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A systematic first-order correction to the standard Markov master equation for open quantum systems interacting with a bosonic bath is presented. It extends the Markov Lindblad master equation to the more general case of non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Ting Yu , Lajos Diosi , Nicolas Gisin , Walter T. Strunz

We study the open system dynamics of a heavy quark in the quark-gluon plasma using a Lindblad master equation. Applying the quantum state diffusion approach by Gisin and Percival, we derive and numerically solve a nonlinear stochastic…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2018-08-01 Yukinao Akamatsu , Masayuki Asakawa , Shiori Kajimoto , Alexander Rothkopf

Recent advances in quantum technologies and related experiments have created a need for highly accurate, versatile, and computationally efficient simulation techniques for the dynamics of open quantum systems. Long-lived correlation effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Meng Xu , Vasilii Vadimov , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold

It is a central problem in various fields of physics to elucidate the behavior of quantum many-body systems subjected to bulk dissipation. In this context, several microscopic derivations of the Lindblad quantum master equation for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-30 Teruhiro Ikeuchi , Takashi Mori

We discuss mapping the Bloch-Redfield master-equation to Lindblad form and then unravelling the resulting evolution into a stochastic Schr\"odinger equation according to the quantum-jump method. We give two approximations under which this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-09 Nicolas Vogt , Jan Jeske , Jared H. Cole

Redfield theory provides a closed kinetic description of a quantum system in weak contact with a very dense reservoir. Landau-Zener theory does the same for a time-dependent driven system in contact with a sparse reservoir. Using a simple…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-22 Juzar Thingna , Felipe Barra , Massimiliano Esposito

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

We examine the effectiveness of Lindblad master equation in capturing the short-time dynamics of entanglement and purity in open quantum systems. Focusing on two interacting two-level systems interacting with a larger environment, we…

We introduce a variational hybrid classical-quantum algorithm to simulate the Lindblad master equation and its adjoint for time-evolving Markovian open quantum systems and quantum observables. Our method is based on a direct representation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Tasneem Watad , Netanel H. Lindner

We present a unified many-body perturbation theory for open quantum systems, that treats dissipation, correlations, and external driving on equal footing. Using a Keldysh-Lindblad formalism, we introduce diagrammatic treatment of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-17 Thomas Blommel , Enrico Perfetto , Gianluca Stefanucci , Vojtech Vlcek

The Lindblad equation is a widely used quantum master equation to model the dynamical evolution of open quantum systems whose states are described by density matrices. This equation is also a fundamental building block to design optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Hao Chen , Alfio Borzi

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

Completely positive, trace preserving (CPT) maps and Lindblad master equations are both widely used to describe the dynamics of open quantum systems. The connection between these two descriptions is a classic topic in mathematical physics.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-02-22 Toby S. Cubitt , Jens Eisert , Michael M. Wolf

Developing accurate and computationally inexpensive models for the dynamics of open-quantum systems is critical in designing new qubit platforms by first understanding their mechanisms of decoherence and dephasing. Current models based on…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-30 Nima Leclerc

The coherent quantum dynamics of a single bosonic spin variable, subject to a constraint derived from the quantum spherical model of a ferromagnet, and coupled to an external heat bath, is studied through the Lindblad equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-12 Sascha Wald , Malte Henkel

In this paper, we investigate the problem of simulating open system dynamics governed by the well-known Lindblad master equation. In our prequel paper, we introduced an input model in which Lindblad operators are encoded into pure quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-14 Dhrumil Patel , Mark M. Wilde

We derive a non-perturbative, closed, analytic equation for the non-linear power spectrum of cosmic density fluctuations. This result is based on our kinetic field theory (KFT) of cosmic structure formation and on evaluating particle…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-23 Matthias Bartelmann , Felix Fabis , Sara Konrad , Elena Kozlikin , Robert Lilow , Carsten Littek , Johannes Dombrowski

A projection operator is introduced, which exactly transforms the inhomogeneous Nakajima--Zwanzig generalized master equation for the relevant part of a system +bath statistical operator, containing the inhomogeneous irrelevant term…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 Victor F. Los

The dissipative dynamics of many-electron systems interacting with a thermal environment has remained a long-standing challenge within time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT). Recently, the formal foundations of open quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 David G. Tempel , Alán Aspuru-Guzik

Redfield master equation was applied to study the dynamics of an ensemble of interacting pairs of unlike spins at room temperature. This spin quantum system is a workbench quantum model to analyze the relaxation dynamics of a heteronuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 A. Consuelo-Leal , Hugo D. Fernández Sare , R. Auccaise