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Quantum simulation of non-Markovian open quantum dynamics is essential but challenging for standard quantum computers due to their non-Hermitian nature, leading to non-unitary evolution, and the limitations of available quantum resources.…

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It is shown that the exact dynamics of a composite quantum system can be represented through a pair of product states which evolve according to a Markovian random jump process. This representation is used to design a general Monte Carlo…

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We investigate operator dynamics and entanglement growth in dual-unitary circuits, a class of locally scrambled quantum systems that enables efficient simulation beyond the exponential complexity of the Hilbert space. By mapping the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-02 Menghan Song , Zhaoyi Zeng , Ting-Tung Wang , Yi-Zhuang You , Zi Yang Meng , Pengfei Zhang

Describing dynamics of quantum many-body systems is a formidable challenge due to rapid generation of quantum entanglement between remote degrees of freedom. A promising approach to tackle this challenge, which has been proposed recently,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Alessio Lerose , Michael Sonner , Dmitry A. Abanin

We present a general variational approach to determine the steady state of open quantum lattice systems via a neural network approach. The steady-state density matrix of the lattice system is constructed via a purified neural network ansatz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-03 Filippo Vicentini , Alberto Biella , Nicolas Regnault , Cristiano Ciuti

Variational Monte Carlo (VMC) methods are used to sample classically from distributions corresponding to quantum states which have an efficient classical description. VMC methods are based on performing a number of steps of a Markov chain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Ashley Montanaro , Stasja Stanisic

Many-body quantum systems present a rich phenomenology which can be significantly altered when they are in contact with an environment. In order to study such setups, a number of approximations are usually performed, either concerning the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2019-01-10 Xiansong Xu , Juzar Thingna , Chu Guo , Dario Poletti

A fundamental longstanding problem in studying spin models is the efficient and accurate numerical simulation of the long-time behavior of larger systems. The exponential growth of the Hilbert space and the entanglement accumulation at long…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-14 Aditya Dubey , Zeki Zeybek , Fabian Köhler , Rick Mukherjee , Peter Schmelcher

We describe a quantum trajectories technique for the unraveling of the quantum adiabatic master equation in Lindblad form. By evolving a complex state vector of dimension $N$ instead of a complex density matrix of dimension $N^2$,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Ka Wa Yip , Tameem Albash , Daniel A. Lidar

Analog Quantum Simulators offer a route to exploring strongly correlated many-body dynamics beyond classical computation, but their predictive power remains limited by the absence of quantitative error estimation. Establishing rigorous…

A wide class of non-Markovian completely positive master equations can be formulated on the basis of quantum collisional models. In this phenomenological approach the dynamics of an open quantum system is modeled through an ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Adrian A. Budini

Stochastic unravelings provide a useful way to represent open quantum system dynamics in terms of pure state realizations, and have been widely studied both from a fundamental and from a computational point of view. They were initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Federico Settimo , Jyrki Piilo

We present a numerical method to approximate the long-time asymptotic solution $\rho_\infty(t)$ to the Lindblad master equation for an open quantum system under the influence of an external drive. The proposed scheme uses perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Brian Baker , Andy C. Y. Li , Nicholas Irons , Nathan Earnest , Jens Koch

We present a unified theory of the variational Monte Carlo (VMC) and determinant quantum Monte Carlo (DQMC) methods using a novel density matrix formulation of VMC. We introduce an efficient algorithm for VMC to compute correlation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-02 Mohammad-Sadegh Vaezi , Abolhassan Vaezi

We use Monte Carlo simulations to demonstrate generic scaling aspects of classical phase transitions approached through a quench (or annealing) protocol where the temperature changes as a function of time with velocity $v$. Using a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-25 Cheng-Wei Liu , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Anders W. Sandvik

We develop a systematic field-theoretical approach to open quantum systems based on condensed-matter many-body methods. The time evolution of the reduced density matrix for the open quantum system is determined by a transmission matrix.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-09 Hans C. Fogedby

We present a statistical framework for extracting spatially resolved entanglement directly from an ensemble of marginal (one-body) wavefunctions in Time-Dependent Quantum Monte Carlo (TDQMC). Treating the guide waves as a statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ivan P. Christov

Quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) methods are essential for the numerical study of large-scale quantum many-body systems, yet their utility has been significantly hampered by the difficulty in computing key quantities such as off-diagonal operators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Poetri Sonya Tarabunga , Yi-Ming Ding

We investigate in this work a recently proposed diagrammatic quantum Monte Carlo method --- the inchworm Monte Carlo method --- for open quantum systems. We establish its validity rigorously based on resummation of Dyson series. Moreover,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-18 Zhenning Cai , Jianfeng Lu , Siyao Yang

This topical review describes the methodology of continuum variational and diffusion quantum Monte Carlo calculations. These stochastic methods are based on many-body wave functions and are capable of achieving very high accuracy. The…

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