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Simulating the dynamics of open quantum systems is a crucial task in quantum computing, offering wide-ranging applications but remaining computationally challenging. In this paper, we propose two quantum algorithms for simulating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Sirui Peng , Xiaoming Sun , Qi Zhao , Hongyi Zhou

We consider a frictionless system coupled to an external Markovian environment. The quantum and classical evolution of such systems are described by the Lindblad and the Fokker-Planck equation respectively. We show that when such a system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Zhenhao Li

It is shown that the Lindblad equation accounts for memory effects. That is to say, Lindblad operators can be constructed in a natural manner such that a memory term appears in the asymptotic (infinite time) region; at the same time the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Klaus Dietz

We consider the simple hypothesis of letting quantum systems have an inherent random nature. Using well-known stochastic methods we thus derive a stochastic evolution operator which let us define a stochastic density operator whose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Salgado , J. L. Sanchez-Gomez

We study thermalization in open quantum systems using the Lindblad formalism. A method that both thermalizes and couples to Lindblad operators only at edges of the system is introduced. Our method leads to a Gibbs state of the system,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-11 Israel Reichental , Anat Klempner , Yariv Kafri , Daniel Podolsky

The thermodynamic properties of Davydov-Scott monomer contacting with thermal bath is investigated using Lindblad open quantum system formalism. The Lindblad equation is investigated through path integral method. It is found that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-15 A. Sulaiman , F. P Zen , H. Alatas , L. T. Handoko

Semigroups describing the time evolution of open quantum systems in finite dimensional spaces have generators of a special form, known as Lindblad generators. The simple generators, characterized by only one operator, are analyzed. The…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-06-20 Bernhard Baumgartner , Heide Narnhofer , Walter Thirring

In this paper, we develop a blended dynamics framework for open quantum networks with diffusive couplings. The network consists of qubits interconnected through Hamiltonian couplings, environmental dissipation, and consensus-like diffusive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Qinghao Wen , Zihao Ren , Lei Wang , Hyungbo Shim , Guodong Shi

We study the quantum speed limit for open quantum systems described by the Lindblad master equation. The obtained inequality shows a trade-off relation between the operation time and the physical quantities such as the energy fluctuation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-14 Ken Funo , Naoto Shiraishi , Keiji Saito

We are interested in the simulation of open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad master equation in an infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. To simulate the solution of this equation, the standard approach involves two sequential…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Paul-Louis Etienney , Rémi Robin , Pierre Rouchon

We consider an open quantum system governed $N$-body Lindblad equation and study mean-field limits in this setting. We prove that the $N$-particle dynamics converges, in the sense of quantum relative entropy, to the tensorized solution of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Nina H. Amini , Sofiane Chalal

A wide class of non-Markovian completely positive master equations can be formulated on the basis of quantum collisional models. In this phenomenological approach the dynamics of an open quantum system is modeled through an ensemble of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-26 Adrian A. Budini

We consider a composite open quantum system consisting of a fast subsystem coupled to a slow one. Using the time-scale separation, we develop an adiabatic elimination technique to derive at any order the reduced model describing the slow…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-11 Remi Azouit , Francesca Chittaro , Alain Sarlette , Pierre Rouchon

Analyzing routes of transport for open quantum systems with non-equilibrium initial conditions is extremely challenging. The state-to-state approach [A. Bose, and P.L. Walters, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2023, 19, 15, 4828-4836] has proven to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Devansh Sharma , Amartya Bose

We study joint measurability of quantum observables in open systems governed by a master equation of Lindblad form. We briefly review the historical perspective of open systems and conceptual aspects of quantum measurements, focusing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-13 Jukka Kiukas , Pekka Lahti , Juha-Pekka Pellonpää

Path integral molecular dynamics (PIMD), which maps a quantum particle onto a fictitious classical system of ring polymers and propagates the "beads" of this extended classical system using molecular dynamics, is widely used to capture…

Environmental noise on a controlled quantum system is generally modeled by a dissipative Lindblad equation. This equation describes the average state of the system via the density matrix $\rho$. One way of deriving this Lindblad equation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-04 Robert de Keijzer , Luke Visser , Oliver Tse , Servaas Kokkelmans

We study composite open quantum systems with a finite-dimensional state space ${\mathcal H}_A\otimes {\mathcal H}_B$ governed by a Lindblad equation $\rho'(t) = {\mathcal L}_\gamma \rho(t)$ where ${\mathcal L}_\gamma\rho = -i[H,\rho] +…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Eric A. Carlen , David A. Huse , Joel L. Lebowitz

A general theoretical approach to study the quantum kinetics in a system coupled to a bath is proposed. Starting with the microscopic interaction, a Lindblad master equation is established, which goes beyond the common secular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Gediminas Kiršanskas , Martin Franckié , Andreas Wacker

We characterize nonequilibrium phases in long-range dissipative spin systems through the statistical properties of quantum jump trajectories. While the average dynamics governed by the Lindblad master equation provides access to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-14 Giulia Salatino , Anna Delmonte , Zejian Li , Rosario Fazio , Alberto Biella