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Recent developments in practical quantum engineering and control techniques have allowed significant developments for experimental studies of open quantum systems and decoherence engineering. Indeed, it has become possible to test…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 C. -F. Li , G. -C. Guo , J. Piilo

Open systems of coupled qubits are ubiquitous in quantum physics. Finding a suitable master equation to describe their dynamics is therefore a crucial task that must be addressed with utmost attention. In the recent past, many efforts have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Marco Cattaneo , Gian Luca Giorgi , Sabrina Maniscalco , Roberta Zambrini

Semi-Markov processes represent a well known and widely used class of random processes in classical probability theory. Here, we develop an extension of this type of non-Markovian dynamics to the quantum regime. This extension is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-04-30 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Bassano Vacchini

We obtain a Gorini-Kossakowski-Sudarshan-Lindblad -like master equation for two or more quantum systems connected locally to a combination of Markovian and non-Markovian heat baths. The master equation was originally formulated for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-24 Ahana Ghoshal , Ujjwal Sen

The non-Markovian nature of quantum systems recently turned to be a key subject for investigations on open quantum system dynamics. Many studies, from its theoretical grounding to its usefulness as a resource for quantum information…

We establish a connection between non-Markovian memory effects and thermodynamical quantities such as work. We show how memory effects can be interpreted as revivals of work that can be extracted from a quantum system. We prove that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-24 Bogna Bylicka , Mikko Tukiainen , Jyrki Piilo , Dariusz Chruscinski , Sabrina Maniscalco

We present a numerical method to compute non-equilibrium memory kernels based on experimental data or molecular dynamics simulations. The procedure uses a recasting of the non-stationary generalized Langevin equation, in which we expand the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-29 Hugues Meyer , Philipp Pelagejcev , Tanja Schilling

Describing open quantum systems far from equilibrium is challenging, in particular when the environment is mesoscopic, when it develops nonequilibrium features during the evolution, or when the memory effects cannot be disregarded. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Andreu Riera-Campeny , Anna Sanpera , Philipp Strasberg

We study optimal control strategies to optimize the relaxation rate towards the fixed point of a quantum system in the presence of a non-Markovian dissipative bath. Contrary to naive expectations that suggest that memory effects might be…

The emergence of memory is a hallmark feature of non-Markovian dynamics. However, the type of memory -- classical or quantum -- required to realize certain dynamics remains unknown. We study the quantum homogenizer as a minimal model of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Alexander Yosifov , Aditya Iyer , Vlatko Vedral , Jinzhao Sun

Understanding the noise characteristics of quantum processors is crucial when achieving fault-tolerant quantum computing. However, typical qubit designs are often studied under the Markovian approximation, which does not fully capture…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-21 Chun-Tse Li , Jingming Tan , Vasil Gucev , Daniel Lidar

We provide a general construction of quantum generalized master equations with memory kernel leading to well defined, that is completely positive and trace preserving, time evolutions. The approach builds on an operator generalization of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-15 Bassano Vacchini

We derive and solve analytically the non-Markovian master equation for harmonic quantum Brownian motion proving that, for weak system-reservoir couplings and high temperatures, it can be recast in the form of the master equation for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Sabrina Maniscalco , Jyrki Piilo , Kalle-Antti Suominen

We briefly examine recent developments in the field of open quantum system theory, devoted to the introduction of a satisfactory notion of memory for a quantum dynamics. In particular, we will consider a possible formalization of the notion…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-18 Bassano Vacchini

We investigate a quantum metrological protocol operating in a non-Markovian environment by employing the quantum Brownian motion (QBM) model, in which the system is linearly coupled to a reservoir of harmonic oscillators. Specifically, we…

A new analytical approach, beyond rotating wave approximation, based on unitary transformations and the non-Markovian master equation for the density operator, is applied to treat the biased spin boson model with a Lorentzian structured…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-03-10 Congjun Gan , Peihao Huang , Hang Zheng

By extending the response function approach developed in nonlinear optics, we analytically derive an expression for the non-Markovianity [Laine, et al, Phys. Rev. A 81, 062115 (2010)] in the time evolution of a system in contact with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-16 Arend G. Dijkstra , Yoshitaka Tanimura

The understanding of memory effects arising from the interaction between system and environment is a key for engineering quantum thermodynamic devices beyond the standard Markovian limit. We study the performance of measurement-based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-14 Obinna Abah , Mauro Paternostro

During the last ten years, the studies on non-Markovian open system dynamics has become increasingly popular and having contributions from diverse set of research communities. This interest has arisen due to fundamental problematics how to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-09 C. -F. Li , G. -C. Guo , J. Piilo

We investigate the dynamics of quantum and classical correlations in a system of two qubits under local colored-noise dephasing channels. The time evolution of a single qubit interacting with its own environment is described by a memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-22 L. Mazzola , J. Piilo , S. Maniscalco