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Open quantum systems are central to quantum optics, condensed matter, and chemistry, yet their simulation remains challenging for both classical and near-term quantum hardware. In this work we implement and execute utility-scale quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Benjamin Tirado , Joana Fraxanet , Adrián Juan-Delgado , Javier Aizpurua , Ruben Esteban

The non-Markovian behaviour of open quantum systems interacting with a reservoir can often be described in terms of a time-local master equation involving a time-dependent generator which is not in Lindblad form. A systematic perturbation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Andrea Ma , Francesco Petruccione

We present a collection of methods to simulate entangled dynamics of open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad equation with tensor network methods. Tensor network methods using matrix product states have been proven very useful to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-09 Daniel Jaschke , Simone Montangero , Lincoln D. Carr

We analyse the discrete-time dynamics of a model of non-interacting fermions coupled to an infinite reservoir formed by a bosonic quantum walk on ${\mathbb Z}$. This dynamics consists of consecutive applications of free evolutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Olivier Bourget , Alain Joye , Dominique Spehner

We establish the path integral approach for the time-dependent heat exchange of an externally driven quantum system coupled to a thermal reservoir. We derive the relevant influence functional and present an exact formal expression for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Carrega , P. Solinas , A. Braggio , M. Sassetti , U. Weiss

An approach to the simulation of locally interacting systems is demonstrated and assayed. The proposal is built upon the concept of folding of bosonic modes previously introduced in the context of linear dynamics and can be seen as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-13 Jose Reslen

We investigate the nature of memory effects in the non-Markovian dynamics of spin boson models. Local quantum memory criteria can be used to indicate that the reduced dynamics of an open system necessarily requires a quantum memory in its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Charlotte Bäcker , Valentin Link , Walter T. Strunz

Tensor network states and specifically matrix-product states have proven to be a powerful tool for simulating ground states of strongly correlated spin models. Recently, they have also been applied to interacting fermionic problems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-22 C. Krumnow , L. Veis , Ö. Legeza , J. Eisert

We show how to learn structures of generic, non-Markovian, quantum stochastic processes using a tensor network based machine learning algorithm. We do this by representing the process as a matrix product operator (MPO) and train it with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Chu Guo , Kavan Modi , Dario Poletti

This work is concerned with tree tensor network operators (TTNOs) for representing quantum Hamiltonians. We first establish a mathematical framework connecting tree topologies with state diagrams. Based on these, we devise an algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-09 Richard M. Milbradt , Qunsheng Huang , Christian B. Mendl

We introduce a general numerical method to compute dynamics and multi-time correlations of chains of quantum systems, where each system may couple strongly to a structured environment. The method combines the process tensor formalism for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Gerald E. Fux , Dainius Kilda , Brendon W. Lovett , Jonathan Keeling

In this article we extend the results presented in Ref. [Phys. Rev. A 76, 032101 (2007)] to treat quantitatively the effects of reservoirs at finite temperature in a bosonic dissipative network: a chain of coupled harmonic oscillators…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. A. de Ponte , S. S. Mizrahi , M. H. Y. Moussa

In order to model realistic quantum devices it is necessary to simulate quantum systems strongly coupled to their environment. To date, most understanding of open quantum systems is restricted either to weak system-bath couplings, or to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-25 Aidan Strathearn , Peter Kirton , Dainius Kilda , Jonathan Keeling , Brendon W. Lovett

Many-body approaches to open quantum systems have recently become powerful tools for investigating the detailed role of dissipative environments in diverse non-equilibrium molecular and condensed matter processes. Here, we report the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-15 Florian A. Y. N. Schröder , Alex W. Chin

We introduce a matrix product operator (MPO) encoding of the Magnus expansion and the Dyson series for one-dimensional quantum lattice models with time-dependent Hamiltonians. The MPO construction can be made accurate up to arbitrary order…

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

There is presently considerable interest in accurately simulating the evolution of open systems for which Markovian master equations fail. Examples are systems that are time-dependent and/or strongly damped. A number of elegant methods have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-23 Luciano Silvestri , Kurt Jacobs , Vanja Dunjko , Maxim Olshanii

We determine the conditions for the equivalence between the multi-time expectation values of a general finite-dimensional open quantum system when interacting with, respectively, an environment undergoing a free unitary evolution or a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 A. Smirne , D. Tamascelli , J. Lim , M. B. Plenio , S. F. Huelga

Multitime system correlations functions are relevant in various areas of physics and science, dealing with system-bath interaction including spectroscopy and quantum optics, where many of these schemes include an off-diagonal system bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Marten Richter , Stephen Hughes

We introduce a numerical tensor-network method to compute the statistics of the charge transferred across an interface partitioning an interacting one-dimensional many-body lattice system with $U(1)$ symmetry. Our approach is based on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Hari Kumar Yadalam , Mark T. Mitchison