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Quantum plasma physics is a rapidly evolving research field with a very inter-disciplinary scope of potential applications, ranging from nano-scale science in condensed matter to the vast scales of astrophysical objects. The theoretical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 Shabbir A. Khan , Michael Bonitz

Master equations describe the quantum dynamics of open systems interacting with an environment. They play an increasingly important role in understanding the emergence of semiclassical behavior and the generation of entropy, both being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hans-Thomas Elze

Studies of strongly nonlinear dynamical systems such as turbulent flows call for superior computational prowess. With the advent of quantum computing, a plethora of quantum algorithms have demonstrated, both theoretically and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-30 Sachin S. Bharadwaj , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Quantum open systems are described in the Markovian limit by master equations in Lindblad form. I argue that common ``quantum trajectory'' techniques corresponding to continuous measurement schemes, which solve the master equation by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Todd A. Brun

We analyze the Markovian dynamics of a quantum system involving the interaction of two quantized fields at finite temperature decay. Utilizing superoperator techniques and applying two non-unitary transformations, we reformulate the…

The Lindblad master equation describes the evolution of a large variety of open quantum systems. An important property of some open quantum systems is the existence of decoherence-free subspaces. A quantum state from a decoherence-free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-07 Francisco Revson F. Pereira , Stefano Mancini , Giuliano G. La Guardia

Understanding the spin dynamics in low-temperature settings is crucial to designing and optimizing molecular spin systems for use in emerging quantum technologies. At low temperatures, irreversible loss occurs due to ensemble dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Timothy J. Krogmeier , Anthony W. Schlimgen , Kade Head-Marsden

We develop a versatile master equation approach to describe the non-equilibrium dynamics of a two-level system in contact with a bosonic environment, which allows for the exploration of a wide range of parameter regimes within a single…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-09-20 Dara P. S. McCutcheon , Nikesh S. Dattani , Erik M. Gauger , Brendon W. Lovett , Ahsan Nazir

In this book chapter, we provide a tutorial introduction to one-way quantum computation and many of the techniques one can use to understand it. The techniques which are described include the stabilizer formalism and the logical Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Dan E. Browne , Hans J. Briegel

In this article, we investigate periodically driven open quantum systems within the framework of Floquet-Lindblad master equations. Specifically, we discuss Lindblad master equations in the presence of a coherent, time-periodic driving and…

A generalization of the stochastic wave function method is presented which allows the unravelling of arbitrary linear quantum master equations which are not necessarily in Lindblad form and, moreover, the explicit treatment of memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. P. Breuer , B. Kappler , F. Petruccione

We study the open system dynamics of a heavy quark in the quark-gluon plasma using a Lindblad master equation. Applying the quantum state diffusion approach by Gisin and Percival, we derive and numerically solve a nonlinear stochastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yukinao Akamatsu , Masayuki Asakawa , Shiori Kajimoto , Alexander Rothkopf

We present a pedagogical work-in-progress. This textbook aims to introduce Hilbert space representations for quantum and classical dynamics, outlining the mathematical foundations, practical guidance, and Python implementation of dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-26 Denys I. Bondar , Gerard McCaul , Andrii Sotnikov

This tutorial intends to introduce readers with a background in AI to quantum machine learning (QML) -- a rapidly evolving field that seeks to leverage the power of quantum computers to reshape the landscape of machine learning. For…

For the efficient simulation of open quantum systems we often use quantum jump trajectories given by pure states that evolve stochastically to unravel the dynamics of the underlying master equation. In the Markovian regime, when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-20 Tobias Becker , Ché Netzer , André Eckardt

World-wide efforts aim at the realization of advanced quantum simulators and processors. However, despite the development of intricate hardware and pulse control systems, it may still not be generally known which effective quantum dynamics,…

Decays of heavier neutrino mass eigenstates into lighter ones, while very slow in the Standard Model, can be significantly enhanced in scenarios with more than three neutrino flavours, or in models with new ultra-light particles such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-14 Joachim Kopp , George A. Parker

For quantum transport through mesoscopic system, a quantum master equation approach is developed in terms of compact expressions for the transport current and the reduced density matrix of the system. The present work is an extension of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Xin-Qi Li , Jun-Yan Luo , Yong-Gang Yang , Ping Cui , YiJing Yan

The ultimate goal of this paper is to develop a systematic method for deriving quantum master equations that satisfy the requirements of a completely positive and trace-preserving (CPTP) map, further describing thermal relaxation processes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 F. Nicacio , T. Koide

We introduce a systematic approximation for an efficient evaluation of Born--Markov master equations for steady state transport studies in open quantum systems out of equilibrium: the energy resolved master equation approach. The master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-23 Gerhard Dorn , Enrico Arrigoni , Wolfgang von der Linden