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most citedTowards a theory of metastability in open quantum dynamics

222 citations · 806 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

quant-ph2026

Supermartingales in Quantum Resources Theories: Where do quantum resources go when you're watching?

Katarzyna Macieszczak, Robert L. Jack

We establish a connection between quantum resource theory and probability theory, under repeated application of free operations. We show that strong monotonicity of a resource meas…

quant-ph2025

Weak unitary symmetries of open quantum dynamics: beyond quantum master equations

Calum A. Brown, Robert L. Jack, Katarzyna Macieszczak

We consider Markovian open quantum dynamics with weak unitary symmetries. Starting from the quantum master equation for the system alone, it is known that the joint dynamics of the…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Gauge freedoms in unravelled quantum dynamics: When do different continuous measurements yield identical quantum trajectories?

Calum A. Brown, Katarzyna Macieszczak, Robert L. Jack

Quantum trajectories of a Markovian open quantum system arise from the back-action of measurements performed in the environment with which the system interacts. In this work, we co…

quant-ph2023★ 12 cited

Unravelling Metastable Markovian Open Quantum Systems

Calum A. Brown, Katarzyna Macieszczak, Robert L. Jack

We analyse the dynamics of metastable Markovian open quantum systems by unravelling their average dynamics into stochastic trajectories. We use quantum reset processes as examples…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 6 cited

Metastability and quantum coherence-assisted sensing in interacting parallel quantum dots

Stephanie Matern, Katarzyna Macieszczak, Simon Wozny +1

We study the transient dynamics subject to quantum coherence effects of two interacting parallel quantum dots weakly coupled to macroscopic leads. The stationary particle current o…

quant-ph2021★ 2 cited

Operational approach to metastability

Katarzyna Macieszczak

In this work, we introduce an information-theoretic approach for considering changes in dynamics of finitely dimensional open quantum systems governed by master equations. This exp…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020

Hierarchical classical metastability in an open quantum East model

Dominic C. Rose, Katarzyna Macieszczak, Igor Lesanovsky +1

We study in detail an open quantum generalisation of a classical kinetically constrained model -- the East model -- known to exhibit slow glassy dynamics stemming from a complex hi…

quant-ph2020★ 11 cited

Quantum jump Monte Carlo simplified: Abelian symmetries

Katarzyna Macieszczak, Dominic C. Rose

We consider Markovian dynamics of a finitely dimensional open quantum system featuring a weak unitary symmetry, i.e., when the action of a unitary symmetry on the space of density…

cond-mat.stat-mech2020★ 46 cited

Theory of classical metastability in open quantum systems

Katarzyna Macieszczak, Dominic C. Rose, Igor Lesanovsky +1

We present a general theory of classical metastability in open quantum systems. Metastability is a consequence of a large separation in timescales in the dynamics, leading to the e…

quant-ph2019★ 12 cited

Dissipative quantum state preparation and metastability in two-photon micromasers

Andreas Kouzelis, Katarzyna Macieszczak, Jiří Minář +1

We study the preparation of coherent quantum states in a two-photon micromaser for applications in quantum metrology. While this setting can be in principle realized in a host of p…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 24 cited

Coherence, entanglement and quantumness in closed and open systems with conserved charge, with an application to many-body localisation

Katarzyna Macieszczak, Emanuele Levi, Tommaso Macrì +2

While the scaling of entanglement in a quantum system can be used to distinguish many-body quantum phases, it is usually hard to quantify the amount of entanglement in mixed states…

quant-ph2018★ 30 cited

Non-equilibrium absorbing state phase transitions in discrete-time quantum dynamics

I. Lesanovsky, Katarzyna Macieszczak, Juan P. Garrahan

We introduce a discrete-time quantum dynamics on a two-dimensional lattice that describes the evolution of a -dimensional spin system. The underlying quantum map is constructe…

cond-mat.stat-mech2018★ 154 cited

Unified thermodynamic uncertainty relations in linear response

Katarzyna Macieszczak, Kay Brandner, Juan P. Garrahan

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) are recently established relations between the relative uncertainty of time-integrated currents and entropy production in nonequilibrium…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 10 cited

Metastable decoherence-free subspaces and electromagnetically induced transparency in interacting many-body systems

Katarzyna Macieszczak, YanLi Zhou, Sebastian Hofferberth +3

We investigate the dynamics of a generic interacting many-body system under conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). This problem is of current relevance due t…

cond-mat.stat-mech2016★ 61 cited

Metastability in an open quantum Ising model

Dominic C. Rose, Katarzyna Macieszczak, Igor Lesanovsky +1

We apply a recently developed theory for metastability in open quantum systems to a one-dimensional dissipative quantum Ising model. Earlier results suggest this model features eit…

cond-mat.stat-mech2015★ 222 cited

Towards a theory of metastability in open quantum dynamics

Katarzyna Macieszczak, Madalin Guta, Igor Lesanovsky +1

By generalising concepts from classical stochastic dynamics, we establish the basis for a theory of metastability in Markovian open quantum systems. Partial relaxation into long-li…

quant-ph2014★ 112 cited

Dynamical phase transitions as a resource for quantum enhanced metrology

Katarzyna Macieszczak, Madalin Guta, Igor Lesanovsky +1

We consider the general problem of estimating an unknown control parameter of an open quantum system. We establish a direct relation between the evolution of both system and enviro…

quant-ph2014

The Zeno limit in frequency estimation with non-Markovian environments

Katarzyna Macieszczak

We prove the Zeno limit of the quantum Fisher information for frequency estimation with a general initial state of two-level atoms in the presence of local non-Markov…

quant-ph2014★ 3 cited

Upper bounds on the quantum Fisher Information in the presence of general dephasing

Katarzyna Macieszczak

We derive upper bounds on the quantum Fisher information in interferometry with subsystems, e.g. two-level atoms or Gaussian modes, in the presence of arbitrarily correlated Ga…

quant-ph2013★ 1 cited

Quantum Fisher Information: Variational principle and simple iterative algorithm for its efficient computation

Katarzyna Macieszczak

We derive a new variational principle for the quantum Fisher information leading to a simple iterative alternating algorithm, the convergence of which is proved. The case of a fixe…

quant-ph2013★ 99 cited

Bayesian quantum frequency estimation in presence of collective dephasing

Katarzyna Macieszczak, Martin Fraas, Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski

We advocate a Bayesian approach to optimal quantum frequency estimation - an important issue for future quantum enhanced atomic clock operation. The approach provides a clear insig…