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To extend the classical concept of Markovianity to an open quantum system, different notions of the divisibility of its dynamics have been introduced. Here we analyze this issue by five complementary approaches: equations of motion,…

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Evolutions under non-Hermitian Hamiltonians with unbroken $\mathcal{PT}$ symmetry can be considered unitary under appropriate choices of inner products, facilitated by the so-called metric operator. While it is understood that the choice of…

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The Lindblad equation is widely employed in studies of Markovian quantum open systems. Here, firstly, a simple result is presented on the time evolution of the non Neumann entropy under the Lindblad equation, which enables one to examine if…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-18 Congjie Ou , Ralph V. Chamberlin , Sumiyoshi Abe

The development of non-Hermitian topological band theory has led to observations of novel topological phenomena in effectively classical, driven and dissipative systems. However, for open quantum many-body systems, the absence of a ground…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Sharareh Sayyad , Jinlong Yu , Adolfo G. Grushin , Lukas M. Sieberer

We describe how to implement the time-dependent variational principle for matrix product states in the thermodynamic limit for nonuniform lattice systems. This is achieved by confining the nonuniformity to a (dynamically growable) finite…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-10-18 Ashley Milsted , Jutho Haegeman , Tobias J. Osborne , Frank Verstraete

Quantum systems with a non-conserved probability can be described by means of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians and non-unitary dynamics. In this paper, the case in which the degrees of freedom can be partitioned in two subsets with light and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-21 Alessandro Sergi

Motivated by experiments on chains of superconducting qubits, we consider the dynamics of a classical Klein-Gordon chain coupled to coherent driving and subject to dissipation solely at its boundaries. As the strength of the boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-20 Abhinav Prem , Vir B. Bulchandani , S. L. Sondhi

The construction of exactly-solvable models has recently been advanced by considering integrable $T\bar{T}$ deformations and related Hamiltonian deformations in quantum mechanics. We introduce a broader class of non-Hermitian Hamiltonian…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-18 Apollonas S. Matsoukas-Roubeas , Federico Roccati , Julien Cornelius , Zhenyu Xu , Aurelia Chenu , Adolfo del Campo

The time evolution of periodically driven non-Hermitian systems is in general non-unitary but can be stable. It is hence of considerable interest to examine the adiabatic following dynamics in periodically driven non-Hermitian systems. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Jiangbin Gong , Qing-hai Wang

The non-hermitian quantum dynamics of excitonic energy transfer in photosynthetic systems is investigated using a dissipative two-level dimer model. The approach is based on the Green's function formalism which permits consideration of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 A. Thilagam

Driven-dissipative qubit-resonator dynamics, which are the basis of most dispersive superconducting qubit measurement schemes, are often modeled with Lindblad master equations built from subsystem local jump operators, even when the qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Prakritish Gogoi , Angela Riva , Émile Cochin , Alex Chin

In the thermodynamic limit, the steady states of open quantum many-body systems can undergo nonequilibrium phase transitions due to a competition between coherent and driven-dissipative dynamics. Here, we consider Markovian systems and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-04 Thomas Barthel , Yikang Zhang

The intriguing physical phenomena associated with exceptional points have established non-Hermitian physics as a frontier of modern research. Recent investigations have extended non-Hermitian physics into the fully quantum domain. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Pei-Rong Han , Huiye Qiu , Hao-Long Zhang , Wen Ning , Zhen-Biao Yang , Shi-Biao Zheng

If an open quantum system is initially uncorrelated from its environment, then its dynamics can be written in terms of a Lindblad-form master equation. The master equation is divided into a unitary piece, represented by an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Patrick Hayden , Jonathan Sorce

We unveil an exotic phenomenon arising from the intricate interplay between non-Hermiticity and many-body physics, namely an occupation-dependent particle separation for hardcore bosons in a one-dimensional lattice driven by uni-directional…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-03-08 Yi Qin , Linhu Li

In this article, we investigate periodically driven open quantum systems within the framework of Floquet-Lindblad master equations. Specifically, we discuss Lindblad master equations in the presence of a coherent, time-periodic driving and…

Time-resolved photoemission spectroscopy provides a unique and direct way to explore the real-time nonequilibrium dynamics of electrons and holes. The formal theory of the spectral function evolution requires inclusion of electronic…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-09 Thomas Blommel , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Vojtěch Vlček

Modeling the non-equilibrium dissipative dynamics of strongly interacting quantized degrees of freedom is a fundamental problem in several branches of physics and chemistry. We implement a quantum state trajectory scheme for solving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Johan F. Triana , Felipe Herrera

Linear response theory lies at the heart of quantum many-body physics because it builds up connections between the dynamical response to an external probe and correlation functions at equilibrium. Here we consider the dynamical response of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-08 Lei Pan , Xin Chen , Yu Chen , Hui Zhai

We study shortcuts to adiabaticity (STAs) through counterdiabatic driving in quantum critical systems in the presence of dissipation. We evaluate unitary as well as nonunitary controls, such that the system density matrix follows a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-06 Shishira Mahunta , Victor Mukherjee