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The Lindblad quantum master equation is one of the central approaches to the physics of open quantum systems. In particular, boundary driving enables the study of transport, where a steady state emerges in the long-time limit, which…

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We consider a fermionic quantum system exchanging particles with an environment at a fixed temperature and study its reduced evolution by means of a Redfield-I equation with time-dependent (non-Markovian) coefficients. We find that the…

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We provide an explicit method for solving general markovian master equations for quadratic bosonic Hamiltonians with linear bath operators. As an example we consider a one-dimensional quantum harmonic oscillator chain coupled to thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Bojan Žunkovič , Tomaž Prosen

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,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Matteo Scandi , Álvaro M. Alhambra

The Lindblad master equation is one of the main approaches to open quantum systems. While it has been widely applied in the context of condensed matter systems to study properties of steady states in the limit of long times, the actual…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-07 Tjark Heitmann , Jonas Richter , Jacek Herbrych , Jochen Gemmer , Robin Steinigeweg

Quantum computing offers promising new avenues for tackling the long-standing challenge of simulating the quantum dynamics of complex chemical systems, particularly open quantum systems coupled to external baths. However, simulating such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Xiaohan Dan , Eitan Geva , Victor S. Batista

In this article we revisit the theory of open quantum systems from the perspective of fermionic baths. Specifically, we concentrate on the dynamics of a central spin half particle interacting with a spin bath. We have calculated the exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Subhashish Banerjee

Full information about a many-body quantum system is usually out-of-reach due to the exponential growth -- with the size of the system -- of the number of parameters needed to encode its state. Nonetheless, in order to understand the…

Understanding the precise interaction mechanisms between quantum systems and their environment is crucial for advancing stable quantum technologies, designing reliable experimental frameworks, and building accurate models of real-world…

We compare different quantum Master equations for the time evolution of the reduced density matrix. The widely applied secular approximation (rotating wave approximation) applied in combination with the Born-Markov approximation generates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 Gernot Schaller , Tobias Brandes

The Lindblad master equation is a fundamental tool for describing the evolution of open quantum systems, but its computational complexity poses a significant challenge, especially for large systems. This article introduces a stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-04 Sayak Adhikari , Roi Baer

Non-Markovian open quantum systems represent the most general dynamics when the quantum system is coupled with a bath environment. The quantum dynamics arising from many important applications are non-Markovian. Although for special cases,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-01 Xiantao Li , Chunhao Wang

For multi-level open quantum system, the interaction between different levels could pose challenge to understand the quantum system both analytically and numerically. In this work, we study the approximation of the dynamics of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Yu Cao , Jianfeng Lu

Data of the numerical solution of the time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation of a system containing one spin-1/2 particle interacting with a bath of up to 32 spin-1/2 particles is used to construct a Markovian quantum master equation…

Computational Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 P. Zhao , H. De Raedt , S. Miyashita , F. Jin , K. Michielsen

Time-local quantum master equations that describe open quantum systems beyond the limit of ultraweak system-bath coupling are often not of Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) form. Prominent examples are the Redfield equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-22 Tobias Becker , André Eckardt

We derive a nonperturbative bound on the distance between evolutions of open quantum systems described by time-dependent generators. We show how this result can be employed to provide an explicit upper bound on the error of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Daniel Burgarth , Paolo Facchi , Giovanni Gramegna , Kazuya Yuasa

A novel method based on spectral Green functions is presented for the simulation of driven open quantum dynamics that can be described by the Lindblad master equation in Liouville density operator space. The method extends the Hilbert space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Alexander Karabanov , Walter Köckenberger

Quantum master equations are an invaluable tool to model the dynamics of a plethora of microscopic systems, ranging from quantum optics and quantum information processing, to energy and charge transport, electronic and nuclear spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Francesco Campaioli , Jared H. Cole , Harini Hapuarachchi

Providing entanglement for the design of quantum technologies in the presence of noise constitutes today's main challenge in quantum information science. A framework is required that assesses the build-up of entanglement in realistic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Julien Pinske , Laura Ares , Benjamin Hinrichs , Martin Kolb , Jan Sperling

Quantum master equations are commonly used to model the dynamics of open quantum systems, but their accuracy is rarely compared with the analytical solution of exactly solvable models. In this work, we perform such a comparison for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-04 Zihan Xia , Juan Garcia-Nila , Daniel Lidar