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We study the back-reaction of quantum systems onto classical ones. Taking the starting point that semi-classical physics should be described at all times by a point in classical phase space and a quantum state in Hilbert space, we consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-18 Isaac Layton , Jonathan Oppenheim , Zachary Weller-Davies

The conditions under which quantum-classical Liouville dynamics may be reduced to a master equation are investigated. Systems that can be partitioned into a quantum-classical subsystem interacting with a classical bath are considered.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Robbie Grunwald , Raymond Kapral

We explore the relaxation dynamics of quantum many-body systems that undergo purely dissipative dynamics through non-classical jump operators that can establish quantum coherence. Our goal is to shed light on the differences in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Beatriz Olmos , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

These lecture notes address an audience of physicists or mathematicians who have been exposed to a first course in quantum mechanics. We start with a brief discussion of the general "system-bath" paradigm of quantum dissipative systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-26 Florian Marquardt , Annett Püttmann

Master equations of Lindblad type have attained prominent status in the fields of quantum optics and quantum information since they are guaranteed to satisfy fundamental notions of quantum dynamics such as complete positivity. When Lindblad…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-04 Jürgen T. Stockburger , Thomas Motz

Experimentally observed quantum few-body dynamics of neutral atoms excited to a Rydberg state are numerically analyzed with Lindblad master equation formalism. For this, up to five rubidium atoms are trapped with optical tweezers, arranged…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Woojun Lee , Minhyuk Kim , Hanlae Jo , Yunheung Song , Jaewook Ahn

The Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is typically described through Lindblad equations, which are derived from the Redfield equation via the full secular approximation. The latter neglects the rotating terms in the master equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Antti Vaaranta , Marco Cattaneo

We show that quantum properties of spacetime, encoded by noncommutativity at the Planck scale, lead to a generalized time evolution of quantum systems in which pure states can evolve into mixed states. Specifically, a decoherence mechanism…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-01-27 Michele Arzano , Vittorio D'Esposito , Giulia Gubitosi

We show that all Lindblad operators (i.e. generators of quantum semigroups) on a finite-dimensional Hilbert space satisfying the detailed balance condition with respect to the thermal equilibrium state can be written as a gradient system…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-16 Markus Mittnenzweig , Alexander Mielke

We construct a large class of non-Markovian master equations that describe the dynamics of open quantum systems featuring strong memory effects, which relies on a quantum generalization of the concept of classical semi-Markov processes.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-03 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

We construct model master equations for local quantum dissipation. The master equations are in the form of Lindblad generators, with imposed constraints that the dissipations be strictly linear (i.e. ohmic), isotropic and translationally…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 M. R. Gallis

We present a collection of methods to simulate entangled dynamics of open quantum systems governed by the Lindblad equation with tensor network methods. Tensor network methods using matrix product states have been proven very useful to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-11-09 Daniel Jaschke , Simone Montangero , Lincoln D. Carr

We show that the dynamics of a driven quantum system weakly coupled to a finite reservoir can be approximated by a sequence of Landau-Zener transitions if the level spacing of the reservoir is large enough. This approximation can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-01 Juzar Thingna , Massimiliano Esposito , Felipe Barra

Understanding system-bath correlations in open quantum systems is essential for various quantum information and technology applications. Derivations of most master equations (MEs) for the dynamics of open systems require approximations that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 A. P. Babu , S. Alipour , A. T. Rezakhani , T. Ala-Nissila

If an open quantum system is initially uncorrelated from its environment, then its dynamics can be written in terms of a Lindblad-form master equation. The master equation is divided into a unitary piece, represented by an effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-12 Patrick Hayden , Jonathan Sorce

The theoretical description of materials' properties driven out of equilibrium has important consequences in various fields such as semiconductor spintronics, nonlinear optics, continuous and discrete quantum information science and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-18 Jacopo Simoni , Gabriele Riva , Yuan Ping

As a key index for applications of a device, the device's reliability is its ability to survive (function normally over time) under the influence of some environment. In this paper we present a quantum energy-storing device model with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Bowen Sun , D. L. Zhou

The theory of open quantum system is one of the most essential tools for the development of quantum technologies. Furthermore, the Lindblad (or Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad) Master Equation plays a key role as it is the most…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-06 Daniel Manzano

We consider quantum trajectories of composite systems as generated by the stochastic unraveling of the respective Lindblad-master-equation. Their classical limit is taken to correspond to local jumps between orthogonal states. Based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 C. M. Granzow , G. Mahler

A general theoretical approach to study the quantum kinetics in a system coupled to a bath is proposed. Starting with the microscopic interaction, a Lindblad master equation is established, which goes beyond the common secular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Gediminas Kiršanskas , Martin Franckié , Andreas Wacker