics, which cannot be described by a time-local master equation. One way to capture such dynamics is to use numerical real-time path integrals,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Aidan Strathearn , Brendon W. Lovett , Peter Kirton

Decoherence is often modeled using Markovian master equations that predict exponential suppression of coherence and are frequently used as effective bounds on quantum behavior in complex environments. Such descriptions, however, correspond…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-27 Ramandeep Dewan