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The celebrated Lindblad equation governs the non-unitary time evolution of density operators used in the description of open quantum systems. It is usually derived from the von Neumann equation for a large system, at given physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-26 Benedikt M. Reible , Luigi Delle Site

Exponential growth in the out-of-time-order correlator (OTOC) is an important potential signature of quantum chaos. The OTOC is quite simple to calculate for squeezed states, whose applications are frequently found in quantum optics and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-02-03 S. Shajidul Haque , Bret Underwood

The dynamics of entanglement has recently been realized as a useful probe in studying ergodicity and its breakdown in quantum many-body systems. In this paper, we study theoretically the growth of entanglement in quantum many-body systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-02 Wen Wei Ho , Dmitry A. Abanin

Operator entanglement is a well-established measure of operator complexity across a system bipartition. In this work, we introduce a measure for the ability of a unitary channel to generate operator entanglement, representing an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-13 Faidon Andreadakis , Emanuel Dallas , Paolo Zanardi

Krylov complexity is considered to provide a measure of the growth of operators evolving under Hamiltonian dynamics. The main strategy is the analysis of the structure of Krylov subspace $\mathcal{K}_M(\mathcal{H},\eta)$ spanned by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Ryu Sasaki

Operator spreading under unitary time evolution has attracted a lot of attention recently, as a way to probe many-body quantum chaos. While quantities such as out-of-time-ordered correlators (OTOC) do distinguish interacting from…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-09-17 Javier Lopez-Piqueres , Brayden Ware , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

The dynamics of Markovian open quantum systems are described by Lindblad master equations. For fermionic and bosonic systems that are quasi-free, i.e., with Hamiltonians that are quadratic in the ladder operators and Lindblad operators that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-03 Thomas Barthel , Yikang Zhang

The operator wavefunction provides a fine-grained description of quantum chaos and of the irreversible growth of simple operators into increasingly complex ones. Remarkably, at finite temperature this wavefunction can acquire a phase that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Rishik Perugu , Bryce Kobrin , Michael O. Flynn , Thomas Scaffidi

We consider a class of open quantum many-body Lindblad dynamics characterized by an all-to-all coupling Hamiltonian and by dissipation featuring collective ``state-dependent" rates. The latter encodes local incoherent transitions that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Eliana Fiorelli , Markus Müller , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

In the presence of Lindblad decoherence, i.e. dissipative effects in an open quantum system due to interaction with an environment, we examine the transition probabilities between the eigenstates in the two-level quantum system described by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Tommy Ohlsson , Shun Zhou

The upper bounds for the rate of fluctuation growth of an observable in both open and closed quantum systems have been studied actively recently. In our recent work we showed that the rate of fluctuation growth for an observable in a closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-12 Newshaw Bahreyni , Paul M. Alsing , Carlo Cafaro , Walid Redjem , Christian Corda

We present the Reduced Operator Approximation: a simple, physically transparent and computationally efficient method of modelling open quantum systems. It employs the Heisenberg picture of the quantum dynamics, which allows us to focus on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-06 Agnieszka Werpachowska

Random quantum circuits yield minimally structured models for chaotic quantum dynamics, able to capture for example universal properties of entanglement growth. We provide exact results and coarse-grained models for the spreading of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-04-18 Adam Nahum , Sagar Vijay , Jeongwan Haah

We study solutions to measure data elliptic systems with Uhlenbeck-type structure that involve operator of divergence form, depending continuously on the spacial variable, and exposing doubling Orlicz growth with respect to the second…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Iwona Chlebicka , Yeonghun Youn , Anna Zatorska-Goldstein

Scrambling, a process in which quantum information spreads over a complex quantum system becoming inaccessible to simple probes, happens in generic chaotic quantum many-body systems, ranging from spin chains, to metals, even to black holes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Shenglong Xu , Brian Swingle

We study controllability of finite-dimensional open quantum systems under a general Markovian control model combining full coherent (unitary) control with tunable dissipative channels. Assuming the Hamiltonian controls is a H\"ormander…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Jihong Cai , Advith Govindarajan , Marius Junge

We study a so-called semi-ergodic brickwork dual-unitary circuits where, in the infinite volume limit, the two-point correlation functions of single-site operators exhibit ergodic behavior along one light ray and non-ergodic behavior along…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Mao Tian Tan , Tomaž Prosen

The dynamical invariant, whose expectation value is constant, is generalized to open quantum system. The evolution equation of dynamical invariant (the dynamical invariant condition) is presented for Markovian dynamics. Different with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-25 S. L. Wu , X. Y. Zhang , X. X. Yi

In this note, we develop a framework to describe open quantum systems in the Heisenberg picture, i.e., via time evolving operator algebras. We point out the incompleteness of the previous proposals in this regard. We argue that a complete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-01 Nachiket Karve , R. Loganayagam

The out-of-time order correlator (OTOC) has been widely studied in closed quantum systems. However, there are very few studies for open systems and they are mainly focused on isolating the effects of scrambling from those of decoherence.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Pablo D. Bergamasco , Gabriel G. Carlo , Alejandro M. F. Rivas