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Modern 4-wave mixing spectroscopies are expensive to obtain experimentally and computationally. In certain cases, the unfavorable scaling of quantum dynamics problems can be improved using a generalized quantum master equation (GQME)…

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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,…

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We define an ensemble of projection operators, each of which has an exact associated Nakajima-Zwanzig master equation for quantum open system evolution. A mean field approximation for the memory kernels is introduced that yields, for an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Joshua Wilkie , Yin Mei Wong

In this review article, we present a non-equilibrium quantum transport theory for transient electron dynamics in nanodevices based on exact master equation derived with the path integral method in the fermion coherent-state representation.…

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We discuss dynamical response theory of driven-dissipative quantum systems described by Markovian Master Equations generating semi-groups of maps. In this setting thermal equilibrium states are replaced by non-equilibrium steady states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

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

We build an exact framework to evaluate heat, energy, and particle transport between Gaussian reservoirs mediated by a quadratic quantum system. By combining full counting statistics with newly developed non-Markovian master equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Guglielmo Pellitteri , Vittorio Giovannetti , Vasco Cavina

An effective approach to modeling non-Markovian quantum systems is to embed a principal (quantum) system of interest into a larger quantum system. A widely employed embedding is one that uses another quantum system, referred to as the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Hendra I. Nurdin

The quantum master equation obtained from two different thermodynamic arguments is seriously nonlinear. We argue that, for quantum systems, nonlinearity occurs naturally in the step from reversible to irreversible equations and we analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Hans Christian Öttinger

We study the consequences of adopting the memory dependent, non-Markovian, physics with the memory-less over-damped approximation usually employed to investigate Brownian particles. Due to the finite correlation time scale associated with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-05 Eduardo dos S. Nascimento , Welles A. M. Morgado

Master equations are commonly used to describe time evolution of open systems. We introduce a general method for calculating a Markovian solution of the Nakajima-Zwanzig generalized master equation. We do so for a time dependent transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Thorsteinn H. Jonsson , Andrei Manolescu , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Anna Sitek , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

We consider a general open system dynamics and we provide a recursive method to derive the associated non-Markovian master equation in a perturbative series. The approach relies on a momenta expansion of the open system evolution. Unlike…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-26 Giulio Gasbarri , Luca Ferialdi

The dynamics of two spins coupled to bosonic baths at different temperatures is studied. The analytical solution for the reduced density matrix of the system in the Markovian and Post-Markovian case with exponential memory kernel is found.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-06 Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

The exact quantum dynamics of lattice models can be computationally intensive, especially when aiming for large system sizes and extended simulation times necessary to converge transport coefficients. By leveraging finite memory times to…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-11-14 Srijan Bhattacharyya , Thomas Sayer , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

A general method is discussed to obtain Markovian master equations which describe the interaction with the environment in a microscopic and non-perturbative fashion. It is based on combining time-dependent scattering theory with the concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Klaus Hornberger

Non-Markovianity, the intricate dependence of an open quantum system on its temporal evolution history, holds tremendous implications across various scientific disciplines. However, accurately characterizing the complex non-Markovian…

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We revisit the model of a system made up of a Brownian quantum oscillator under the influence of an external classical force and linearly coupled to an environment made up of many quantum oscillators at zero or finite temperature. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. H. Fleming , B. L. Hu , Albert Roura

Accurate and efficient thermal dynamics models of permanent magnet synchronous motors are vital to efficient thermal management strategies. Physics-informed methods combine model-based and data-driven methods, offering greater flexibility…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Xinyuan Liao , Shaowei Chen , Shuai Zhao

We investigate the dynamic evolution and thermodynamic process of a driven quantum system immersed in a finite-temperature heat bath. A Born-Markovian quantum master equation is formally derived for the time-dependent system with discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-08 Dan Wang , Dazhi Xu

The initial stages of the evolution of an open quantum system encode the key information of its underlying dynamical correlations, which in turn can predict the trajectory at later stages. We propose a general approach based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Javier Cerrillo , Jianshu Cao