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Stochastic simulations are one of the cornerstones of the analysis of dynamical processes on complex networks, and are often the only accessible way to explore their behavior. The development of fast algorithms is paramount to allow…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-11-09 Christian L. Vestergaard , Mathieu Génois

The dynamics of open quantum systems is often solved by stochastic unravellings where the average over the state vector realizations reproduces the density matrix evolution. We focus on quantum jump descriptions based on the rate operator…

Small quantum systems can now be continuously monitored experimentally which allows for the reconstruction of quantum trajectories. A peculiar feature of these trajectories is the emergence of jumps between the eigenstates of the observable…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-09 Michel Bauer , Denis Bernard , Antoine Tilloy

It is shown that the exact dynamics of a composite quantum system can be represented through a pair of product states which evolve according to a Markovian random jump process. This representation is used to design a general Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinz-Peter Breuer

We introduce a quantum Monte Carlo method to simulate the reversible dynamics of correlated many-body systems. Our method is based on the Laplace transform of the time-evolution operator which, as opposed to most quantum Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Romain Chessex , Massimo Borrelli , Hans Christian Öttinger

Physical quantum systems are generically coupled to an environment, resulting in open system dynamics. A typical approach to simulating this dynamics is to propagate the density matrix of the system via the Lindblad master equation. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Marcus Meschede , Ludwig Mathey

The Gillespie algorithm and its extensions are commonly used for the simulation of chemical reaction networks. A limitation of these algorithms is that they have to process and update the system after every reaction, requiring significant…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-17 Ron Solan , Gad Getz

We show how the Gillespie algorithm, originally developed to describe coupled chemical reactions, can be used to perform numerical simulations of a granular intruder particle colliding with thermalized bath particles. The algorithm…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Talbot , P. Viot

Many physical and biological processes are stochastic in nature. Computational models and simulations of such processes are a mathematical and computational challenge. The basic stochastic simulation algorithm was published by D. Gillespie…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-13 Azi Lipshtat

The Gillespie algorithm provides statistically exact methods for simulating stochastic dynamics modelled as interacting sequences of discrete events including systems of biochemical reactions or earthquake occurrences, networks of queuing…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-02-20 Naoki Masuda , Luis E. C. Rocha

Kinetic Monte Carlo methods such as the Gillespie algorithm model chemical reactions as random walks in particle number space. The inter-reaction times are exponentially distributed under the assumption that the system is well mixed. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-01-17 Tomás Aquino , Marco Dentz

Stochastic unraveling schemes are powerful computational tools for simulating Lindblad equations, offering significant reductions in memory requirements. However, this advantage is accompanied by increased stochastic uncertainty, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-25 Yu Cao , Mingfeng He , Xiantao Li

The simulation of many-body open quantum systems is key to solving numerous outstanding problems in physics, chemistry, material science, and in the development of quantum technologies. Near-term quantum computers may bring considerable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-05 Sara Santos , Xinyu Song , Vincenzo Savona

We propose a modified non-Markovian quantum jump method to overcome the obstacle of dramatically increased trajectory number in conventional quantum trajectory simulations. In our method the trajectories are classified into the trajectory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-17 Huanyuan Zhang , Jiasen Jin

Non-Hermitian quantum systems exhibit unique properties and hold significant promise for diverse applications, yet their dynamical simulation poses a particular challenge due to intrinsic openness and non-unitary evolution. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Xiaogang Li , Kecheng Liu , Qiming Ding

We introduce a method to simulate open quantum many-body dynamics by combining time-dependent variational Monte Carlo (tVMC) with quantum trajectory techniques. Our approach unravels the Lindblad master equation into an ensemble of…

Simulating physical systems on quantum devices is one of the most promising applications of quantum technology. Current quantum approaches to simulating open quantum systems are still practically challenging on NISQ-era devices, because…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-09 Joseph Peetz , Scott E. Smart , Spyros Tserkis , Prineha Narang

In the study of open quantum systems, one typically obtains the decoherence dynamics by solving a master equation. The master equation is derived using knowledge of some basic properties of the system, the environment and their interaction:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 Hefeng Wang , S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

The cost of classical simulations of quantum many-body dynamics is often determined by the amount of entanglement in the system. In this paper, we study entanglement in stochastic quantum trajectory approaches that solve master equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Tatiana Vovk , Hannes Pichler

Stochastic methods with quantum jumps are often used to solve open quantum system dynamics. Moreover, they provide insight into fundamental topics, as the role of measurements in quantum mechanics and the description of non-Markovian memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-18 Andrea Smirne , Matteo Caiaffa , Jyrki Piilo