A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

A Stochastic Schrödinger Equation for the Generalized Rate Operator Unravelings




AuthorsSettimo, Federico

PublisherWorld Scientific Pub Co Pte Ltd

Publication year2026

Journal: Open Systems and Information Dynamics

Article number2650002

Volume33

Issue01

ISSN1230-1612

eISSN1793-7191

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1142/S1230161226500022

Publication's open availability at the time of reportingNo Open Access

Publication channel's open availability Partially Open Access publication channel

Web address https://doi.org/10.1142/s1230161226500022


Abstract

Stochastic unravelings are a widely used tool to solve open quantum system dynamics, in which the exact solution is obtained via an average over a stochastic process on the set of pure quantum states. Recently, the generalized rate operator unraveling formalism was derived, allowing not only for the engineering of stochastic realizations, but also to unravel without reverse jumps even for some dynamics in which P-divisibility is violated, thus greatly improving the simulation efficiency. This is possible because the unraveling depends on an arbitrary nonlinear transformation which can incorporate the memory effects. In this work, a stochastic Schr & ouml;dinger equation for this formalism is derived, both for the cases with and without reverse jumps. It is also shown that a failure of this method can be used to witness master equations leading to unphysical time evolutions, independently of the particular nonlinear transformation considered.



Keywords:
master equationsnon-Markovianitystochastic unravelings


Funding information in the publication
I thank Jyrki Piilo for the useful discussions and acknowledge financial support from Magnus Ehrnroothin Saatio.


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