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The dynamics of a quantum system coupled to a classical environment and subject to constraints that drive it out of equilibrium is described. The evolution of the system is governed by the quantum-classical Liouville equation. Rather than…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-15 Jeremy Schofield , Raymond Kapral

An explicit demonstration is given of a harmonic oscillator in equilibrium approaching the equilibrium of a corresponding interacting system by coupling it to a thermal bath consisting of a continuum of harmonic oscillators.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-27 Vinay Ambegaokar

Based on a Liouville-space formulation of open systems, we present two methods to solve the quantum dynamics of coupled harmonic oscillators experiencing Markovian loss. Starting point is the quantum master equation in Liouville space which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-06 Lucas Teuber , Stefan Scheel

In this paper an approach is outlined. With this approach some explicit algorithms can be applied to solve the initial value problem of $n-$dimensional damped oscillators. This approach is based upon following structure: for any…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-03-09 Tianshu Luo , Yimu Guo

Dissipation and decoherence, and the evolution from pure to mixed states in quantum physics are handled through master equations for the density matrix. By embedding elements of this matrix in a higher-dimensional Liouville-Bloch equation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. R. P. Rau , R. A. Wendell

The quantum dynamics of a damped and forced harmonic oscillator described by a Lindblad master equation is analyzed. The master equation is converted into a matrix-vector representation and the resulting non-Hermitian Schr\"odinger equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-10 H. J. Korsch

In investigations of the emergence of classicality from quantum theory, a useful step is the construction of quantum operators corresponding to the classical notion that the system resides in a region of phase space. The simplest such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-13 J. J. Halliwell

A master equation for the deformed quantum harmonic oscillator interacting with a dissipative environment, in particular with a thermal bath, is derived in the microscopic model by using perturbation theory, for the case when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Isar , W. Scheid

We derive a Markovian master equation for a linearly driven dissipative quantum harmonic oscillator, valid for generic driving beyond the adiabatic limit. We solve this quantum master equation for arbitrary Gaussian initial states and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Sinan Altinisik , Eric Lutz

An exact quantum master equation formalism is constructed for the efficient evaluation of quantum non-Markovian dissipation beyond the weak system-bath interaction regime in the presence of time-dependent external field. A novel truncation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rui-Xue Xu , Ping Cui , Xin-Qi Li , Yan Mo , YiJing Yan

In this paper we have obtained the exact eigenstates of a two dimensional damped harmonic oscillator in the presence of an external magnetic field varying with respect to time in time dependent noncommutative space. It has been observed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-18 Manjari Dutta , Shreemoyee Ganguly , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

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

The damped harmonic oscillator is a workhorse for the study of dissipation in quantum mechanics. However, despite its simplicity, this system has given rise to some approximations whose validity and relation to more refined descriptions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Rosenau da Costa , A. O. Caldeira , S. M. Dutra , H. Westfahl

In this study, we analyze a semilinear damped evolution equation under different damping conditions, including the undamped $(\theta=0)$, effectively damped $(0<2\theta<\sigma)$, critically damped $(2\theta=\sigma)$, and non-effectively…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Aparajita Dasgupta , Lalit Mohan , Abhilash Tushir

In this paper we study a Cauchy problem for the nonlinear damped wave equations for a general positive operator with discrete spectrum. We derive the exponential in time decay of solutions to the linear problem with decay rate depending on…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-12-15 Michael Ruzhansky , Niyaz Tokmagambetov

Starting from a microscopic theory, we derive a master equation for a harmonic oscillator coupled to a bath of non-interacting oscillators. We follow a non-perturbative approach, proposed earlier by us for the free Brownian particle. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Jishad Kumar , S. Sinha , P. A. Sreeram

We consider the dissipative dynamics of a qubit coupled to a nonlinear oscillator (NO) embedded in an Ohmic environment. By treating the nonlinearity up to first order and applying Van Vleck perturbation theory up to second order in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 Carmen Vierheilig , Johannes Hausinger , Milena Grifoni

Infinitesimal volumes stretch and contract as they coevolve with classical phase space trajectories according to linearized dynamics. Unless these tangent-space dynamics are modified, chaotic evolution causes the volume spanned by evolving…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2026-04-13 Swetamber Das , Jason R. Green

We provide time-evolution operators, gauge transformations and a perturbative treatment for non-Hermitian Hamiltonian systems, which are explicitly time-dependent. We determine various new equivalence pairs for Hermitian and non-Hermitian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Carla Figueira de Morisson Faria , Andreas Fring

We derive a master equation from the exact stochastic Liouville von-Neumann (SLN) equation \cite{stockburger2002,wallsbook}. The latter depends on two correlated noises and describes exactly the dynamics of an oscillator (which can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-14 Ines de Vega