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We investigate the relation between non-Hermitian Hamiltonian and Lindblad dynamics in nonequilibrium open quantum systems. Non-Hermitian models can extend phase diagrams and enable sensing advantages, but such effects often rely on…

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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…

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We investigate the mechanisms necessary for the stabilization of complex quantum correlations by exploring dissipative couplings to nonreciprocal reservoirs. We analyze the role of locality in the coupling between the environment and the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-10-16 Catalin-Mihai Halati

The reduced dynamics of an open quantum system obtained from an underlying microscopic Hamiltonian can in general only approximately be described by a time local master equation. The quality of that approximation depends primarily on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-15 Richard Hartmann , Walter T. Strunz

We theoretically study the dissipative dynamics of a quantum emitter placed near the planar surface of a metal supporting surface plasmon excitations. The emitter-metal coupling regime can be tuned by varying some control parameters such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-10-26 Alejandro Gonzalez-Tudela , Ferney J. Rodriguez , Luis Quiroga , Carlos Tejedor

Open quantum systems provide an essential theoretical basis for the development of novel quantum technologies, since any real quantum system inevitably interacts with its environment. Lindblad master equations capture the effect of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Gary Schmiedinghoff , Götz S. Uhrig

We present a unitary framework for dissipative quantum dynamics that can be efficiently applied to large-scale Fermi systems. The method introduces local Hermitian operators that emulate frictional forces while strictly preserving the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 J. E. Alba-Arroyo , Daniel Pęcak , Michael McNeil Forbes , Gabriel Wlazłowski

Control of quantum dissipative systems can be challenging because control variables are typically part of the system Hamiltonian, which can only generate motion along unitary orbits of the system. To transit between orbits, one must harness…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-01-04 Patrick Rooney , Anthony Bloch , Chitra Rangan

The dissipative dynamics of a quantum bistable system coupled to a Ohmic heat bath is investigated beyond the spin-boson approximation. Within the path-integral approach to quantum dissipation, we propose an approximation scheme which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-19 Luca Magazzù , Davide Valenti , Bernardo Spagnolo , Milena Grifoni

We obtain a Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad -like master equation for two or more quantum systems connected locally to a combination of Markovian and non-Markovian heat baths. The master equation was originally formulated for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Ahana Ghoshal , Ujjwal Sen

Quantum dynamical maps provide suitable mathematical representation of quantum evolutions. It is the very notion of complete positivity which provides a proper mathematical representation of quantum evolution and gives rise to the powerful…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-30 Dariusz Chruściński

The macroscopic hydrodynamic equations are derived for many-body systems in the local-equilibrium approach, using the Schr\"odinger picture of quantum mechanics. In this approach, statistical operators are defined in terms of microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-01-18 Joël Mabillard , Pierre Gaspard

The complete positivity (CP) of a quantum dynamical map (QDM) is, in general, difficult to show when its master equation (ME) does not conform to the Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad (GKSL) form. The GKSL ME describes the Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Akane Watanabe , Takayuki Suzuki , Makoto Unoki , Hiromichi Nakazato

A finite-dimensional quantum system is coupled to a bath of oscillators in thermal equilibrium at temperature $T>0$. We show that for fixed, small values of the coupling constant $\lambda$, the true reduced dynamics of the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Marco Merkli

We investigate the long-time behavior of quantum Markovian dynamics generated by time-dependent Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (GKLS) master equations. We introduce a notion of weak relaxation and derive sufficient conditions…

This text is a short introduction to the physics of driven-dissipative many-body systems, focusing on a few selected topics. Beyond its more ``historical'' interest in the study of atomic physics and quantum optics, presently the modeling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-02 Fabrizio Minganti , Alberto Biella

In this paper, global well-posedness of the non-Markovian Unruh-Zurek and Hu-Paz-Zhang master equations with nonlinear electrostatic coupling is demonstrated. They both consist of a Wigner-Poisson like equation subjected to a dissipative…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-12-03 Miguel A. Alejo , José Luis López

We compare different quantum Master equations for the time evolution of the reduced density matrix. The widely applied secular approximation (rotating wave approximation) applied in combination with the Born-Markov approximation generates a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 Gernot Schaller , Tobias Brandes

We consider the Markovian Master Equation over matrix algebra $\mathbb{M}_d$, governed by periodic Lindbladian $L_t$ in standard (Kossakowski-Lindblad-Gorini-Sudarshan) form. It is shown that under simplifying assumption of commutativity,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Krzysztof Szczygielski

Open quantum systems are, in general, described by a density matrix that is evolving under transformations belonging to a dynamical semigroup. They can obey the Franke-Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (FGKLS) equation. We exhaustively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Alexander A. Andrianov , Mikhail V. Ioffe , Ekaterina A. Izotova , Oleg O. Novikov