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We study delay-independent stability in nonlinear models with a distributed delay which have a positive equilibrium. Such models frequently occur in population dynamics and other applications. In particular, we construct a relevant…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-01-12 Elena Braverman , Sergey Zhukovskiy

A semi-classical non-Hamiltonian model of a spontaneous collapse of unstable quantum system is given. The time evolution of the system becomes non-Hamiltonian at random instants of transition of pure states to reduced ones, given by a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 V. P. Belavkin , P. Staszewski

Every clock is a physical system and thereby ultimately quantum. A naturally arising question is how to describe time evolution relative to quantum clocks and, specifically, how the dynamics relative to different quantum clocks are related.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-05 Philipp A Hoehn , Augustin Vanrietvelde

We extend quantum trajectory theory to encompass the evolution of a large class of open quantum systems interacting with an environment at {arbitrary coupling strength}. Specifically, we prove that general time-local quantum master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-19 Brecht Donvil , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi

In the study of open quantum systems, one commonly describes the evolution of a system of interest through reduced dynamics, obtained by treating the environment indirectly rather than as a part of the full model. This thesis presents an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Caleb A. Mickelson

Constructing a discrete model like a cellular automaton is a powerful method for understanding various dynamical systems. However, the relationship between the discrete model and its continuous analogue is, in general, nontrivial. As a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-24 Yutaka Shikano , Tatsuaki Wada , Junsei Horikawa

A variety of dynamics in nature and society can be approximately treated as a driven and damped parametric oscillator. An intensive investigation of this time-dependent model from an algebraic point of view provides a consistent method to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Lin Zhang , Weiping Zhang

The time reversal of a completely-positive, nonequilibrium discrete-time quantum Markov evolution is derived via a suitable adjointness relation. Space-time harmonic processes are introduced for the forward and reverse-time transition…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-29 Francesco Ticozzi , Michele Pavon

Our aim is to unify and extend the large deviation upper and lower bounds for the occupation times of a Markov process with $L_2$ semigroups under minimal conditions on the state space and the process trajectories; for example, no strong…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-09-24 Naresh Jain , Nicolai Krylov

We investigate the non-equilibrium dynamics of a class of isolated one-dimensional systems possessing two degenerate ground states, initialized in a low-energy symmetric phase. We report the emergence of a time-scale separation between fast…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-01 Alvise Bastianello , Alessio Chiocchetta , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Andrea Gambassi

State-of-the-art quantum simulators permit local temporal control of interactions and midcircuit readout. These capabilities open the way towards the exploration of intriguing nonequilibrium phenomena. We illustrate this with a kinetically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-12 Marcel Cech , María Cea , Mari Carmen Bañuls , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

Dynamical maps describe general transformations of the state of a physical system, and their iteration can be interpreted as generating a discrete time evolution. Prime examples include classical nonlinear systems undergoing transitions to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-19 P. Schindler , M. Müller , D. Nigg , J. T. Barreiro , E. A. Martinez , M. Hennrich , T. Monz , S. Diehl , P. Zoller , R. Blatt

The theoretical description of quantum dynamics in an intriguing way does not necessarily imply the underlying dynamics is indeed intriguing. Here we show how a known very interesting master equation with an always negative decay rate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-31 Nina Megier , Dariusz Chruściński , Jyrki Piilo , Walter T. Strunz

We study the continuous-time evolution of the recombination equation of population genetics. This evolution is given by a differential equation that acts on a product probability space, and its solution can be described by a Markov chain on…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Ian Letter , Servet Martínez

We study the asymptotic behavior of continuous-time, time-inhomogeneous Markovian quantum dynamics in a stationary random environment. Under mild faithfulness and eventually positivity-improving assumptions, the normalized evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Lubashan Pathirana , Jeffrey Schenker

We consider a class of open quantum many-body Lindblad dynamics characterized by an all-to-all coupling Hamiltonian and by dissipation featuring collective ``state-dependent" rates. The latter encodes local incoherent transitions that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-16 Eliana Fiorelli , Markus Müller , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

Viewed as approximations to quantum mechanics, classical evolutions can violate the positive-semidefiniteness of the density matrix. The nature of this violation suggests a classification of dynamical systems based on classical-quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Salman Habib , Kurt Jacobs , Hideo Mabuchi , Robert Ryne , Kosuke Shizume , Bala Sundaram

In this note, we give an original convergence result for products of independent random elements of motion group. Then we consider dynamic random walks which are inhomogeneous Markov chains whose transition probability of each step is, in…

Probability · Mathematics 2010-03-04 C. R. E. Raja , R. Schott

Firstly we consider a finite dimensional Markov semigroup generated by Dunkl laplacian with drift terms. Using gradient bounds we show that for small coefficients this semigroup has an invariant measure. We then extend this analysis to an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-11-11 Andrei Velicu

A temporally varying discretization often features in discrete gravitational systems and appears in lattice field theory models subject to a coarse graining or refining dynamics. To better understand such discretization changing dynamics in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-10-03 Philipp A. Hoehn