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Quantum collision models are receiving increasing attention as they describe many nontrivial phenomena in dynamics of open quantum systems. In a general scenario of both fundamental and practical interest, a quantum system repeatedly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-07 Sergey N. Filippov , Ilia A. Luchnikov

We consider the dynamics of a collisional model in which both the system and environment are embodied by spin-$1/2$ particles. In order to include non-Markovian features in our model we introduce interactions among the environmental qubits…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-15 B. Çakmak , M. Pezzutto , M. Paternostro , Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We present a general theory of non-Markovian dynamics for open quantum systems. We explore the non-Markovian dynamics by connecting the exact master equations with the non-equilibirum Green functions. Environmental back-actions are fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Wei-Min Zhang , Ping-Yuan Lo , Heng-Na Xiong , Matisse Wei-Yuan Tu , Franco Nori

We investigate the conditions under which the trace distance between two different states of a given open system increases in time due to the interaction with an environment, therefore signalling non-Markovianity. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Andrea Smirne , Laura Mazzola , Mauro Paternostro , Bassano Vacchini

Non-Markovian dynamics is central to quantum information processing, as memory effects strongly influence coherence preservation, metrology, and communication. In this work, we investigate the role of stochastic system--bath couplings in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Mehboob Rashid , Rayees A Mala , Saima Bashir , Muzaffar Qadir Lone

Stochastic unravelings provide a useful way to represent open quantum system dynamics in terms of pure state realizations, and have been widely studied both from a fundamental and from a computational point of view. They were initially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Federico Settimo , Jyrki Piilo

Collision models (CMs) describe an open system interacting in sequence with elements of an environment, termed ancillas. They have been established as a useful tool for analyzing non-Markovian open quantum dynamics based on the ability to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Graeme Pleasance , Angel E. Neira , Marco Merkli , Francesco Petruccione

We put forward a framework to study the dynamics of a chain of interacting quantum particles affected by individual or collective multi-mode environment, focussing on the role played by the environmental quantum correlations over the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-08 Salvatore Lorenzo , Francesco Plastina , Mauro Paternostro

Recently, a large class of quantum non-Markovian piecewise dynamics for an open quantum system obeying closed evolution equations has been introduced [B. Vacchini, Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 230401 (2016)]. These dynamics have been defined in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Salvatore Lorenzo , Francesco Ciccarello , G. Massimo Palma , Bassano Vacchini

Controlling dynamical fluctuations in open quantum systems is essential both for our comprehension of quantum nonequilibrium behaviour and for its possible application in near-term quantum technologies. However, understanding these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-10-07 Federico Carollo , Carlos Pérez-Espigares

Tracing out the environmental degrees of freedom is a necessary procedure when simulating open quantum systems. While being an essential step in deriving a tractable master equation it represents a loss of information. In situations where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-02 Dominic Gribben , Aidan Strathearn , Gerald E. Fux , Peter Kirton , Brendon W. Lovett

The information encoded into an open quantum system that evolves under a Markovian dynamics is always monotonically non-increasing. Nonetheless, for a given quantifier of the information contained in the system, it is in general not clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Dario De Santis , Markus Johansson

Detuned systems can spontaneously achieve a synchronous dynamics and display robust quantum correlations in different local and global dissipation regimes. Beyond the Markovian limit, information backflow from the environment becomes a…

As quantum analogs of the classical Kolmogorov-Sinai entropy, quantum dynamical entropies have emerged as important tools to characterize complex quantum dynamics. In particular, Alicki-Fannes-Lindblad (AFL) entropy, which quantifies the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Eric D. Schultz , Keiichiro Furuya , Laimei Nie

We consider a class of open quantum many-body systems that evolves in a Markovian fashion, the dynamical generator being in GKS-Lindblad form. Here, the Hamiltonian contribution is characterized by an all-to-all coupling, and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-02 Eliana Fiorelli

The non-Markovian nature of open quantum dynamics lies in the structure of the multitime correlations, which are accessible by means of interventions. Here, by examining multitime correlations, we show that it is possible to engineer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Daniel Burgarth , Paolo Facchi , Davide Lonigro , Kavan Modi

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a central field for understanding how energy conversion processes occur in microscopic systems. In these systems, effects such as coherence, entanglement, and non-Markovianity play key roles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca

This work presents a general unifying theoretical framework for quantum non-equilibrium systems. It is based on a re-statement of the dynamical problem as one of inferring the distribution of collision events that move a system toward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-30 David M. Rogers

The Lindblad equation is commonly used for studying quantum dynamics in open systems that cannot be completely isolated from an environment, relevant to a broad variety of research fields, such as atomic physics, materials science, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Zhu Ruan , Roi Baer

Understanding how external driving and dissipation jointly influence the dynamics of open quantum systems is essential for advancing the study of non-equilibrium quantum phenomena and developing quantum technologies. The present study…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Roie Dann