Unified Framework for Open Quantum Dynamics with Memory
Felix Ivander, Lachlan P. Lindoy, and Joonho Lee

TL;DR
This paper establishes a formal connection between the memory kernel and influence functions in open quantum systems, introduces a non-perturbative method to construct the memory kernel, and proposes a Hamiltonian learning technique from system trajectories.
Contribution
It reveals the relation between memory kernels and influence functions, and develops a diagrammatic approach for non-perturbative construction in Gaussian baths, plus a Hamiltonian learning method from trajectories.
Findings
Unified framework linking memory kernel and influence functions.
Non-perturbative diagrammatic method for constructing memory kernels.
Hamiltonian learning procedure from reduced system trajectories.
Abstract
Studies of the dynamics of a quantum system coupled to baths are typically performed by utilizing the Nakajima-Zwanzig memory kernel () or the influence functions (), especially when the dynamics exhibit memory effects (i.e., non-Markovian). Despite their significance, the formal connection between the memory kernel and the influence functions has not been explicitly made. We reveal their relation by inspecting the system propagator for a broad class of problems where an -level system is linearly coupled to Gaussian baths (bosonic, fermionic, and spin.) With this connection, we also show how approximate path integral methods can be understood in terms of approximate memory kernels. For a certain class of open quantum system problems, we devised a non-perturbative, diagrammatic approach to construct from for (driven) systems…
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TopicsSpectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies · Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics · Quantum Information and Cryptography
