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Accurately characterizing the properties of structured reservoirs is a key challenge in quantum systems and is of great importance for advances in quantum metrology and sensing. In this work, we employ a two-level system (qubit) as a probe,…

Memory effects arise in many complex systems, from protein folding, to the spreading of epidemics and financial decisions. While so-called non-Markovian dynamics is common in larger systems with interacting components, observations in…

We investigate quantum thermometry using a single-qubit probe embedded in a non-Markovian environment, employing the numerically exact hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) to overcome the limitations of Born-Markov approximations.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Qing-Shou Tan , Yang Liu , Xulin Liu , Hao Chen , Xing Xiao , Wei Wu

The understanding of memory effects arising from the interaction between system and environment is a key for engineering quantum thermodynamic devices beyond the standard Markovian limit. We study the performance of measurement-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Obinna Abah , Mauro Paternostro

Controlling the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is essential in quantum information technology since it plays a crucial role in preserving quantum memory. Albeit in many realistic scenarios the quantum system can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Zhong-Xiao Man , Yun-Jie Xia , Rosario Lo Franco

The basic features of the dynamics of open quantum systems, such as the dissipation of energy, the decay of coherences, the relaxation to an equilibrium or non-equilibrium stationary state, and the transport of excitations in complex…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 Heinz-Peter Breuer

We study the behavior of non-Markovianity with respect to the localization of the initial environmental state. The "amount" of non-Markovianity is measured using divisibility and distinguishability as indicators, employing several schemes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 David Davalos , Carlos Pineda

Understanding the noise characteristics of quantum processors is crucial when achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, typical qubit designs are often studied under the Markovian approximation, which does not fully capture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Chun-Tse Li , Jingming Tan , Vasil Gucev , Daniel Lidar

We investigate continuous quantum error correction, comparing performance under a Markovian error model to two distinct non-Markovian models. The first non-Markovian model involves an interaction Hamiltonian between the system and an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Juan Garcia Nila , Todd A. Brun

The time evolution of quantum correlations of entangled two-mode continuous variable states is examined in single-reservoir as well as two-reservoir models, representing noisy correlated or uncorrelated non-Markovian quantum channels. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Hoerhammer , H. Buettner

When dealing with system-reservoir interactions in an open quantum system, such as a photosynthetic light-harvesting complex, approximations are usually made to obtain the dynamics of the system. One question immediately arises: how good…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-06 Hong-Bin Chen , Neill Lambert , Yuan-Chung Cheng , Yueh-Nan Chen , Franco Nori

Recently, a measure for the non-Markovian behavior of quantum processes in open systems has been developed which is based on the quantification of the flow of information between the open system and its environment [Phys. Rev. Lett. 103,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Elsi-Mari Laine , Jyrki Piilo , Heinz-Peter Breuer

Non-Markovian dynamics is central to quantum information processing, as memory effects strongly influence coherence preservation, metrology, and communication. In this work, we investigate the role of stochastic system--bath couplings in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Mehboob Rashid , Rayees A Mala , Saima Bashir , Muzaffar Qadir Lone

The theory of quantum Brownian motion describes the properties of a large class of open quantum systems. Nonetheless, its description in terms of a Born-Markov master equation, widely used in the literature, is known to violate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Aniello Lampo , Soon Hoe Lim , Jan Wehr , Pietro Massignan , Maciej Lewenstein

We introduce a generalized approach to characterize the non-Markovianity of quantum dynamical maps via breakdown of monotonicity of thermodynamic functions. By adopting an entropy-based formulation of quantum thermodynamics, we use the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca , F. M. de Paula , M. S. Sarandy

Quantum thermodynamics studies how quantum systems and operations may be exploited as sources of work to perform useful thermodynamic tasks. In real-world conditions, the evolution of open quantum systems typically displays memory effects,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Guilherme Zambon , Gerardo Adesso

The dynamical behavior of quantum coherence of a displaced squeezed thermal state in contact with an external bath is discussed in the present work. We use a Fano-Anderson type of Hamiltonian to model the environment and solve the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Md. Manirul Ali , R. Chandrashekar , S. S. Naina Mohammed

For many open quantum systems, a master equation approach employing the Markov approximation cannot reliably describe the dynamical behaviour. This is the case, for example, in a number of solid state or biological systems, and it has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 V. Venkataraman , A. D. K. Plato , Tommaso Tufarelli , M. S. Kim

We study quantum Brownian motion (QBM) models for a particle in a dissipative environment coupled to a periodic potential. We review QBM for a particle in a one-dimensional periodic potential and extend the study to that for a particle in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Grace H. Zhang