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We show that the exact master equation incorporating initial correlations for open quantum systems, within the Nakajima-Zwanzig operator-projection method, is a homegenous master equation for the reduced density matrix. We also derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Pei-Yun Yang , Wei-Min Zhang

Recovering properties of correlation functions is typically challenging. On one hand, experimentally, it requires measurements with a temporal resolution finer than the system's dynamics. On the other hand, analytical or numerical analysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Wojciech Górecki , Simone Felicetti , Lorenzo Maccone , Roberto Di Candia

A central problem in the theory of the dynamics of open quantum systems is the derivation of a rigorous and computationally tractable master equation for the reduced system density matrix. Most generally, the evolution of an open quantum…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-31 Daniel A. Lidar , Zsolt Bihary , K. Birgitta Whaley

Master equation could be applied to model various kinds of biochemical systems. A general theory for its time-dependent nonequilibrium thermodynamics is rigorously derived. We not only introduce a concept of general internal energy, but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-04-16 Hao Ge

A quantum fluctuation theorem for a driven quantum subsystem interacting with its environment is derived based solely on the assumption that its reduced density matrix obeys a closed evolution equation i.e. a quantum master equation (QME).…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Shaul Mukamel

Fluctuation theorems establish exact relations for nonequilibrium dynamics, profoundly advancing the field of stochastic thermodynamics. In this work, we extend quantum fluctuation theorems beyond the traditional thermodynamic framework to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Kun Zhang , Mo-Yang Ni , Hai-Long Shi , Xiao-Hui Wang , Jin Wang

Temporal quantum correlations provide an intriguing way of testing quantumness at the macroscopic level, with a logical hierarchy present among the quantum correlations associated with nonmacrorealism, temporal steering, and temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-26 Hao-Cheng Weng , Chen-Yeh Wei , Huan-Yu Ku , Shin-Liang Chen , Yueh-Nan Chen , Chih-Sung Chuu

Information-theoretic quantities have received significant attention as system-independent measures of correlations in many-body quantum systems, e.g., as universal order parameters of synchronization. In this work, we present a method to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Krzysztof Ptaszynski , Maciej Chudak , Massimiliano Esposito

We propose a measure for genuine multipartite correlations suited for the study of dynamics in open quantum systems. This measure is contextual in the sense that it depends on how information is read from the environment. It is used to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 Arne L. Grimsmo , Scott Parkins , Bo-Sture K. Skagerstam

Exact master equations describing the decay of a two-state system into a structured reservoir are constructed. Employing the exact solution for the model we determine analytical expressions for the memory kernel of the Nakajima-Zwanzig…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-04 Bassano Vacchini , Heinz-Peter Breuer

Understanding the behaviour of a quantum system coupled to its environment is of fundamental interest in the general field of quantum technologies. It also has important repercussions on foundational problems in physics, such as the process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-01 Sapphire Lally , Nicholas Werren , Jim Al-Khalili , Andrea Rocco

A generic non-integrable (unitary) out-of-equilibrium quantum process, when interrogated across many times, is shown to yield the same statistics as an (non-unitary) equilibrated process. In particular, using the tools of quantum stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Neil Dowling , Pedro Figueroa-Romero , Felix A. Pollock , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi

In this paper, we consider the long time asymptotics of multi-time correlation functions for quantum dynamical systems that are sufficiently random to relax to a ``reference state''. In particular, the evolution of such systems must have a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Andries , F. Benatti , M. De Cock , M. Fannes

Both conservation laws and practical restrictions impose symmetry constraints on the dynamics of open quantum systems. In the case of time-translation symmetry, which arises naturally in many physically relevant scenarios, the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-14 Matteo Lostaglio , Kamil Korzekwa , Antony Milne

We derive the improved estimators for general interactions and employ these for the continuous-time quantum Monte Carlo method. Using a worm algorithm we show how measuring higher-ordered correlators leads to an improved high-frequency…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-10-07 Patrik Gunacker , Markus Wallerberger , Tin Ribic , Andreas Hausoel , Giorgio Sangiovanni , Karsten Held

A precise time-dependent control of a quantum system relies on an accurate account of the quantum interference among the system, the control and the environment. A diagrammatic technique has been recently developed to precisely calculate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Ching-Kit Chan , L. J. Sham

We derive an extension to the quantum regression theorem which facilitates the calculation of two-time correlation functions and emission spectra for systems undergoing non-Markovian evolution. The derivation exploits projection operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Dara P. S. McCutcheon

We study the equivalence between the recently proposed finite environment quantum jump model and a master equation approach. We derive microscopically the master equation for a qubit coupled to a finite bosonic environment and show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-09 Samu Suomela , Rui Sampaio , Tapio Ala-Nissila

A general method is introduced for verifying multitime quantum correlations through the characteristic function of the time-dependent P functional that generalizes the Glauber-Sudarshan P function. Quantum correlation criteria are derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-30 F. Krumm , J. Sperling , W. Vogel

The recursion method, which solves coupled Heisenberg equations in a Lanczos operator basis, has recently emerged as a powerful nonperturbative tool for computing dynamical correlation functions in strongly correlated two- and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-29 Ilya Shirokov , Viacheslav Khrushchev , Filipp Uskov , Ivan Dudinets , Igor Ermakov , Oleg Lychkovskiy
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