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The Loschmidt echo is a measure of quantum irreversibility and is determined by the fidelity amplitude of an imperfect time-reversal protocol. Fidelity amplitude plays an important role both in the foundations of quantum mechanics and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-03 Jiri Vanicek , Doron Cohen

Open quantum systems can be described by unraveling Lindblad master equations into ensembles of quantum trajectories. Here we investigate how the complexity of such trajectories is affected by conservation laws and other dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Luca Lumia , Emanuele Tirrito , Mario Collura , Fabian H. L. Essler , Rosario Fazio

A general theoretical approach to study the quantum kinetics in a system coupled to a bath is proposed. Starting with the microscopic interaction, a Lindblad master equation is established, which goes beyond the common secular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Gediminas Kiršanskas , Martin Franckié , Andreas Wacker

The Lindblad equation is a widely used quantum master equation to model the dynamical evolution of open quantum systems whose states are described by density matrices. This equation is also a fundamental building block to design optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Hao Chen , Alfio Borzi

Tensor network decompositions of path integrals for simulating open quantum systems have recently been proven to be useful. However, these methods scale exponentially with the system size. This makes it challenging to simulate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-11 Amartya Bose , Peter L. Walters

We consider the exact reduced dynamics of a two-level system coupled to a bosonic reservoir, further obtaining the exact time-convolutionless and Nakajima-Zwanzig non-Markovian equations of motion. The considered system includes the damped…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-22 Andrea Smirne , Bassano Vacchini

We develop a path integral representation for the dynamics of quantum systems with a finite-dimensional Hilbert space, formulated entirely within a discrete phase space. Starting from the discrete Wigner function defined on $\mathbb{Z}_d…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Leonardo A. Pachon , Andres F. Gomez

Fractionation of isotopes among distinct molecules or phases is a quantum effect which is often exploited to obtain insights on reaction mechanisms, biochemical, geochemical and atmospheric phenomena. Accurate evaluation of isotope ratios…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bingqing Cheng , Michele Ceriotti

In this paper, we introduce a novel and general framework for the variational quantum simulation of Lindblad equations. Building on the close relationship between the unraveled Lindblad dynamics, stochastic Magnus integrators, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-22 Jia-Cheng Huang , Hao-En Li , Yi-Cheng Wang , Guang-Ze Zhang , Jun Li , Han-Shi Hu

Providing entanglement for the design of quantum technologies in the presence of noise constitutes today's main challenge in quantum information science. A framework is required that assesses the build-up of entanglement in realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Julien Pinske , Laura Ares , Benjamin Hinrichs , Martin Kolb , Jan Sperling

A method for nonperturbative path integral calculation is proposed. Quantum mechanics as a simplest example of a quantum field theory is considered. All modes are decomposed into hard (with frequencies $\omega^2 >\omega^2_0$) and soft (with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 V. M. Belyaev

We propose a method which combines the quantum-classical mapping approach to surface hopping (MASH) with the dissipative quantum dynamics of the Lindblad master equation. Like conventional surface-hopping methods, our approach is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Kasra Asnaashari , Jeremy O. Richardson

We present a general approach to derive Lindblad master equations for a subsystem whose dynamics is coupled to dissipative bosonic modes. The derivation relies on a Schrieffer-Wolff transformation which allows to eliminate the bosonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-17 Simon B. Jäger , Tom Schmit , Giovanna Morigi , Murray J. Holland , Ralf Betzholz

The Lindblad equation is a widely used quantum master equation to model the dynamical evolution of open quantum systems whose states are described by density matrices. These solution matrices are characterized by semi-positiveness and trace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Hao Chen , Alfio Borzì , Denis Janković , Jean-Gabriel Hartmann , Paul-Antoine Hervieux

I propose a path integral description of the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Hamiltonian, both in one and two dimensions, after mapping the real space model onto the time scale. While the lattice degrees of freedom are classical functions of time and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-13 Marco Zoli

We present a quantum algorithm for simulating a family of Markovian master equations that can be realized through a probabilistic application of unitary channels and state preparation. Our approach employs a second-order product formula for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-02 Evan Borras , Milad Marvian

The development and implementation of increasingly accurate methods for electronic structure calculations mean that, for many atomistic simulation problems, treating light nuclei as classical particles is now one of the most serious…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-12 Venkat Kapil , Joost VandeVondele , Michele Ceriotti

We investigate the purification dynamics of a single qubit under continuous in time monitoring. By employing a collisional model framework where the system interacts sequentially with ancillary qubits, we describe the conditioned evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Matheus M. R. Poltronieri Martins , Henrique Santos Lima

A model master equation suitable for quantum computing dynamics is presented. In an ideal quantum computer (QC), a system of qubits evolves in time unitarily and, by virtue of their entanglement, interfere quantum mechanically to solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-31 Frank Tabakin

The Lindblad master equation for an open quantum system with a Hamiltonian containing an arbitrary potential is written as an equation for the Wigner distribution function in the phase space representation. The time derivative of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Isar , A. Sandulescu , W. Scheid