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This article reviews a recently-discovered link between integrable quantum field theories and certain ordinary differential equations in the complex domain. Along the way, aspects of PT-symmetric quantum mechanics are discussed, and some…

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We develop a general theory describing the thermodynamical behavior of open quantum systems coupled to thermal baths beyond perturbation theory. Our approach is based on the exact time-local quantum master equation for the reduced open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Alessandra Colla , Heinz-Peter Breuer

Despite being a well-established operational approach to quantify entanglement, R\'enyi entropy calculations have been plagued by their computational complexity. We introduce here a theoretical framework based on an optimal thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-14 Miha Srdinšek , Michele Casula , Rodolphe Vuilleumier

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a central field for understanding how energy conversion processes occur in microscopic systems. In these systems, effects such as coherence, entanglement, and non-Markovianity play key roles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca

Any particular classical system and its quantum version are normally viewed as separate formulations that are strictly distinct. Our goal is to overcome the two separate languages and create a smooth and common procedure that provides a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 John R. Klauder

Semi- and quasi-classical (SC) theories can handle arbitrary interatomic interactions and are thus well-suited to predict quantum dynamics in condensed phases that encode energy and charge transport, spectroscopic responses, and chemical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Matthew R. Laskowski , Srijan Bhattacharyya , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

The essence of the path integral method in quantum physics can be expressed in terms of two relations between unitary propagators, describing perturbations of the underlying system. They inherit the causal structure of the theory and its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-20 Detlev Buchholz , Klaus Fredenhagen

Using the Schwinger-Keldysh path integral, we draw a connection between localized quantum field theories and more commonly used models of local probes in Relativistic Quantum Information (RQI). By integrating over and then tracing out the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-14 Bruno de S. L. Torres

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 develop and test a computational framework to study heat exchange in interacting, nonequilibrium open quantum systems. Our iterative full counting statistics path integral (iFCSPI) approach extends a previously well-established influence…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-03-27 Michael Kilgour , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Dvira Segal

The shift in chemical equilibria due to isotope substitution is often exploited to gain insight into a wide variety of chemical and physical processes. It is a purely quantum mechanical effect, which can be computed exactly using…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-07-04 Michele Ceriotti , Thomas E. Markland

Reducing computational scaling for simulating non-Markovian dissipative dynamics using artificial neural networks is both a major focus and formidable challenge in open quantum systems. To enable neural quantum states (NQSs), we encode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Long Cao , Liwei Ge , Daochi Zhang , Xiang Li , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan , Xiao Zheng

Understanding the far-from-equilibrium dynamics of dissipative quantum systems, where dissipation and decoherence coexist with unitary dynamics, is an enormous challenge with immense rewards. Often, the only realistic approach is to forgo a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-11-06 Lucas Sá

The study of open quantum systems often relies on approximate master equations derived under the assumptions of weak coupling to the environment. However when the system is made of several interacting subsystems such a derivation is in many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 G. De Chiara , G. Landi , A. Hewgill , B. Reid , A. Ferraro , A. J. Roncaglia , M. Antezza

Input-output theory is a well-known tool in quantum optics and ubiquitous in the description of quantum systems probed by light. Owing to the generality of the setup it describes, the theory finds application in a wide variety of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Aaron Daniel , Matteo Brunelli , Aashish A. Clerk , Patrick P. Potts

We review equivariant localization techniques for the evaluation of Feynman path integrals. We develop systematic geometric methods for studying the semi-classical properties of phase space path integrals for dynamical systems, emphasizing…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Richard J. Szabo

A direct classical analog of the quantum dynamics of intrinsic decoherence in Hamiltonian systems, characterized by the time dependence of the linear entropy of the reduced density operator, is introduced. The similarities and differences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jiangbin Gong , Paul Brumer

We consider quantum decoherence in solid-state systems by studying the transverse dynamics of a single qubit interacting with a fermionic bath and driven by external pulses. Our interest is in investigating the extent to which the lost…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2008-07-10 R. M. Lutchyn , L. Cywinski , Cody P. Nave , S. Das Sarma

This paper presents an analytical treatment of the path integral formalism for time-dependent quantum systems within the framework of Wigner-Dunkl mechanics, emphasizing systems with varying masses and time-dependent potentials. By…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 A. Benchikha , B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu

We present the systematic formalism to derive the path-integral formulation for the hard-core particle systems far from equilibrium. Writing the master equation for a stochastic process of the system in terms of the annihilation and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Su-Chan Park , Doochul Kim , Jeong-Man Park