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Master equations are commonly used to describe time evolution of open systems. We introduce a general method for calculating a Markovian solution of the Nakajima-Zwanzig generalized master equation. We do so for a time dependent transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Thorsteinn H. Jonsson , Andrei Manolescu , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Anna Sitek , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

A quantum master equation (QME) is derived for the many-body density matrix of an open current-carrying system weakly coupled to two metal leads. The dynamics and the steady-state properties of the system for arbitrary bias are studied…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Upendra Harbola , Massimiliano Esposito , Shaul Mukamel

When the coupling of a quantum system to its environment is non-negligible, its steady state is known to deviate from the textbook Gibbs state. The Bloch-Redfield quantum master equation, one of the most widely adopted equations to solve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-27 Prem Kumar , K. P. Athulya , Sibasish Ghosh

Driven-dissipative quantum many-body systems have attracted increasing interest in recent years as they lead to novel classes of quantum many-body phenomena. In particular, mean-field calculations predict limit cycle phases, slow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-03 E. T. Owen , J. Jin , D. Rossini , R. Fazio , M. J. Hartmann

We prove Lieb-Robinson bounds for a general class of lattice fermion systems. By making use of a suitable conditional expectation onto subalgebras of the CAR algebra, we can apply the Lieb-Robinson bounds much in the same way as for quantum…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Bruno Nachtergaele , Robert Sims , Amanda Young

We give the first rigorous derivation of the celebrated Ginzburg-Landau (GL) theory, starting from the microscopic Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) model. Close to the critical temperature, GL arises as an effective theory on the macroscopic…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Rupert L. Frank , Christian Hainzl , Robert Seiringer , Jan Philip Solovej

We discuss how quantum jumps affect localized regimes in driven-dissipative disordered many-body systems featuring a localization transition. We introduce a deformation of the Lindblad master equation that interpolates between the standard…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Sparsh Gupta , Hari Kumar Yadalam , Manas Kulkarni , Camille Aron

We construct model master equations for local quantum dissipation. The master equations are in the form of Lindblad generators, with imposed constraints that the dissipations be strictly linear (i.e. ohmic), isotropic and translationally…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. R. Gallis

We provide the rigorous justification of the NLS approximation, in Sobolev regularity, for a class of quasilinear Hamiltonian Klein Gordon equations with quadratic nonlinearities on large one-dimensional tori $\T_L:=\mathbb{R}/(2\pi L…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-02-16 Roberto Feola , Filippo Giuliani

The Lieb-Robinson bound shows that the speed of propagating information in a nonrelativistic quantum lattice system is bounded by a finite velocity, which entails the clustering of correlations. In this paper, we extend the Lieb-Robinson…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-06-20 Zhiqiang Huang , Xiao-Kan Guo

A many particle Hamiltonian, where the interaction term conserves the number of particles, is considered. A master equation for the populations of the different levels is derived in an exact way. It results in a local equation with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Edgardo T. Garcia Alvarez , Fabian H. Gaioli

We study two-body non-Hermitian physics in the context of an open dissipative system depicted by the Lindblad master equation. Adopting a minimal lattice model of a handful of interacting fermions with single-particle dissipation, we show…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-19 Peize Ding , Wei Yi

We prove Lieb-Robinson bounds and the existence of the thermodynamic limit for a general class of irreversible dynamics for quantum lattice systems with time-dependent generators that satisfy a suitable decay condition in space.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-03-13 Bruno Nachtergaele , Anna Vershynina , Valentin A. Zagrebnov

A numerical bootstrap method is proposed to provide rigorous and nontrivial bounds in general quantum many-body systems with locality. In particular, lower bounds on ground state energies of local lattice systems are obtained by imposing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-16 Xizhi Han

Understanding the structure of quantum correlations in a many-body system is key to its computational treatment. For fermionic systems, correlations can be defined as deviations from Slater determinant states. The link between fermionic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-16 Mykola Semenyakin , Yevheniia Cheipesh , Yaroslav Herasymenko

In open quantum systems, a basic question at the interface of quantum information, statistical physics, and many-body dynamics is how well can one infer the structure of noise and dissipation generators from finite-time measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Caisheng Cheng , Ruicheng Bao

Long-range interacting many-body systems exhibit a number of peculiar and intriguing properties. One of those is the scaling of relaxation times with the number $N$ of particles in a system. In this paper I give a survey of results on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-14 Michael Kastner

We derive a new perturbative quantum master equation for the reduced density matrix of a system interacting with an environment (with a dense spectrum of energy levels). The total system energy (system plus environment) is constant and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Massimiliano Esposito , Pierre Gaspard

Many-body localization was proven under realistic assumptions by constructing a quasi-local unitary rotation that diagonalizes the Hamiltonian (Imbrie, 2016). A natural generalization is to consider all unitaries that have a similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-29 Evgeny Mozgunov

We propose new Lieb-Robinson bounds (bounds on the speed of propagation of information in quantum systems) with an explicit dependence on the interaction strengths of the Hamiltonian. For systems with more than two interactions it is found…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Isabeau Prémont-Schwarz , Jeff Hnybida