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We give the map representing the evolution of a qubit under the action of non-dissipative random external fields. From this map we construct the corresponding master equation that in turn allows us to phenomenologically introduce population…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Maria Mannone , Rosario Lo Franco , Giuseppe Compagno

Memory effects play a fundamental role in the study of the dynamics of open quantum systems. There exist two conceptually distinct notions of memory discussed for quantum channels in the literature. In quantum information theory quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-26 Carole Addis , Göktuğ Karpat , Chiara Macchiavello , Sabrina Maniscalco

We present a new method for evaluating the response of a moving qubit detector interacting with a scalar field in Minkowski spacetime. We treat the detector as an open quantum system, but we do not invoke the Markov approximation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Dimitris Moustos , Charis Anastopoulos

We consider a model of non-Markovian Quantum Brownian motion that consists of an harmonic oscillator bilinearly coupled to a thermal bath, both via its position and momentum operators. We derive the master equation for such a model and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Luca Ferialdi , Andrea Smirne

Quantum thermodynamics studies how quantum systems and operations may be exploited as sources of work to perform useful thermodynamic tasks. In real-world conditions, the evolution of open quantum systems typically displays memory effects,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-30 Guilherme Zambon , Gerardo Adesso

We present a detailed study of the dynamics of correlations in non-Markovian environments, applying the hierarchy equations approach. This theoretical treatment is able to take the system-bath interaction into consideration carefully. It is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Chuan-Feng Li , Hao-Tian Wang , Hong-Yuan Yuan , Rong-Chun Ge , Guang-Can Guo

The non-Markovian master equation for open quantum systems is obtained by generalization of the ordinary Zwanzig-Nakajima (ZN) projection technique. To this end, a coupled chain of equations for the reduced density matrices of the bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-28 V. V. Ignatyuk , V. G. Morozov

We examine the elements of the balance equation of entropy in open quantum evolutions and their response as we go from a Markovian to a non-Markovian situation. In particular, we look at the heat current and entropy production rate in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-18 Ahana Ghoshal , Ujjwal Sen

In classical physics, memoryless dynamics and Markovian statistics are one and the same. This is not true for quantum dynamics, first and foremost because quantum measurements are invasive. Going beyond measurement invasiveness, here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-02 Philip Taranto , Thomas J. Elliott , Simon Milz

Quantum information processing relies on how dynamics unfold in open quantum systems. In this work, we study the non-Markovian dynamics in the single mode spin-boson model at strong couplings. In order to apply perturbation theory, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 Rayees A Mala , Mehboob Rashid , Muzaffar Qadir Lone

Although a number of measures for quantum non-Markovianity have been proposed recently, it is still an open question whether these measures directly characterize the memory effect of the environment, i.e., the dependence of a quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-28 S. C. Hou , S. L. Liang , X. X. Yi

The precise characterization of dynamics in open quantum systems often presents significant challenges, leading to the introduction of various approximations to simplify a model. One commonly used strategy involves Markovian approximations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Zhao-Ming Wang , S. L. Wu , Mark S. Byrd , Lian-Ao Wu

The force estimation problem in quantum metrology with an arbitrary non-Markovian Gaussian bath is considered. No assumptions are made on the bath spectrum and coupling strength with the probe. Considering the natural global unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Camille Lombard Latune , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

This MS thesis explores the effects and origins of a 'noise with memory' in the dynamics of an open quantum system. The system considered here is a multi-qubit register performing the Grover's quantum search algorithm. We show that a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-27 Sheikh Parvez Mandal

Reducing computational scaling for simulating non-Markovian dissipative dynamics using artificial neural networks is both a major focus and formidable challenge in open quantum systems. To enable neural quantum states (NQSs), we encode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Long Cao , Liwei Ge , Daochi Zhang , Xiang Li , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan , Xiao Zheng

Non-Markovian processes have recently become a central topic in the study of open quantum systems. We realize experimentally non-Markovian decoherence processes of single photons by combining time delay and evolution in a…

The non-Markovianity is a recently proposed characterization of the non-Markovian behavior in an open quantum system, based on which we first present a practical idea for directly measuring the non-Markovian character of a single qubit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-27 Z. Y. Xu , W. L. Yang , M. Feng

We investigate memory effects in the spin-boson model using a recently proposed measure for non-Markovian behavior based on the information exchange between an open system and its environment. Employing the numerical exact multilayer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Sebastian Wenderoth , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Michael Thoss

The reduced dynamics of a quantum system interacting with a linear heat bath finds an exact representation in terms of a stochastic Schr{\"o}dinger equation. All memory effects of the reservoir are transformed into noise correlations and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Stockburger , H. Grabert

A link between memory effects in quantum kinetic equations and nonequilibrium correlations associated with the energy conservation is investigated. In order that the energy be conserved by an approximate collision integral, the one-particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. G. Morozov , Gerd Ropke