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Several major open problems in cosmology, including the nature of inflation, dark matter, and dark energy, share a common structure: they involve spacetime-filling media with unknown microphysics, and can be probed so far only through their…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-24 Santiago Agüí Salcedo , Thomas Colas , Lennard Dufner , Enrico Pajer

We formulate the concept of dominant interaction Hamiltonians to obtain an integrable approximation to the dynamics of an electron exposed to a strong laser field and an atomic potential leading to high harmonic generation. The concept…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-01-20 Carlos Zagoya , Christoph-Marian Goletz , Frank Grossmann , Jan M. Rost

We present a general master equation, correct to second order in the system-environment coupling strength, that takes into account the initial system-environment correlations. We assume that the system and its environment are in a joint…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-13 Ali Raza Mirza , Muhammad Zia , Adam Zaman Chaudhry

We deduce a class of non-Markovian completely positive master equations which describe a system in a composite bipartite environment, consisting of a Markovian reservoir and additional stationary unobserved degrees of freedom that modulate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Adrian A. Budini , Henning Schomerus

The Lindblad master equation for an open quantum system with a Hamiltonian containing an arbitrary potential is written as an equation for the Wigner distribution function in the phase space representation. The time derivative of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Isar , A. Sandulescu , W. Scheid

We study the decoherence of massive fields during inflation based on the Zurek's density matrix approach. With the cubic interaction between inflaton and massive fields, the reduced density matrix for the massive fields can be calculated in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-24 Junyu Liu , Chon-Man Sou , Yi Wang

Hybrid quantum-classical algorithms are among the most promising systems to implement quantum computing under the Noisy-Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) technology. In this paper, at first, we investigate a quantum dynamics algorithm for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-13 Mahmoud Mahdian , H. Davoodi Yeganeh

One of the main frameworks to analyze the effects of the environment in a quantum computer is that of pure dephasing, where the dynamics of qubits can be characterised in terms of a well-known dynamical map. In this work we present a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Inés de Vega

We show that the stochastic dynamics of a large class of one-dimensional interacting particle systems may be presented by integrable quantum spin Hamiltonians. Using the Bethe ansatz and similarity transformations this yields new exact…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Gunter M. Schütz

It is argued that the world is a dissipative dynamic system, a phase flow of which is formed by conformally-symplectic mapping. The key assumption is that the concept of energy in microcosm makes sense only for the steady motions…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-04-08 A. P. Alexandrov

Quantum gases of atoms and molecules in optical cavities offer a formidable laboratory for studying the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of open quantum systems with long-range interactions. Long-range interactions are here mediated by multiple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 Tom Schmit , Catalin-Mihai Halati , Tobias Donner , Giovanna Morigi , Simon B. Jäger

In this review article, we present a non-equilibrium quantum transport theory for transient electron dynamics in nanodevices based on exact master equation derived with the path integral method in the fermion coherent-state representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Pei-Yun Yang , Wei-Min Zhang

We derive an analog of the master equation obtained recently for correlation functions of the XXZ chain for a wide class of quantum integrable systems described by the R-matrix of the six-vertex model, including in particular continuum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2011-02-16 N. Kitanine , K. Kozlowski , J. M. Maillet , N. A. Slavnov , V. Terras

We investigate the problem of what evolutions an open quantum system described by a time-local Master equation can undergo with universal coherent controls. A series of conditions are given which exclude channels from being reachable by any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-08 Benjamin Dive , Daniel Burgarth , Florian Mintert

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-25 Gert-Ludwig Ingold

Considering von Neumann expression for reduced density matrix as thermodynamic entropy of a system strongly coupled to baths, we use nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) techniques to derive bath and energy resolved expressions for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Nikhil Seshadri , Michael Galperin

The dynamics associated with a measurement-based master equation for quantum Brownian motion are investigated. A scheme for obtaining time evolution from general initial conditions is derived. This is applied to analyze dissipation and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-20 Bruno Bellomo , Stephen M. Barnett , John Jeffers

The classical and quantum formulations for open systems related to dissipative dynamics are constructed on a complex hyperbolic ring, following universal symmetry principles, and considering the double thermal fields approach for modeling…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-08-26 R. Cartas-Fuentevilla , J. Berra-Montiel , O. Meza-Aldama

We show how the quantum to classical transition of the cosmological fluctuations produced during inflation can be described by means of the influence functional and the master equation. We split the inflaton field into the system-field…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Fernando C. Lombardo

We derive a new representation for spin-spin correlation functions of the finite XXZ spin-1/2 Heisenberg chain in terms of a single multiple integral, that we call the master equation. Evaluation of this master equation gives rise on the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Kitanine , J. M. Maillet , N. A. Slavnov , V. Terras