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In the study of closed many-body quantum systems one is often interested in the evolution of a subset of degrees of freedom. On many occasions it is possible to approach the problem by performing an appropriate decomposition into a bath and…

We study the decoherence of a collection of Majorana zero modes weakly coupled to a gapless reservoir of non-interacting fermions. Using the Born-Markov approximation, we derive a Lindblad master equation for the dissipative dynamics of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Sauri Bhattacharyya , Marco Grilli , Bernard van Heck

We have explored a simple microscopic model to simulate a thermally activated rate process where the associated bath which comprises a set of relaxing modes is not in an equilibrium state. The model captures some of the essential features…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jyotipratim Ray Chaudhuri , Gautam Gangopadhyay , Deb Shankar Ray

The local Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) quantum master equation is a powerful tool for the study of open quantum many-body systems. However, its microscopic derivation applicable to many-body systems is available only in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Koki Shiraishi , Masaya Nakagawa , Takashi Mori , Masahito Ueda

We consider a class of open quantum many-body Lindblad dynamics characterized by an all-to-all coupling Hamiltonian and by dissipation featuring collective ``state-dependent" rates. The latter encodes local incoherent transitions that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Eliana Fiorelli , Markus Müller , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

In interacting quantum many-body systems, relaxation toward equilibrium reflects a competition between internal chaotic dynamics and environmental dissipation. While conventional Markovian baths typically produce exponential decay,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-12 Gabriel Almeida , Pedro Ribeiro , Masudul Haque , Lucas Sá

We study the non-Markovian decoherence and disentanglement dynamics of dissipative quantum systems with special emphasis on non-Gaussian continuous variable systems. The dynamics are described by the Hu-Paz-Zhang master equation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-21 C. Hoerhammer , H. Buettner

The quantum Mpemba effect concerns with anomalous relaxation of quantum states that evolves either under unitary or non-unitary dynamics. In the context of open quantum systems, while most studies focus on quantum states evolving under…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Pitambar Bagui , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

In quasiballistic semiconductor nanostructures, carrier exchange between the active region and dissipative contacts is the mechanism that governs relaxation. In this paper, we present a theoretical treatment of transient quantum transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 B. Novakovic , I. Knezevic

For boundary-driven non-equilibrium Markov models of non-interacting particles in one dimension, either in continuous space with the Fokker-Planck dynamics involving an arbitrary force $F(x)$ and an arbitrary diffusion coefficient $D(x)$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Cecile Monthus

We introduce a generalized classical model of Brownian motion for describing thermal relaxation processes which is thermodynamically consistent. Applying the canonical quantization to this model, a quantum equation for the density operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 T. Koide , F. Nicacio

Open quantum systems exhibit dynamics ranging from unitary evolution to irreversible dissipation. While the Gorini--Kossakowski--Sudarshan--Lindblad (GKSL) equation uniquely characterizes Markovian CPTP evolution, many physical platforms…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-05 Bo Peng , Yu Zhang

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

Open quantum systems are, in general, described by a density matrix that is evolving under transformations belonging to a dynamical semigroup. They can obey the Franke-Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (FGKLS) equation. We exhaustively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Alexander A. Andrianov , Mikhail V. Ioffe , Ekaterina A. Izotova , Oleg O. Novikov

Markovian open many-body quantum systems display complicated relaxation dynamics. The spectral gap of the Liouvillian characterizes the asymptotic decay rate towards the stationary state, but it has recently been pointed out that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-30 Tatsuhiko Shirai , Takashi Mori

In the case of a quantum-classical hybrid system with a finite number of degrees of freedom, the problem of characterizing the most general dynamical semigroup is solved, under the restriction of being quasi-free. This is a generalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Alberto Barchielli , Reinhard Werner

We investigate the relation between non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and Lindblad dynamics in nonequilibrium open quantum systems. Non-Hermitian models can extend phase diagrams and enable sensing advantages, but such effects often rely on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Grazia Di Bello , Fabrizio Pavan , Vittorio Cataudella , Donato Farina

We develop a novel framework to engineer persistent oscillatory modes in Markovian open quantum systems governed by a time-independent Lindblad master equation. We show that oscillatory modes can be created when the Hamiltonian and jump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-06 Chun Hei Leung , Pak-Tik Fong , Tianyi Yan , Weibin Li

The stochastic Kuramoto model defined on a sequence of graphs is analyzed: the emphasis is posed on the relationship between the mean field limit, the connectivity of the underlying graph and the long time behavior. We give an explicit…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-12-24 Fabio Coppini

We propose a relaxation time approximation for the description of the dynamics of strongly excited fermion systems. Our approach is based on time-dependent density functional theory at the level of the local density approximation. This…

Atomic and Molecular Clusters · Physics 2016-01-26 P. -G. Reinhard , E. Suraud