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We derive the master equation that governs the evolution of the measured state backwards in time in an open system. This allows us to determine probabilities for a given set of preparation events from the results of subsequent measurements,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Stephen M. Barnett , David T. Pegg , John Jeffers , Ottavia Jedrkiewicz

We derive the stochastic master equations, that is to say, quantum filters, and master equations for an arbitrary quantum system probed by a continuous-mode bosonic input field in two types of non-classical states. Specifically, we consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-17 J. E. Gough , M. R. James , H. I. Nurdin , Joshua Combes

We derive stochastic master equations for a quantum system interacting with a Bose field prepared in a superposition of continuous-mode coherent states. To determine a conditional evolution of the quantum system we use a collision model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-11 Anita Dabrowska

We studied the nonequilibrium dynamics of the indirect mixing of two (pseudo-)scalar fields induced by their couplings to common decay channels in a medium. The effective non-Markovian quantum master equation (QME) for the two fields'…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-30 Shuyang Cao

The authors apply the generalized master equation to analyze time-dependent transport through a finite quantum wire with an embedded subsystem. The parabolic quantum wire and the leads with several subbands are described by a continuous…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Vidar Gudmundsson , Cosmin Gainar , Chi-Shung Tang , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu

We use a generalized master equation (GME) formalism to describe the non-equilibrium time-dependent transport of Coulomb interacting electrons through a short quantum wire connected to semi-infinite biased leads. The contact strength…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-07 Kristinn Torfason , Andrei Manolescu , Valeriu Molodoveanu , Vidar Gudmundsson

A perturbative quantum master equation is derived for a system interacting with its environment, which is more general than the ones derived before. Our master equation takes into account the effect of the energy exchanges between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Esposito , P. Gaspard

Polaron-transformed quantum master equation (PQME) offers a unified framework to describe the dynamics of quantum systems in both limits of weak and strong couplings to environmental degrees of freedom. Thus, PQME serves as an efficient…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Seogjoo J. Jang

We introduce quantum versions of the Kac Master Equation and the Kac Boltzmann Equation. We study the steady states of each of these equations, and prove a propagation of chaos theorem that relates them. The Quantum Kac Master Equation…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-06-12 Eric A. Carlen , Maria C. Carvalho , Michael P. Loss

We study decoherence in a simple quantum mechanical model using two approaches. Firstly, we follow the conventional approach to decoherence where one is interested in solving the reduced density matrix from the perturbative master equation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Jurjen F. Koksma , Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt

We propose a new form for the quantum master equation in the theory of open quantum systems. This new formalism allows one to describe the dynamics of two-level systems moving along different hyperbolic trajectories with distinct proper…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 M. S. Soares , G. Menezes , N. F. Svaiter

We derive a master equation describing the evolution of a quantum system subjected to a sequence of observations. These measurements occur randomly at a given rate and can be of a very general form. As an example, we analyse the effects of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 James D. Cresser , Stephen M. Barnett , John Jeffers , David T. Pegg

Predicting how a material's microscopic structure and dynamics determine its transport properties remains a fundamental challenge. To alleviate this task's often prohibitive computational expense, we propose a Mori-based generalized quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-05-06 Srijan Bhattacharyya , Thomas Sayer , Andrés Montoya-Castillo

We present a detailed derivation of the stochastic master equation determining the time evolution of the state of a general quantum system, which is placed inside a cavity and subjected to indirect measurements by monitoring the state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-05-15 Anne E. B. Nielsen , Klaus Molmer

Transport of electrons through two-dimensional semiconductor structures on the nanoscale in the presence of perpendicular magnetic field depends on the interplay of geometry of the system, the leads, and the magnetic length. We use a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-03-15 Vidar Gudmundsson , Chi-Shung Tang , Cosmin Mihai Gainar , Valeriu Moldoveanu , Andrei Manolescu

QmeQ is an open-source Python package for numerical modeling of transport through quantum dot devices with strong electron-electron interactions using various approximate master equation approaches. The package provides a framework for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-17 Gediminas Kiršanskas , Jonas Nyvold Pedersen , Olov Karlström , Martin Leijnse , Andreas Wacker

A simple scheme capable of treating transport in molecular junctions in the language of many-body states is presented. An ansatz in Liouville space similar to generalized Kadanoff-Baym approximation is introduced in order to reduce exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-06 Massimiliano Esposito , Michael Galperin

We consider electronic transport through a single-molecule junction where the molecule has a degenerate spectrum. Unlike previous transport models, and theories a rate-equations description is no longer possible, and the quantum coherences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Maximilian G. Schultz

We derive the general form of a master equation describing the interaction of an arbitrary multipartite quantum system, consisting of a set of subsystems, with an environment, consisting of a large number of sub-envirobments. Each subsystem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Vittorio Giovannetti , G. Massimo Palma

We derive a quantum master equation which describes the dynamics of the ensemble-averaged state of homogeneous disorder models at short times, and mediates a transition from coherent superpositions into classical mixtures. While each single…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-07 Clemens Gneiting , Felix R. Anger , Andreas Buchleitner