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The time-convolutionless quantum master equation is an exact description of the nonequilibrium dynamics of open quantum systems, with the advantage of being local in time. We derive a perturbative expansion to arbitrary order in the…

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Stochastic Schr{\"o}dinger equations for quantum trajectories offer an alternative and sometimes superior approach to the study of open quantum system dynamics. Here we show that recently established convolutionless non-Markovian stochastic…

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A quantum system that interacts with an environment generally undergoes nonunitary evolution described by a non-Markovian or Markovian master equation. In this paper, we construct the non-Markovian Redfield master equation for a quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-13 Brenden Bowen , Nishant Agarwal , Archana Kamal

Describing open quantum systems far from equilibrium is challenging, in particular when the environment is mesoscopic, when it develops nonequilibrium features during the evolution, or when the memory effects cannot be disregarded. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Andreu Riera-Campeny , Anna Sanpera , Philipp Strasberg

Quantum simulation of non-Markovian open quantum dynamics is essential but challenging for standard quantum computers due to their non-Hermitian nature, leading to non-unitary evolution, and the limitations of available quantum resources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Yukai Guo , Xing Gao

A perturbative quantum master equation is derived for a system interacting with its environment, which is more general than the ones derived before. Our master equation takes into account the effect of the energy exchanges between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Esposito , P. Gaspard

Exact master equations describing the decay of a two-state system into a structured reservoir are constructed. Employing the exact solution for the model we determine analytical expressions for the memory kernel of the Nakajima-Zwanzig…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-10-04 Bassano Vacchini , Heinz-Peter Breuer

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-20 Markus Kraft , Mariel Kempa , Jiaozi Wang , Robin Steinigeweg

Master equations are commonly used to describe time evolution of open systems. We introduce a general method for calculating a Markovian solution of the Nakajima-Zwanzig generalized master equation. We do so for a time dependent transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Thorsteinn H. Jonsson , Andrei Manolescu , Hsi-Sheng Goan , Nzar Rauf Abdullah , Anna Sitek , Chi-Shung Tang , Vidar Gudmundsson

We construct a quantum Markovian Master equation for a driven system coupled to a thermal bath. The derivation utilizes an explicit solution of the propagator of the driven system. This enables the validity of the Master equation to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Roie Dann , Amikam Levy , Ronnie Kosloff

In this article we investigate driven dissipative quantum dynamics of an ensemble of two-level systems given by a Markovian master equation with collective and non-collective dissipators. Exploiting the permutation symmetry in our model, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Konrad Merkel , Valentin Link , Kimmo Luoma , Walter T. Strunz

Diagonalization of the effective Hamiltonian describing an open quantum system is the usual method of tracking its exceptional points. Although, such a method is successful for tracking EPs in Markovian systems, it may be problematic in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 G. Mouloudakis , P. Lambropoulos

A non-Markovian stochastic Schroedinger equation for a quantum system coupled to an environment of harmonic oscillators is presented. Its solutions, when averaged over the noise, reproduce the standard reduced density operator without any…

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

Energy dissipation in a nonequilibrium steady state is studied in driven quantum Langevin systems. We study energy dissipation flow to thermal environment, and obtain a general formula for the average rate of energy dissipation using an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Keiji Saito

Dynamics of a state of interest coupled to a non-Markovian environment is studied for the first time by concatenating the non-Markovian quantum state diffusion (QSD) equation and the Feshbach projection operator partitioning technique. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-05 Jun Jing , Lian-Ao Wu , J. Q. You , Ting Yu

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…

Non-Markovian dynamics is studied for two interacting quibts strongly coupled to a dissipative bosonic environment. For the first time, we have derived the non-Markovian quantum state diffusion (QSD) equation for the coupled two-qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-09-07 Xinyu Zhao , Jun Jing , Brittany Corn , Ting Yu

We derive a completely positive post-Markovian master equation (PMME) from a microscopic Markovian collisional model framework, incorporating bath memory effects via a probabilistic single-shot measurement approach. This phenomenological…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Tanmay Saha , Sahil , K. P. Athulya , Sibasish Ghosh

We use the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis to derive a quantum master equation for a system weakly coupled to a chaotic finite-sized bath prepared in a pure state. We show that the emergence of Markovianity is controlled by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Peter O'Donovan , Philipp Strasberg , Kavan Modi , John Goold , Mark T. Mitchison

Quantum Brownian motion of a harmonic oscillator in the Markovian approximation is described by the respective Caldeira-Leggett master equation. This master equation can be brought into Lindblad form by adding a position diffusion term to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-20 J. Z. Bernád , G. Homa , M. A. Csirik