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Open quantum systems that feature non-Markovian dynamics are routinely solved using techniques such as the Hierarchical Equations of Motion (HEOM). However, their usage of the entire system density-matrix renders them intractable for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Kai Müller , Kimmo Luoma , Christian Schäfer

In this paper, two developments, the theory of hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) for open quantum dynamics systems and the theory of ultrafast nonlinear two-dimensional (2D) spectroscopies, are described, following the history of…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-11-12 Yoshitaka Tanimura

Here we show how, in the ultra-strongly-coupled spin-boson model, apparently unphysical "Matsubara modes" are required not only to regulate detailed balance, but also to arrive at a correct and physical description of the non-perturbative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-05 Neill Lambert , Shahnawaz Ahmed , Mauro Cirio , Franco Nori

The time evolution in open quantum systems, such as a molecular aggregate in contact with a thermal bath, still poses a complex and challenging problem. The influence of the thermal noise can be treated using a plethora of schemes, several…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 Hasan Rahman , Ulrich Kleinekathoefer

A hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) based numerical approach is developed for accurate and efficient evaluation of dynamical observables of strongly correlated quantum impurity systems. This approach is capable of describing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-28 ZhenHua Li , NingHua Tong , Xiao Zheng , Dong Hou , JianHua Wei , Jie Hu , YiJing Yan

We present a new approach to calculate real-time quantum dynamics in complex systems. The formalism is based on the partitioning of a system's environment into "core" and "reservoir" modes, with the former to be treated quantum mechanically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Timothy C. Berkelbach , David R. Reichman , Thomas E. Markland

Discretizing a distribution function in a phase space for an efficient quantum dynamics simulation is a non-trivial challenge, in particular for a case that a system is further coupled to environmental degrees of freedom. Such open quantum…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-14 Yuki Iwamoto , Yoshitaka Tanimura

We investigate a three-dimensional subsystem under a time-dependent U(1) gauge field coupled to rotationally invariant environments. To capture the dynamic behavior of the subsystem under thermal excitations and dissipations, it is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-15 Hyeonseok Yang , Shoki Koyanagi , Yoshitaka Tanimura

Studies of quantum thermal effects on molecular excitation dynamics have often relied on oversimplified models, such as energy eigenstates or low-dimensional potentials, which fail to capture the complexity of real chemical systems. In…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Yankai Zhang , Yoshitaka Tanimura , So Hirata

A nonperturbative quantum impurity solver is proposed based on a formally exact hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) formalism for open quantum systems. It leads to quantitatively accurate evaluation of physical properties of strongly…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2014-08-04 Dong Hou , Rulin Wang , Xiao Zheng , NingHua Tong , JianHua Wei , YiJing Yan

A well-known approach to describe the dynamics of an open quantum system is to compute the master equation evolving the reduced density matrix of the system. This approach plays an important role in describing excitation transfer through…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 Kimara Naicker , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

We present and analyze the fermionic time evolving density matrix using orthogonal polynomials algorithm (fTEDOPA), which enables the numerically exact simulation of open quantum systems coupled to a fermionic environment. The method allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-08 Alexander Nüßeler , Ish Dhand , Susana F. Huelga , Martin B. Plenio

An open quantum system refers to a system, which is in turn coupled to an environment that can describe time irreversible dynamics through which the system evolves toward the thermal equilibrium state. We present a quantum mechanically…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-02 Hideaki Takahashi , Yoshitaka Tanimura

This paper extends the previously reported theory of dissipation pathways [J. Chem. Phys. 160, 214111 (2024)] to incorporate off-diagonal subsystem-bath coupling, which is often required to model molecular systems where the environment…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-01-26 Ignacio Gustin , Chang Woo Kim , Ignacio Franco

We investigate strategies for simulating open quantum systems coupled to dissipative baths by comparing explicit wave function-based discretization [via multi-layer multi-configuration time-dependent Hartree (ML-MCTDH)] and the implicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Xinxian Chen , Ignacio Franco

The theory of hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) is one of the standard methods to give exact evaluations of the dynamics as coupled to harmonic oscillator environments. However, the theory is numerically demanding due to its…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Tatsushi Ikeda , Akira Nakayama

A recently developed approach to the thermodynamics of open quantum systems, on the basis of the principle of minimal dissipation, is applied to the spin-boson model. Employing a numerically exact quantum dynamical treatment based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Salvatore Gatto , Alessandra Colla , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Michael Thoss

Matsubara dynamics is the classical dynamics which results when imaginary-time path-integrals are smoothed; it conserves the quantum Boltzmann distribution and appears in drastically approximated form in path-integral dynamics methods such…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-05-05 Adam Prada , Eszter S. Pós , Stuart C. Althorpe

For a system strongly coupled to a heat bath, the quantum coherence of the system and the heat bath plays an important role in the system dynamics. This is particularly true in the case of non-Markovian noise. We rigorously investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-02-16 Yoshitaka Tanimura

Dirac-Frenkel variational method with Davydov D2 trial wavefunction is extended by introducing a thermalization algorithm and applied to simulate dynamics of a general open quantum system. The algorithm allows to control temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Mantas Jakučionis , Darius Abramavičius