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We develop a new method for the construction of one-dimensional integrable Lindblad systems, which describe quantum many body models in contact with a Markovian environment. We find several new models with interesting features, such as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-23 Marius de Leeuw , Chiara Paletta , Balázs Pozsgay

We provide a rigorous construction of Markovian master equations for a wide class of quantum systems that encompass quadratic models of finite size, linearly coupled to an environment modeled by a set of independent thermal baths. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Antonio D'Abbruzzo , Davide Rossini

We consider the problem of time optimal control of a continuous bosonic quantum system subject to the action of a Markovian dissipation. In particular, we consider the case of a one mode Gaussian quantum system prepared in an arbitrary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Alberto Carlini , Andrea Mari , Vittorio Giovannetti

This is a concise, pedagogical introduction to the dynamic field of open quantum systems governed by Markovian master equations. We focus on the mathematical and physical origins of the widely used Lindblad equation, its unraveling in terms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Shovan Dutta

We propose a protocol for effectively implementing complex-balanced thermalization via Markovian processes on a quantum-circuit platform that couples the system with engineered reservoir qubits. The non-orthogonality of qubit eigenstates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Yiting Mao , Peigeng Zhong , Haiqing Lin , Xiaoqun Wang , Shijie Hu

We study a finite-dimensional continuous-time optimal control problem on finite horizon for a controlled diffusion driven by Brownian motion, in the linear-quadratic case. We admit stochastic coefficients, possibly depending on an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Fulvia Confortola , Marco Fuhrman , Giuseppina Guatteri , Gianmario Tessitore

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…

We determine how to optimally reset a superconducting qubit which interacts with a thermal environment in such a way that the coupling strength is tunable. Describing the system in terms of a time-local master equation with time-dependent…

We investigate the possibility of a Markovian quantum master equation (QME) that consistently describes a finite-dimensional system, a part of which is weakly coupled to a thermal bath. In order to preserve complete positivity and trace,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-08 Devashish Tupkary , Abhishek Dhar , Manas Kulkarni , Archak Purkayastha

A formalism based on Pontryagin's maximum principle is applied to determine the time-optimal protocol that drives a general initial state to a target state by a Hamiltonian with limited control, i.e., there is a single control field with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Chungwei Lin , Dries Sels , Yebin Wang

The Bloch equation that set the foundation for open quantum systems, was conceived by pure physical reasoning. Since then, the Lindblad (GKLS) form of a quantum master equation, its most general mathematical representation, became an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Eugenia Pyurbeeva , Ronnie Kosloff

We study a particular form of interaction Hamiltonian between qubits and quantum harmonic oscillators, whose closed system dynamics results in qubit controlled displacement operations. We show how this interaction is realizable in many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-09-18 Tommaso Tufarelli

Our aim is twofold: First, we rigorously analyse the generators of quantum-dynamical semigroups of thermodynamic processes. We characterise a wide class of GKSL-generators for quantum maps within thermal operations and argue that every…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Frederik vom Ende , Emanuel Malvetti , Gunther Dirr , Thomas Schulte-Herbrüggen

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

An efficient optimal-control theory based on the Krotov method is introduced for a non-Markovian open quantum system with a time-nonlocal master equation in which the control parameter and the bath correlation function are correlated. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Bin Hwang , Hsi-Sheng Goan

We develop a Lindblad framework for quantum stochastic thermodynamics to study the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open quantum systems. Our approach adopts the local quantum detailed balance condition, ensuring thermodynamic consistency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Jin-Fu Chen

This paper is concerned with a constrained stochastic linear-quadratic optimal control problem, in which the terminal state is fixed and the initial state is constrained to lie in a stochastic linear manifold. The controllability of…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-06-11 Xiuchun Bi , Jingrui Sun , Jie Xiong

A Markovian master equation describing the evolution of open quantum systems in the presence of a time-dependent external field is derived within the Bloch-Redfield formalism. It leads to a system--bath interaction which depends on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 H. Jirari , W. Pötz

This work is concerned with determination of the steady-state structure of time-independent Lindblad master equations, especially those possessing more than one steady state. The approach here is to treat Lindblad systems as generalizations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-24 Victor V. Albert , Liang Jiang

We apply quantum optimal control theory (QOCT) to an exactly solvable non-Markovian open quantum bit (qubit) system to achieve state-independent quantum control and construct high-fidelity quantum gates for moderate qubit decaying…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-12 Jung-Shen Tai , Kuan-Ting Lin , Hsi-Sheng Goan