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We develop an exact framework to describe the non-Markovian dynamics of an open quantum system interacting with an environment modeled by a generalized spectral density function. The approach relies on mapping the initial system onto an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-22 Graeme Pleasance , Barry M. Garraway , Francesco Petruccione

Quadratic systems with lossless quadratic terms arise in many applications, including models of atmosphere and incompressible fluid flows. Such systems have a trapping region if all trajectories eventually converge to and stay within a…

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With their constantly increasing peak performance and memory capacity, modern supercomputers offer new perspectives on numerical studies of open many-body quantum systems. These systems are often modeled by using Markovian quantum master…

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We present a relaxation-based method to bound expectation values on the steady state of dissipative many-body quantum systems described by master equations of the Lindblad form. Instead of targeting to represent the entire state, we promote…

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This work introduces a general framework for establishing the long time accuracy for approximations of Markovian dynamical systems on separable Banach spaces. Our results illuminate the role that a certain uniformity in Wasserstein…

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This paper concerns parameterized convex infinite (or semi-infinite) inequality systems whose decision variables run over general infinite-dimensional Banach (resp. finite-dimensional) spaces and that are indexed by an arbitrary fixed set T…

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We investigate the problem of best-policy identification in discounted Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) when the learner has access to a generative model. The objective is to devise a learning algorithm returning the best policy as early as…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-05-11 Aymen Al Marjani , Alexandre Proutiere

The Lindblad equation generalizes the Schr\"{o}dinger equation to quantum systems that undergo dissipative dynamics. The quantum simulation of Lindbladian dynamics is therefore non-unitary, preventing a naive application of state-of-the-art…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Matthew Pocrnic , Dvira Segal , Nathan Wiebe

We discuss how semidefinite programming can be used to determine the second-order density matrix directly through a variational optimization. We show how the problem of characterizing a physical or N -representable density matrix leads to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 Brecht Verstichel , Helen van Aggelen , Dimitri Van Neck , Paul W. Ayers , Patrick Bultinck

Programmability is a unifying paradigm for enacting families of quantum transformations via fixed processors and program states, with a fundamental role and broad impact in quantum computation and control. While there has been a shift from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Mingrui Jing , Mengbo Guo , Lin Zhu , Hongshun Yao , Xin Wang

We introduce a machine-learning approach for identifying hidden structural features of open quantum dynamics under restricted experimental access. Unlike most existing data-driven methods which focus on detection or prediction of dynamical…

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Many current problems of interest in quantum non-equilibrium are described by time-local master equations (TLMEs) for the density matrix that are not of the Lindblad form, that is, that are not strictly probability conserving and/or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-25 Michael R. Hush , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

Quantum systems interacting with an unknown environment are notoriously difficult to model, especially in presence of non-Markovian and non-perturbative effects. Here we introduce a neural network based approach, which has the mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-16 Leonardo Banchi , Edward Grant , Andrea Rocchetto , Simone Severini

We present embedding procedures for the non-Markovian stochastic Schr\"{o}dinger equations, arising from studies of quantum systems coupled with bath environments. By introducing auxiliary wave functions, it is demonstrated that the…

Computational Physics · Physics 2020-05-04 Xiantao Li

This paper presents a data-driven approach to learn latent dynamics in superconducting quantum computing hardware. To this end, we augment the dynamical equation of quantum systems described by the Lindblad master equation with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Sohail Reddy , Stefanie Guenther , Yujin Cho

In this study, we investigate the application of Semidefinite Programming (SDP) to phylogenetics. SDP is a powerful optimization framework that seeks to optimize a linear objective function over the cone of positive semidefinite matrices.…

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Accurate models of the dynamics of quantum circuits are essential for optimizing and advancing quantum devices. Since first-principles models of environmental noise and dissipation in real quantum systems are often unavailable, deriving…

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