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Open quantum systems described by a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian exhibit rich dynamics due to the topology of their complex energy spectrum. By encircling an exceptional point degeneracy, this topology allows for topological state transport,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Serra Erdamar , Maryam Abbasi , Weijian Chen , Niklas Hörnedal , Aurélia Chenu , Kater W. Murch

Complex spectra of dissipative quantum systems may exhibit degeneracies known as exceptional points (EPs). At these points the systems' dynamics may undergo drastic changes. Phenomena associated with EPs and their applications have been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-19 Andrei I. Pavlov , Yuval Gefen , Alexander Shnirman

An effective time-dependent Hamiltonian can be implemented by making a quantum system fly through an inhomogeneous potential, realizing, for example, a quantum gate on its internal degrees of freedom. However, flying systems have a spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-13 Nicolò Piccione , Léa Bresque , Andrew N. Jordan , Robert S. Whitney , Alexia Auffèves

Quantum phase estimation (QPE) and Lindbladian dynamics are both foundational in quantum information science and central to quantum algorithm design. In this work, we bridge these two concepts: certain simple Lindbladian processes can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Zhong-Xia Shang , Naixu Guo , Patrick Rebentrost , Alán Aspuru-Guzik , Tongyang Li , Qi Zhao

We investigate the problem of what evolutions an open quantum system described by a time-local Master equation can undergo with universal coherent controls. A series of conditions are given which exclude channels from being reachable by any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Benjamin Dive , Daniel Burgarth , Florian Mintert

We study the driven-dissipative Bose-Hubbard model with all-to-all hopping and subject to incoherent pumping and decay, as is naturally probed in several recent experiments on excitons in WS2/WSe2 moir\'e systems, as well as quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-10 Zhenhao Song , Tessa Cookmeyer , Leon Balents

A $D$-dimensional Markovian open quantum system will undergo quantum jumps between pure states, if we can monitor the bath to which it is coupled with sufficient precision. In general these jumps, plus the between-jump evolution, create a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-18 R. I. Karasik , H. M. Wiseman

We perform a systematic symmetry classification of many-body Lindblad superoperators describing general (interacting) open quantum systems coupled to a Markovian environment. Our classification is based on the behavior of the many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-24 Lucas Sá , Pedro Ribeiro , Tomaž Prosen

Quantum open systems are described in the Markovian limit by master equations in Lindblad form. I argue that common ``quantum jumps'' techniques, which solve the master equation by unraveling its evolution into stochastic trajectories in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Todd A. Brun

We consider the singular optimal control problem of minimizing the energy supply of linear dissipative port-Hamiltonian descriptor systems subject to control and terminal state constraints. To this end, after reducing the problem to an ODE…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Timm Faulwasser , Bernhard Maschke , Friedrich Philipp , Manuel Schaller , Karl Worthmann

High fidelity models, which support accurate device characterization and correctly account for environmental effects, are crucial to the engineering of scalable quantum technologies. As it ensures positivity of the density matrix, one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 S. N. A. Duffus , V. M. Dwyer , M. J. Everitt

We identify the conditions that guarantee equivalence of the reduced dynamics of an open quantum system (OQS) for two different types of environments - one a continuous bosonic environment leading to a unitary system-environment evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Dario Tamascelli , Andrea Smirne , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

We study time-minimum optimal control for a class of quantum two-dimensional dissipative systems whose dynamics are governed by the Lindblad equation and where control inputs acts only in the Hamiltonian. The dynamics of the control system…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-24 William Clark , Anthony Bloch , Leonardo Colombo , Patrick Rooney

For a Markovian open quantum system it is possible, by continuously monitoring the environment, to know the stochastically evolving pure state of the system without altering the master equation. In general, even for a system with a finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Prahlad Warszawski , Howard M. Wiseman

In this work we derive a lower bound for the minimum time required to implement a target unitary transformation through a classical time-dependent field in a closed quantum system. The bound depends on the target gate, the strength of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Christian Arenz , Benjamin Russell , Daniel Burgarth , Herschel Rabitz

The theory of open quantum systems served as a tool to prepare entanglement at the beginning stage of quantum technology and more recently provides an important tool for state preparation. Dynamics given by time dependent Lindbladians are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Jihong Cai , Advith Govindarajan , Marius Junge

We investigate in parallel two common pictures used to describe quantum systems interacting with their surrounding environment, i.e., the stochastic Hamiltonian description, where the environment is implicitly included in the fluctuating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Lorenzo Bernazzani , Balázs Gulácsi , Guido Burkard

A major challenge to the control of infinite dimensional quantum systems is the irreversibility which is often present in the system dynamics. Here we consider systems with discrete-spectrum Hamiltonians operating over a Schwartz space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-13 Roger S. Bliss , Daniel Burgarth

Trotter decomposition provides a simple approach to simulating open quantum systems by decomposing the Lindbladian into a sum of individual terms. While it is established that Trotter errors in Hamiltonian simulation depend on nested…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Xinzhao Wang , Shuo Zhou , Xiaoyang Wang , Yi-Cong Zheng , Shengyu Zhang , Tongyang Li

The description of interacting quantum impurity models in steady-state nonequilibrium is an open challenge for computational many-particle methods: the numerical requirement of using a finite number of lead levels and the physical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-11-08 Frauke Schwarz , Moshe Goldstein , Antonius Dorda , Enrico Arrigoni , Andreas Weichselbaum , Jan von Delft