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20132026
most citedOut of equilibrium open quantum systems: a comparison of approximate Quantum Master Equation approaches with exact results

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quant-ph2026

Semidefinite programming for understanding the limitations of Lindblad equations

Soumyadeep Sarma, Manas Kulkarni, Archak Purkayastha +1

Lindbladian quantum master equations (LEs) are the most popular descriptions for quantum systems weakly coupled to baths. But, recent works have established that in many situations…

quant-ph2025

Quantum non-Markovian Hatano-Nelson model

Sumit Kumar Jana, Ryo Hanai, Tan Van Vu +2

While considering non-Hermitian Hamiltonians arising in the presence of dissipation, in most cases, the dissipation is taken to be frequency independent. However, this idealization…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Accelerated calculation of impurity Green's functions exploiting the extreme Mpemba effect

David J. Strachan, Archak Purkayastha, Stephen R. Clark

Simulating the dynamics of quantum impurity models remains a fundamental challenge due to the complex memory effects that arise from system-environment interactions. Of particular…

quant-ph2024★ 6 cited

Extracting Dynamical Maps of Non-Markovian Open Quantum Systems

David J. Strachan, Archak Purkayastha, Stephen R. Clark

The most general description of quantum evolution up to a time is a completely positive tracing preserving map known as a dynamical map . Here we consider …

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

On the difference between thermalization in open and isolated quantum systems: a case study

Archak Purkayastha, Giacomo Guarnieri, Janet Anders +1

Thermalization of isolated and open quantum systems has been studied extensively. However, being the subject of investigation by different scientific communities and being analysed…

quant-ph2024

Arbitrary order transfer matrix exceptional points and van Hove singularities

Madhumita Saha, Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, Manas Kulkarni +1

In lattice models with quadratic finite-range Hermitian Hamiltonians, the inherently non-Hermitian transfer matrix (TM) governs the band dispersion. The van Hove singularities (VHS…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Effect of order of transfer matrix exceptional points on transport at band edges

Madhumita Saha, Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, Manas Kulkarni +1

Recently, it has been shown that, in one dimensional fermionic systems, close to band edges, the zero temperature conductance scales as , where is the system length. Thi…

quant-ph2024★ 44 cited

Non-Markovian Quantum Mpemba effect

David J. Strachan, Archak Purkayastha, Stephen R. Clark

Since it's rediscovery in the twentieth century, the Mpemba effect, where a far-from-equilibrium state may relax faster than a state closer to equilibrium, has been extensively stu…

quant-ph2023★ 2 cited

Nonclassical radiation from a nonlinear oscillator driven solely by classical noise

Archak Purkayastha, Klaus Mølmer

Low-frequency classical -noise and quantum noise from low-temperature phonon modes are ubiquitous across various experimental platforms, and are usually considered a hindrance…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Interaction-induced transition in quantum many-body detection probability

Archak Purkayastha, Alberto Imparato

With the advent of digital and analog quantum simulation experiments, it is now possible to experimentally simulate dynamics of quantum many-body lattice systems and make site-reso…

quant-ph2023★ 25 cited

Searching for Lindbladians obeying local conservation laws and showing thermalization

Devashish Tupkary, Abhishek Dhar, Manas Kulkarni +1

We investigate the possibility of a Markovian quantum master equation (QME) that consistently describes a finite-dimensional system, a part of which is weakly coupled to a thermal…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

Quantum correlations in dissipative gain-loss systems across exceptional points

Federico Roccati, Archak Purkayastha, G. Massimo Palma +1

We investigate the behavior of correlations dynamics in a dissipative gain-loss system. First, we consider a setup made of two coupled lossy oscillators, with one of them subject t…

quant-ph2022★ 13 cited

Particle current statistics in driven mesoscale conductors

Marlon Brenes, Giacomo Guarnieri, Archak Purkayastha +3

We propose a highly-scalable method to compute the statistics of charge transfer in driven conductors. The framework can be applied in situations of non-zero temperature, strong co…

quant-ph2022★ 11 cited

Accumulative reservoir construction: Bridging continuously relaxed and periodically refreshed extended reservoirs

Gabriela Wojtowicz, Archak Purkayastha, Michael Zwolak +1

The simulation of open many-body quantum systems is challenging, requiring methods to both handle exponentially large Hilbert spaces and represent the influence of (infinite) parti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 7 cited

Environment assisted superballistic scaling of conductance

Madhumita Saha, Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, Manas Kulkarni +1

We find that, in the presence of weak incoherent effects from surrounding environments, the zero temperature conductance of nearest neighbour tight-binding chains exhibits a counte…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

Quantum thermodynamics with fast driving and strong coupling via the mesoscopic leads approach

Artur M. Lacerda, Archak Purkayastha, Michael Kewming +2

Understanding the thermodynamics of driven quantum systems strongly coupled to thermal baths is a central focus of quantum thermodynamics and mesoscopic physics. A variety of diffe…

quant-ph2022★ 19 cited

Universal subdiffusive behavior at band edges from transfer matrix exceptional points

Madhumita Saha, Bijay Kumar Agarwalla, Manas Kulkarni +1

We discover a deep connection between parity-time (PT) symmetric optical systems and quantum transport in one-dimensional fermionic chains in a two-terminal open system setting. Th…

quant-ph2022★ 24 cited

Lyapunov equation in open quantum systems and non-Hermitian physics

Archak Purkayastha

The continuous-time differential Lyapunov equation is widely used in linear optimal control theory, a branch of mathematics and engineering. In quantum physics, it is known to appe…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021

Dephasing-enhanced performance in quasiperiodic thermal machines

Cecilia Chiaracane, Archak Purkayastha, Mark T. Mitchison +1

Understanding and controlling quantum transport in low-dimensional systems is pivotal for heat management at the nanoscale. One promising strategy to obtain the desired transport p…

quant-ph2021★ 91 cited

Fundamental limitations in Lindblad descriptions of systems weakly coupled to baths

Devashish Tupkary, Abhishek Dhar, Manas Kulkarni +1

It is very common in the literature to write down a Markovian quantum master equation in Lindblad form to describe a system with multiple degrees of freedom and weakly connected to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 17 cited

Sub-diffusive phases in open clean long-range systems

Archak Purkayastha, Madhumita Saha, Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

We show that a one-dimensional ordered fermionic lattice system with power-law-decaying hopping, when connected to two baths at its two ends with different chemical potentials at z…

quant-ph2021★ 11 cited

Time periodicity from randomness in quantum systems

Giacomo Guarnieri, Mark T. Mitchison, Archak Purkayastha +3

Many complex systems can spontaneously oscillate under non-periodic forcing. Such self-oscillators are commonplace in biological and technological assemblies where temporal periodi…

quant-ph2021★ 29 cited

Taking the temperature of a pure quantum state

Mark T. Mitchison, Archak Purkayastha, Marlon Brenes +2

Temperature is a deceptively simple concept that still raises deep questions at the forefront of quantum physics research. The observation of thermalisation in completely isolated…

cond-mat.dis-nn2021★ 29 cited

Quantum dynamics in the interacting Fibonacci chain

Cecilia Chiaracane, Francesca Pietracaprina, Archak Purkayastha +1

Quantum dynamics on quasiperiodic geometries has recently gathered significant attention in ultra-cold atom experiments where non trivial localised phases have been observed. One s…