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Understanding how a quantum many-body state is maintained stably as a nonequilibrium steady state is of fundamental and practical importance for exploration and exploitation of open quantum systems. We establish a general equivalent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-28 Takanao Ishii , Masahito Ueda

The majority of quantum open system models in the literature are simplistic in the sense that they only explicitly account for that part of the environment that directly interacts with the system of interest. A quantum open system with an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael R. Gallis

The coherent quantum dynamics of a single bosonic spin variable, subject to a constraint derived from the quantum spherical model of a ferromagnet, and coupled to an external heat bath, is studied through the Lindblad equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-12 Sascha Wald , Malte Henkel

Partial solvability plays an important role in the context of statistical mechanics, since it has turned out to be closely related to the emergence of quantum many-body scar states, i.e., exceptional energy eigenstates which do not obey the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-09 Chihiro Matsui , Naoto Tsuji

The last decade has witnessed the remarkable progress in our understanding of thermalization in isolated quantum systems. Combining the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis with quantum measurement theory, we extend the framework of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-31 Yuto Ashida , Keiji Saito , Masahito Ueda

Goran Lindblad was one of the pioneers of what is called now Quantum Thermodynamics. From this vast and rapidly developing field we have selected a sample of results concerning quantum open systems described by Markovian Master Equations of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-26 Robert Alicki

If an open quantum system is initially uncorrelated from its environment, then its dynamics can be written in terms of a Lindblad-form master equation. The master equation is divided into a unitary piece, represented by an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Patrick Hayden , Jonathan Sorce

In this work, we undertake the problem of formally introducing a notion of quantum many-body scarring in open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad equation. To this goal, we rely on the commutant-algebra framework for the description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Lorenzo Gotta

The dynamical behavior of open quantum systems plays a key role in many applications of quantum mechanics, examples ranging from fundamental problems, such as the environment-induced decay of quantum coherence and relaxation in many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Elsi-Mari Laine , Jyrki Piilo , Bassano Vacchini

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

A system of $N$ spin-1/2 particles interacting with a thermal reservoir is used as a pedagogical example for advanced undergraduate and graduate students. We introduce and illustrate some methods, approximations, and phenomena related to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-09 G. A. Prataviera , S. S. Mizrahi

The theory of quantum Brownian motion describes the properties of a large class of open quantum systems. Nonetheless, its description in terms of a Born-Markov master equation, widely used in the literature, is known to violate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Aniello Lampo , Soon Hoe Lim , Jan Wehr , Pietro Massignan , Maciej Lewenstein

The dissipation generated during a quasistatic thermodynamic process can be characterised by introducing a metric on the space of Gibbs states, in such a way that minimally-dissipating protocols correspond to geodesic trajectories. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-25 Matteo Scandi , Martí Perarnau-Llobet

We study thermalization in open quantum systems using the Lindblad formalism. A method that both thermalizes and couples to Lindblad operators only at edges of the system is introduced. Our method leads to a Gibbs state of the system,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-11 Israel Reichental , Anat Klempner , Yariv Kafri , Daniel Podolsky

Quantum master equations are an invaluable tool to model the dynamics of a plethora of microscopic systems, ranging from quantum optics and quantum information processing, to energy and charge transport, electronic and nuclear spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Francesco Campaioli , Jared H. Cole , Harini Hapuarachchi

In this article we revisit the theory of open quantum systems from the perspective of fermionic baths. Specifically, we concentrate on the dynamics of a central spin half particle interacting with a spin bath. We have calculated the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Subhashish Banerjee

A longstanding tool to characterize the evolution of open Markovian quantum systems is the GKSL (Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad) master equation. However, in some cases, open quantum systems can be effectively described with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Federico Roccati , G. Massimo Palma , Fabio Bagarello , Francesco Ciccarello

The Lindblad master equation is a foundational tool for modeling the dynamics of open quantum systems. As its use has extended far beyond its original domain, the boundaries of its validity have grown opaque. In particular, the rise of new…

Motivated by a geometric decomposition of the vector field associated with the Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) equation for finite-level open quantum systems, we propose a generalization of the recently introduced contact…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-11-06 Florio M. Ciaglia , Hans Cruz , Giuseppe Marmo

We present a unified many-body perturbation theory for open quantum systems, that treats dissipation, correlations, and external driving on equal footing. Using a Keldysh-Lindblad formalism, we introduce diagrammatic treatment of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Thomas Blommel , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Vojtech Vlcek