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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

We revise fundamental concepts in the dynamics of open quantum systems in the light of modern developments in the field. Our aim is to present a unified approach to the quantum evolution of open systems that incorporates the concepts and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-29 Ángel Rivas , Susana F. Huelga

We define an observable-space framework of Quantum Koopman Algorithms (QKAs) for simulating the dynamics of both linear quantum and nonlinear classical systems, based on approximately closed sets of observables and efficient coherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 David Jennings , Kamil Korzekwa , Matteo Lostaglio , Guoming Wang

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

To study various quantum dynamics, it is important to develop effective methods to detect and distinguish different quantum dynamics. A common non-demolition approach is to couple an auxiliary system (ancilla) to the target system, and to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Yi Zuo , Qinghong Yang , Banggui Liu

A rapid restoration of the bath state is usually required to induce Markovian dynamics for an open quantum system, which typically can be realized only in limits such as weak system-bath coupling and infinitely large bath. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-01 Shengshi Pang , Todd A. Brun , Andrew N. Jordan

A non-Markovian stochastic Schroedinger equation for a quantum system coupled to an environment of harmonic oscillators is presented. Its solutions, when averaged over the noise, reproduce the standard reduced density operator without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Walter T Strunz , Lajos Diosi , Nicolas Gisin

The recently developed formalism of Markovian master equations for quantum open systems with external periodic driving is applied to the theory of dynamical decoupling by periodic control. This new approach provides a more detailed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-01 Krzysztof Szczygielski , Robert Alicki

We extend the Quantum Memory Matrix (QMM) framework, originally developed to reconcile quantum mechanics and general relativity by treating space-time as a dynamic information reservoir, to incorporate the full suite of Standard Model gauge…

General Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Florian Neukart , Eike Marx , Valerii Vinokur

In the context of closed quantum systems, when a system prepared in its ground state undergoes a sudden quench, the resulting Loschmidt echo can exhibit zeros, resembling the Fisher zeros in the theory of classical equilibrium phase…

Modeling open quantum systems -- quantum systems coupled to a bath -- is of value in condensed matter theory, cavity quantum electrodynamics, nanosciences and biophysics. The real-time simulation of open quantum systems was advanced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-14 Hanggai Nuomin , David N. Beratan , Peng Zhang

Many physical and chemical processes in the condensed phase environment exhibit non-Markovian quantum dynamics. As such simulations are challenging on classical computers, we developed a variational quantum algorithm that is capable of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Peter L. Walters , Joachim Tsakanikas , Fei Wang

We introduce a systematic framework to derive the effective Hamiltonian governing the coherent dynamics of non-Markovian open quantum systems. By applying the minimal dissipation principle, we uniquely isolate the coherent contribution to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Alessandra Colla , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Giulio Gasbarri

We explore how the fundamental problems in quantum molecular dynamics can be modelled using classical simulators (emulators) of quantum computers and the actual quantum hardware available to us today. The list of problems we tackle includes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Tamila Kuanysheva , Brian Kendrick , Lukasz Cincio , Dmitri Babikov

The generalized quantum master equation provides a powerful framework for non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems. However, the accurate and efficient evaluation of the memory kernel remains a challenge. In this work, we introduce a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Rui-Hao Bi , Wei Liu , Wenjie Dou

In this paper we investigate the dynamics of a spin chain whose two end spins interact with two independent non-Markovian baths by using the non-Markovian quantum state diffusion (QSD) equation approach. Specifically two issues about…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Li-ping Han , Jian Zou , Hai Li , Bin Shao

Quantum memory effects can be related to a bidirectional exchange of information between an open system and its environment, which in turn modifies the state and dynamical behavior of the last one. Nevertheless, non-Markovianity can also be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-26 Adrián A. Budini

An approximate approach to quantum vibrational dynamics, "Brownian Chain Molecular Dynamics (BCMD)", is proposed to alleviate the chain resonance and curvature problems in the imaginary time-based path integral (PI) simulation. Here the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-26 Motoyuki Shiga

We study the quantum dissipative dynamics of a particle coupled linearly to a set of two-level systems (the heat bath) via the master equation method which we extract from the path integral formalism independently from the form of the bath…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Paulo C. Marques , Antonio H. Castro Neto

All physical systems are to some extent open and interacting with their environment. This insight, basic as it may seem, gives rise to the necessity of protecting quantum systems from decoherence in quantum technologies and is at the heart…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-05 S. Groeblacher , A. Trubarov , N. Prigge , G. D. Cole , M. Aspelmeyer , J. Eisert