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Do stochastic Schr\"odinger equations, also known as unravelings, have a physical interpretation? In the Markovian limit, where the system {\em on average} obeys a master equation, the answer is yes. Markovian stochastic Schr\"odinger…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jay Gambetta , H. M. Wiseman

Quantum computers are known for their potential to achieve up-to-exponential speedup compared to classical computers for certain problems. To exploit the advantages of quantum computers, we propose quantum algorithms for linear stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Wei Wei

We derive an exact master equation that captures the dynamics of a quadratic quantum system linearly coupled to a Gaussian environment of the same statistics: the Gaussian Master Equation (GME). Unlike previous approaches, our formulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Antonio D'Abbruzzo , Vittorio Giovannetti , Vasco Cavina

We introduce an exact open system method to describe the dynamics of quantum systems that are strongly coupled to specific types of environments comprising of spins, such as central spin systems. Our theory is similar to the established…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Valentin Link , Kimmo Luoma , Walter T. Strunz

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 Stochastic Liouville-von Neumann (SLN) equation describes the dynamics of an open quantum system reduced density matrix coupled to a non-Markovian harmonic environment. The interaction with the environment is represented by complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Daniel Matos , Matthew A Lane , Ian J Ford , Lev Kantorovich

In this paper, we investigate non-Markovian quantum dynamics from the perspective of quantum noises in a network of atoms mediated by a waveguide. In such networks, quantum coherent feedback control becomes achievable when coherent fields…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Haijin Ding , Guofeng Zhang

By using a condition of average trace preservation we derive a general class of non-Markovian Gaussian diffusive unravelings [L. Diosi and L. Ferialdi, Phys. Rev. Lett. \textbf{113}, 200403 (2014)], here valid for arbitrary non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-10 Adrian A. Budini

We study the dynamics of quantum systems under classical and quantum noise, focusing on decoherence in qubit systems. Classical noise is described by a random process leading to a stochastic temporal evolution of a closed quantum system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-25 Olli-Pentti Saira , Ville Bergholm , Teemu Ojanen , Mikko Mottonen

Motivated by cosmological Hartle-Hawking and microcanonical density matrix prescriptions for the quantum state of the Universe we develop Schwinger-Keldysh in-in formalism for generic nonequilibrium dynamical systems with the initial…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-09-08 Andrei O. Barvinsky , Nikita Kolganov

Stochastic evolution underpins several approaches to the dynamics of open quantum systems, such as random modulation of Hamiltonian parameters, the stochastic Schrodinger equation (SSE), and the stochastic Liouville equation (SLE). These…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Pietro De Checchi , Federico Gallina , Barbara Fresch , Giulio G. Giusteri

An efficient algorithm to simulate dynamics of open quantum system is presented. The method describes the dynamics by unraveling stochastic wave functions converging to a density operator description. The stochastic techniques are based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Ronnie Kosloff Uriel Shafir

This paper considers the extension of the non-Markovian stochastic approach for quantum open systems strongly coupled to a fermionic bath, to the models in which the system operators commute with the fermion bath. This technique can also be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-19 Xinyu Zhao , Wufu Shi , Lian-Ao Wu , Ting Yu

Do diffusive non-Markovian stochastic Schr\"odinger equations (SSEs) for open quantum systems have a physical interpretation? In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. A 66, 012108 (2002)] we investigated this question using the orthodox interpretation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jay Gambetta , H. M. Wiseman

Although recent advances in simulating open quantum systems have lead to significant progress, the applicability of numerically exact methods is still restricted to rather small systems. Hence, more approximate methods remain relevant due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Yannick Marcel Holtkamp , Emiliano Godinez-Ramirez , Ulrich Kleinekathöfer

Weak measurement of a subset of noncommuting observables of a quantum system can be modeled by the open-system evolution, governed by the master equation in the Lindblad form. The open-system density operator can be represented as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Khasin , R. Kosloff

A system under constant observation is practically freezed to the measurement subspace. If the system driving is a random classical field, the survival probability of the system in the subspace becomes a random variable described by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Matthias M. Müller , Stefano Gherardini , Filippo Caruso

Noise is ubiquitous in real quantum systems, leading to non-Hermitian quantum dynamics, and may affect the fundamental states of matter. Here we report in experiment a quantum simulation of the two-dimensional non-Hermitian quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-01 Zidong Lin , Lin Zhang , Xinyue Long , Yu-ang Fan , Yishan Li , Kai Tang , Jun Li , XinFang Nie , Tao Xin , Xiong-Jun Liu , Dawei Lu

We derive a formalism of stochastic master equations (SME) which describes the decoherence dynamics of a system in spin environments conditioned on the measurement record. Markovian and non-Markovian nature of environment can be revealed by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-02 Dong Xie , An Min Wang

Descriptions of complex physical or biological systems often include stochastic contributions, and these are commonly simulated using Wiener processes. In many cases however, non-Gaussian fluctuations may originate from non-Wiener processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-19 Richard D. J. G. Ho