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Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a fundamental framework for preparing ground and thermal states, yet its computational cost scales significantly with the evolution duration $\tau$. Reducing this duration is critical for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yumeng Zeng , Jeongrak Son , Mile Gu , Xiao Yuan

We point out that the quantum dynamical map of an open quantum system can be generated by an effective Liouville operator. The effective Liouville shows the dynamical breaking of time reversibility. This breaking of reversibility is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Martin Janßen

Non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum many-body systems has attracted increasing attention owing to a variety of intriguing phenomena absent in equilibrium physics. A prominent example is the quantum Mpemba effect, where subsystem symmetry is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-01-09 Shuo Liu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang , Hong Yao

Information scrambling refers to the phenomenon in which local quantum information in a many-body system becomes dispersed throughout the entire system under unitary evolution. It has been extensively studied in closed quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Haolin Jiang , Pengfei Zhang

This study delves into the concept of quantum phases in open quantum systems, examining the shortcomings of existing approaches that focus on steady states of Lindbladians and highlighting their limitations in capturing key phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Yuchen Guo , Ke Ding , Shuo Yang

We investigate the dynamics of open quantum systems which are initially correlated with their environment. The strategy of our approach is to analyze how given, fixed initial correlations modify the evolution of the open system with respect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-21 Alessandra Colla , Niklas Neubrand , Heinz-Peter Breuer

In non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems, the quantum Mpemba effect (QME) emerges as a counterintuitive phenomenon: systems exhibiting greater initial symmetry breaking restore symmetry faster than those with less. While theoretical…

The so-called Mpemba effect, i.e. the observation that the warmer of two otherwise identical systems cools faster when both are refrigerated in the same thermal reservoir, is a hotly debated topic in condensed mater physics and statistical…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-09-11 A. Gijón , A. Lasanta , E. R. Hernández

An equation of motion for open quantum systems incorporating memory effects and initial correlations with the environment is presented in terms of an effective Liouville operator that solely acts on states of the system. The environment can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Martin Janßen

We investigate the effects of dissipation on the quantum dynamics of many-body systems at quantum transitions, especially considering those of the first order. This issue is studied within the paradigmatic one-dimensional quantum Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Giovanni Di Meglio , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

Understanding relaxation in isolated quantum many-body systems remains a central challenge. Recently, the quantum Mpemba effect (QME), a counterintuitive relaxation phenomenon, has attracted considerable attention and has been extensively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Hao-Yue Qi , Wei Zheng

Open quantum systems weakly coupled to the environment are modeled by completely positive, trace preserving semigroups of linear maps. The generators of such evolutions are called Lindbladians. In the setting of quantum many-body systems on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 Toby S. Cubitt , Angelo Lucia , Spyridon Michalakis , David Perez-Garcia

The quantum Pontus-Mpemba effect (QPME) is a counterintuitive phenomenon wherein a quantum system relaxes more rapidly through a two-step evolution protocol than through direct evolution under a symmetric Hamiltonian alone. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-13 Hui Yu , Jiangping Hu , Shi-Xin Zhang

The dynamics of an open quantum system with balanced gain and loss is not described by a PT-symmetric Hamiltonian but rather by Lindblad operators. Nevertheless the phenomenon of PT-symmetry breaking and the impact of exceptional points can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-21 Dorje C. Brody

Quantum memory effects can be induced even when the degrees of freedom associated to the environment are not affected at all during the system evolution. In this paper, based on a bipartite representation of the system-environment dynamics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Adrián A. Budini

The Mpemba effect denotes an anomalous relaxation phenomenon where a system initially at a hot temperature cools faster than a system that starts at a less elevated temperature. We introduce an isothermal analog of this effect for a system…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-02 Julius Degünther , Udo Seifert

These notes are a short introduction to the mathematical theory of open quantum systems. They are meant to serve as an entry point into a broad research area which has applications across the quantum sciences dealing with systems subjected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Marco Merkli , Ángel Neira

The quantum Mpemba effect (QMpE) describes an anomalous thermalization phenomenon in which quantum states initially far from equilibrium can approach thermal equilibrium faster than states that begin closer to it. While this effect has been…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Zi-Shen Li , Yuxiang Yang

The evolution of a mixed quantum-classical system is expressed in the mapping formalism where discrete quantum states are mapped onto oscillator states, resulting in a phase space description of the quantum degrees of freedom. By defining…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Aaron Kelly , Ramses van Zon , Jeremy Schofield , Raymond Kapral

This paper is devoted to the study of behavior of open quantum systems consistently based on the Franke-Gorini-Kossakowski-Lindblad-Sudarshan (FGKLS) equation which covers evolution in situations when decoherence can be distinguished. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-14 A. A. Andrianov , M. V. Ioffe , E. A. Izotova , O. O. Novikov
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