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The Lindblad form of the master equation has proven to be one of the most convenient ways to describe the impact of an environment interacting with a quantum system of interest. For single systems the jump operators characterizing these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-02 Ralf Betzholz , Bruno G. Taketani , Juan Mauricio Torres

A rigorous derivation of quantum Langevin equation from microscopic dynamics in the low density limit is given. We consider a quantum model of a microscopic system (test particle) coupled with a reservoir (gas of light Bose particles) via…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Accardi , A. N. Pechen , I. V. Volovich

The theoretical understanding of time-dependence in magnetic quantum systems is of great importance in particular for cases where a unitary time evolution is accompanied by relaxation processes. A key example is given by the dynamics of…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-07-10 C. Beckmann , J. Schnack

These notes, intended to be self contained and tutorial, present a direct, macroscopic approach to quantizing light inside a linear-response dielectric material when both spectral dispersion and spatial nonuniformity are present, but the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-19 Michael G. Raymer

After giving an outline of the quantization scheme based on the microscopic Hopfield model of a dielectric bulk material, we show how the classical phenomenological Maxwell equations of the electromagnetic field in the presence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ludwig Knoll , Stefan Scheel , Dirk-Gunnar Welsch

We propose a method for transferring atoms to a target quantum state for a multilevel quantum system with sequentially increasing, but otherwise unknown, energy splitting. This is achieved with a feedback algorithm that processes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-06 Bianca J. Sawyer , Matthew Chilcott , Ryan Thomas , Amita B. Deb , Niels Kjærgaard

Coupled Lindblad pseudomode theory is a promising approach for simulating non-Markovian quantum dynamics on both classical and quantum platforms, with dynamics that can be realized as a quantum channel. We provide theoretical evidence that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Zhen Huang , Gunhee Park , Garnet Kin-Lic Chan , Lin Lin

The Lindblad equation is a widely used quantum master equation to model the dynamical evolution of open quantum systems whose states are described by density matrices. These solution matrices are characterized by semi-positiveness and trace…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Hao Chen , Alfio Borzì , Denis Janković , Jean-Gabriel Hartmann , Paul-Antoine Hervieux

The simple algorithm for the simulation and visualization of non relativistic quantum dynamics is proposed that is based on a collective behavior of classical particles. Any quantum particle is represented as the swarm of its classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Yuri Ozhigov

We demonstrate a close connection between the decoherent histories (DH) approach to quantum mechanics and the quantum state diffusion (QSD) picture, for open quantum systems described by a master equation of Lindblad form. The (physically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-22 L. Diosi , N. Gisin , J. J. Halliwell , I. G. Percival

Open quantum systems are often described by a Lindblad master equation, which relies on a set of approximations, most importantly the rotating-wave approximation which is only valid for weak damping. In the Lindblad setting, dissipative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-02-12 Steven Kim , Fabian Hassler

A method for stochastic unraveling of general time-local quantum master equations (QMEs) is proposed. The present kind of jump algorithm allows a numerically efficient treatment of QMEs which are not in Lindblad form, i.e. are not positive…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivan Kondov , Ulrich Kleinekathoefer , Michael Schreiber

The pairwise entanglement of an arbitrary atomic pair randomly extracted from a laser-driven dense multiqubit sample in the presence of quantum dissipation due to spontaneous emission is considered. The dipole-dipole interaction between the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 M. Macovei , J. Evers , C. H. Keitel

The purely relaxational non-equilibrium dynamics of the quantum spherical model as described through a Lindblad equation is analysed. It is shown that the phenomenological requirements of reproducing the exact quantum equilibrium state as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Sascha Wald , Gabriel T. Landi , Malte Henkel

Realistic models of quantum systems must include dissipative interactions with an environment. For weakly-damped systems the Lindblad-form Markovian master equation is invaluable for this task due to its tractability and efficiency. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-01 Gavin McCauley , Benjamin Cruikshank , Denys I. Bondar , Kurt Jacobs

The properties of some complex many body systems can be modeled by introducing in the dissipative dynamics of each single component a set of kinetic constraints that depend on the state of the neighbor systems. Here, we characterize this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Adrian A. Budini

We present a discrete model theory similar in structure to ordinary quantum mechanics, but based on a finite field instead of complex amplitudes. The interpretation of this theory involves only the "modal" concepts of possibility and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-02 Benjamin Schumacher , Michael D. Westmoreland

A phenomenological model of the time evolution of a particle wavepacket is presented that is subject to scattering event with small momentum transfer. It is suited for three dimensions and allows for an additional potential. For a random…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ivo Knittel

We consider the reduced dynamics in a bipartite quantum system (consisting of a central system and an intermediate environment) coupled to a heat bath at finite temperature. To describe this situation, in the simplest possible -- yet…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Alexander Ramírez Bolaños , Héctor J. G. Moreno Carrión , Thomas Gorin

We show that the light generated via spontaneous four-wave mixing or parametric down conversion in multiple, coupled, lossy cavities is a multimode squeezed thermal state. Requiring this state to be the solution of the Lindblad master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-22 Colin Vendromin , Marc M. Dignam