activity
20192025
most citedSolving quasi-free and quadratic Lindblad master equations for open fermionic and bosonic systems

84 citations · 184 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

8 papers

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Non-Gaussian Phase Transition and Cascade of Instabilities in the Dissipative Quantum Rabi Model

Mingyu Kang, Yikang Zhang, Kenneth R. Brown +1

The open quantum Rabi model describes a two-level system coupled to a harmonic oscillator. A Gaussian phase transition for the nonequilibrium steady states has been predicted when…

quant-ph2025

Conditions for Unitarity in Timeless Quantum Theory

Simone Rijavec

Quantum timeless approaches solve the problem of time by recovering the usual unitary evolution of quantum theory relative to a clock in a stationary quantum Universe. For some Ham…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 2 cited

Driven-Dissipative Bose-Einstein Condensation and the Upper Critical Dimension

Yikang Zhang, Thomas Barthel

Driving and dissipation can stabilize Bose-Einstein condensates. Using Keldysh field theory, we analyze this phenomenon for Markovian systems that can comprise on-site two-particle…

quant-ph2023★ 14 cited

Criteria for Davies Irreducibility of Markovian Quantum Dynamics

Yikang Zhang, Thomas Barthel

The dynamics of Markovian open quantum systems are described by Lindblad master equations, generating a quantum dynamical semigroup. An important concept for such systems is (Davie…

quant-ph2022★ 30 cited

Criticality and Phase Classification for Quadratic Open Quantum Many-Body Systems

Yikang Zhang, Thomas Barthel

We study the steady states of translation-invariant open quantum many-body systems governed by Lindblad master equations, where the Hamiltonian is quadratic in the ladder operators…

quant-ph2021★ 84 cited

Solving quasi-free and quadratic Lindblad master equations for open fermionic and bosonic systems

Thomas Barthel, Yikang Zhang

The dynamics of Markovian open quantum systems are described by Lindblad master equations. For fermionic and bosonic systems that are quasi-free, i.e., with Hamiltonians that are q…

quant-ph2020★ 12 cited

Super-operator structures and no-go theorems for dissipative quantum phase transitions

Thomas Barthel, Yikang Zhang

In the thermodynamic limit, the steady states of open quantum many-body systems can undergo nonequilibrium phase transitions due to a competition between coherent and driven-dissip…

quant-ph2019★ 41 cited

Optimized Lie-Trotter-Suzuki decompositions for two and three non-commuting terms

Thomas Barthel, Yikang Zhang

Lie-Trotter-Suzuki decompositions are an efficient way to approximate operator exponentials when is a sum of (non-commuting) terms which, individually, can be e…