OPEN QUANTUM SYSTEMS WS 2023-24

Tentative weekly lecture plan

Week Theory (Prof. Susana Huelga) Problem Classes

N24/251 - Tuesday 10-13 N24/252 - Wednesday 10-12
Mainly in presence Presence
Week 1 Introduction and presentation of the course. Lecture 1
Problem Sheet 0 upload Quantum states and Generalized
Measurements
Week 2 Quantum Operations and Quantum Dynamical Mr Giovanni Spaventa
Maps I Problem sheet 0
Problem sheet 1
Week 3 Quantum Operations and Quantum Dynamical Feiertag
Maps II. Kraus decomposition
Problem sheet 2
Week 4 Quantum Dynamical maps III Problem sheet 1+2
Unitary Dilations. Stinespring Theorem
Problem sheet 3

Week 5 Quantum Dynamical Semigroups (QDS) I Problem sheet 3

The Linblad-Kossakovski-Gorini-Sudarshan (L-
GKS) theorem
Problem sheet 4

Week 6 Quantum Dynamical Semigroups (QDS) II Problem sheet 4

Problem sheet 5

Week 7 Quantum evolution under semigroup dynamics Problem sheet 5

and Steady state properties
problem sheet 6

Week 8 First principles description of open systems. A Problem sheet 6

Microscopic approach
Problem sheet 7

Week 9 Lindbladian master equations Mr Kevin Kessing

Problem sheet 8 Problem sheet 7

Week 11 Applications. The quantum optical master Problem sheet 8

equation
Problem sheet
 Week 12 Quantum evolution under Lindbladian Problem sheet 9
dynamics. Entropy production. Pauli master
equation
Problem sheet 10
Week 13 Projection operator techniques and Non Problem sheet 10
Markovian master equations
Week 14 Dr Jaemin Lim HEOM Practicum
Hierarchical Equations of Motion (HEOM)

Week 15 Hierarchical Equations of Motion II Mr Nicola Lorenzoni

Tensor Networks I
Week 16 Tensor Network II Tensor Network Practicum

IMPORTANT: All students must present solutions to all proposed problem sheets. To take part in
the oral exam, a minimum grade of 50% is required.

COURSE EVALUATION: Grade of Problem sheets : Oral Examination (50:50)

Primary References

Open Quantum Systems: An introduction

A. Rivas and S. F. Huelga
Springer Briefs in Physics, Springer 2011
(available as preprint arXiv:1104.5242)

The Theory of Open Quantum Systems

Heinz-Peter Breuer and Francesco Petruccione
Oxford University Press 2007

Some Supplementary References

Statistical Methods in Quantum Optics 1: Master Equations and Fokker-Planck Equations
Howard J. Carmichael
Springer, 2010

Quantum Optics
M. O. Scully and M. S. Zubairy
Cambrigde University Press, 1997

Quantum Noise: A Handbook of Markovian and Non-Markovian Quantum Stochastic

Methods with Applications to Quantum Optics
C. W. Gardiner and P. Zoller
Springer Series in Synergetics, Springer, 2004

Additional references will be provided when appropriate to complement the class

discussions