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

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19814v1
• Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2025 17:27:43 GMT
• Title: Weak unitary symmetries of open quantum dynamics: beyond quantum master equations
• Authors: Calum A. Brown, Robert L. Jack, Katarzyna Macieszczak,
• Abstract summary: We consider Markovian open quantum dynamics with weak unitary symmetries.<n>We find that the joint dynamics always features a separable symmetry directly related to that of the quantum master equation.
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• Abstract: 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 system and its environment can be obtained by dilation, leading to a closed dynamics for a continuous matrix product state. Performing counting measurements on the environment gives rise to stochastic dynamics of quantum trajectories for the system, which when averaged yield back the quantum master equation. In this work, we identify necessary and sufficient conditions under which the dynamics of these different descriptions retain the weak symmetry of the quantum master equation and we characterise the resulting symmetries of the different descriptions in terms of their generators. We find that the joint dynamics always features a separable symmetry directly related to that of the quantum master equation, but for quantum trajectories the corresponding symmetry is present only if the counting measurement satisfies certain conditions.

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