How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Redfield Equation: Completely-Positive Resummation of Non-Markovian Dynamics
quant-ph, hep-th
Submitted: 2026-10-02
Updated: 2026-10-02
Comments: 18 pages + appendices; 4 figures
License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
Terminology
Sources
- Open Quantum Dynamics: Complete Positivity and Entanglement
- Bloch-Redfield equations for modeling light-harvesting complexes
- Local generation of entanglement with Redfield dynamics
- Taming the Bloch-Redfield equation: Recovering an accurate Lindblad equation for general open quantum systems
- Complete positivity violation of the reduced dynamics in higher-order quantum adiabatic elimination
- Searching for Lindbladians obeying local conservation laws and showing thermalization
- The Accuracy of Perturbative Master Equations
- Benchmarking TCL4: Assessing the Usability and Reliability of Fourth-Order Approximations
- Making Non-Markovian master equations accessible with approximate environments
- Asymptotic TCL4 Generator for the Spin-Boson Model: Analytical Derivation and Benchmarking
- Preservation of Positivity by Dynamical Coarse-Graining
- Quantum Thermodynamics in the Refined Weak Coupling Limit
- Genuine quantum trajectories for non-Markovian processes
- Measure for the Degree of Non-Markovian Behavior of Quantum Processes in Open Systems
- Entanglement and non-Markovianity of quantum evolutions
- Quantum Non-Markovianity: Characterization, Quantification and Detection
- Markovian Master Equations: A Critical Study
- Non-Markovian dynamics of a qubit
- Non-Markovian master equations from piecewise dynamics
- Canonical form of master equations and characterization of non-Markovianity
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