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We put forth a new class of quantum master equations that correctly reproduce the asymptotic state of an open quantum system beyond the infinitesimally weak system-bath coupling limit. Our method is based on incorporating the knowledge of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-10 Tobias Becker , Alexander Schnell , Juzar Thingna

The conventional phase space of classical physics treats space and time differently, and this difference carries over to field theories and quantum mechanics (QM). In this paper, the phase space is enhanced through two main extensions.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-15 N. L. Diaz , J. M. Matera , R. Rossignoli

We consider the mean field Fokker-Planck equation subject to nonlinear no-flux boundary conditions, which necessarily arise when subjecting a system of Brownian particles interacting via a pair potential in a bounded domain. With the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-03-30 R. D. Mills-Williams , B. D. Goddard , G. A. Pavliotis

We first review the usefulness of the Wigner distribution functions (WDF), associated with Lindblad and pre-master equations, for analyzing a host of problems in Quantum Optics where dissipation plays a major role, an arena where weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. F. O'Connell

We consider matrix-valued stochastic processes known as isotropic Brownian motions, and show that these can be solved exactly over complex fields. While these processes appear in a variety of questions in mathematical physics, our main…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 J. R. Ipsen , H. Schomerus

We consider a simple quantum system subjected to a classical random force. Under certain conditions it is shown that the noise-averaged Wigner function of the system follows an integro-differential stochastic Liouville equation. In the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 Salman Habib

Beam splitters allow us to superpose two continuous single mode quantum systems. To study the behaviour of their strongly mode mixing dynamics we consider variable beam splitters and their dynamics using Wigner's phase space distribution,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-13 Ole Steuernagel , Ray-Kuang Lee

Solving the stationary nonlinear Fokker-Planck equations is important in applications and examples include the Poisson-Boltzmann equation and the two layer neural networks. Making use of the connection between the interacting particle…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Lei Li , Yijia Tang , Jingtong Zhang

Combinig the harmonic balance method (HBM) and a continuation method is a well-known technique to follow the periodic solutions of dynamical systems when a control parameter is varied. However, since deriving the algebraic system containing…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-12-03 Bruno Cochelin , Christophe Vergez

General methods of quantitative and qualitative continuity analysis of characteristics of composite quantum systems are described. Several modifications of the Alicki-Fannes-Winter method are considered, which make it applicable to a wide…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 M. E. Shirokov

We derive a quantum version of the classical-optics Wiener-Khintchine theorem within the framework of detection of phase-space displacements with a suitably designed quantum ruler. A phase-pace based quantum mutual coherence function is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Ainara Álvarez-Marcos , Alfredo Luis

We extend the Wigner current vector field (Wigner current) construct to single bosonic mode quantum systems interacting with an environment. In terms of the Wigner function quasiprobability density and associated Wigner current, the open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 William F. Braasch , Oscar D. Friedman , Alexander J. Rimberg , Miles P. Blencowe

We develop a monotone finite volume method for the time fractional Fokker-Planck equations and theoretically prove its unconditional stability. We show that the convergence rate of this method is order 1 in space and if the space grid…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-03 Yingjun Jiang , Xuejun Xu

We carry out a comprehensive linear stability analysis of active Brownian particle systems around a constant homogeneous state. These scalar models, being important prototypes for the continuous description of active matter, are…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-12-22 Michele Coti Zelati , Lucas Ertzbischoff , David Gerard-Varet

We introduce a stochastic particle system that corresponds to the Fokker-Planck equation with decay in the many-particles limit, and study its large deviations. We show that the large-deviation rate functional corresponds to an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2013-03-08 Mark Peletier , Michiel Renger , Marco Veneroni

We analyze the long time behavior of transport equations for a class of dissipative quantum systems with Fokker-planck type scattering operator, subject to confining potentials of harmonic oscillator type. We establish the conditions under…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Sparber , J. A. Carrillo , J. Dolbeault , P. A. Markowich

Fradkin's representation is a general method of attacking problems in quantum field theory, having as its basis the functional approach of Schwinger. As a pedagogical illustration of that method, we explicitly formulate it for quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 K. V. Shajesh , Kimball A. Milton

The quantum master equation is introduced for the density matrix representing Bogoliubov-BCS quasiparticles. A constraint to relate the loss and gain factors is taken into account to preserve the form of the density matrix. Such an equation…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-04-07 Chun-Feng Huang , Keh-Ning Huang

We solve the Fokker-Planck equation for Brownian motion in a logarithmic potential. When the diffusion constant is below a critical value the solution approaches a non-normalizable scaling state, reminiscent of an infinite invariant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-05-27 David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

This paper investigates the probability distribution of solutions to McKean--Vlasov stochastic differential equations driven by fractional Brownian motion with Hurst parameter H>1/2. Our main contribution is the derivation of the associated…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Saloua Labed , Nacira Agram , Bernt Oksendal