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In this paper, an open quantum system theory for spinfoams is developed. This new formalism aims at deriving an effective Lindblad equation to compute the reduced dynamics of a quantum gravitational field. The system parameters are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Quentin Ansel

In this work, we present a multiple-scale perturbation technique suitable for the study of open quantum systems, which is easy to implement and in few iterative steps allows us to find excellent approximate solutions. For any time-local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 D. N. Bernal-García , B. A. Rodríguez , H. Vinck-Posada

The many-body physics at quantum phase transitions shows a subtle interplay between quantum and thermal fluctuations, emerging in the low-temperature limit. In this review, we first give a pedagogical introduction to the equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-22 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

Starting from a microscopic description of weak system-bath interactions, we derive from first principles a quantum master equation that does not rely on the well-known rotating wave approximation. This includes generic many-body systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Matteo Scandi , Álvaro M. Alhambra

The objective of this article is to complete preliminary results concerning the time-minimal control of dissipative two-level quantum systems whose dynamics is governed by Lindblad equations. The extremal system is described by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 B. Bonnard , M. Chyba , D. Sugny

Generic open quantum systems are notoriously difficult to simulate unless one looks at specific regimes. In contrast, classical dissipative systems can often be effectively described by stochastic processes, which are generally less…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 Charlie R. Hogg , Jonas Glatthard , Federico Cerisola , Janet Anders

Estimating the steady-state properties of open many-body quantum systems is a fundamental challenge in quantum science and technologies. In this work, we present a scalable approach based on semi-definite programming to derive certified…

The study of open quantum systems has become increasingly important in the past years, as the ability to control quantum coherence on a single particle level has been developed in a wide variety of physical systems. In quantum optics, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-07 Andrew J. Daley

The damping of the harmonic oscillator is studied in the framework of the Lindblad theory for open quantum systems. A generalization of the fundamental constraints on quantum mechanical diffusion coefficients which appear in the master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 A. Isar , A. Sandulescu , H. Scutaru , E. Stefanescu , W. Scheid

We discuss an open driven-dissipative many-body system, in which the competition of unitary Hamiltonian and dissipative Liouvillian dynamics leads to a nonequilibrium phase transition. It shares features of a quantum phase transition in…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-08-06 Sebastian Diehl , Andrea Tomadin , Andrea Micheli , Rosario Fazio , Peter Zoller

We consider finite-dimensional many-body quantum systems described by time-independent Hamiltonians and Markovian master equations, and present a systematic method for constructing smaller-dimensional, reduced models that exactly reproduce…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-30 Tommaso Grigoletto , Yukuan Tao , Francesco Ticozzi , Lorenza Viola

Realistic models of quantum systems must include dissipative interactions with an environment. For weakly-damped systems the Lindblad-form Markovian master equation is invaluable for this task due to its tractability and efficiency. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Gavin McCauley , Benjamin Cruikshank , Denys I. Bondar , Kurt Jacobs

Using Liouville space and superoperator formalism we consider pure stationary states of open and dissipative quantum systems. We discuss stationary states of open quantum systems, which coincide with stationary states of closed quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vasily E. Tarasov

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 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

Magnetic systems can be described by the classical Landau-Lifshitz (LL) equation or the fully quantum open Heisenberg model. Using the Lindblad master equation and the mean-field approximation, we demonstrate that the open Heisenberg model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Ariel Norambuena , Andrés Franco , Raúl Coto

We present a Bayesian algorithm to identify generators of open quantum system dynamics, described by a Lindblad master equation, that are compatible with measured experimental data. The algorithm, based on a Markov Chain Monte Carlo…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Stewart Wallace , Yoann Altmann , Brian D. Gerardot , Erik M. Gauger , Cristian Bonato

We present a collection of methods to simulate entangled dynamics of open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad equation with tensor network methods. Tensor network methods using matrix product states have been proven very useful to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-09 Daniel Jaschke , Simone Montangero , Lincoln D. Carr

We establish a generic method to analyze the time evolution of open quantum many-body systems. Our approach is based on a variational integration of the quantum master equation describing the dynamics and naturally connects to a variational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-29 Vincent R. Overbeck , Hendrik Weimer

Quantum dynamics of a general dissipative system investigated by its coupling to a Klein-Gordon type field as the environment by introducing a minimal coupling method. As an example, the quantum dynamics of a damped three dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Kheirandish , A. Amooshahi