On quantum to classical comparison for Davies generators

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07267v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 17:33:23 GMT
• Title: On quantum to classical comparison for Davies generators
• Authors: Joao Basso, Shirshendu Ganguly, Alistair Sinclair, Nikhil Srivastava, Zachary Stier, Thuy-Duong Vuong,
• Abstract summary: [Temme'13] observed that the Davies Lindbladian contains an embedded classical Markov generator.<n>We show that if the spectrum of the Hamiltonian does not contain long arithmetic progressions, then the two spectral gaps must be comparable.<n>Our result aligns with physical intuition and enables the application of classical Markov chain techniques to the quantum setting.
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• Abstract: Despite extensive study, our understanding of quantum Markov chains remains far less complete than that of their classical counterparts. [Temme'13] observed that the Davies Lindbladian, a well-studied model of quantum Markov dynamics, contains an embedded classical Markov generator, raising the natural question of how the convergence properties of the quantum and classical dynamics are related. While [Temme'13] showed that the spectral gap of the Davies Lindbladian can be much smaller than that of the embedded classical generator for certain highly structured Hamiltonians, we show that if the spectrum of the Hamiltonian does not contain long arithmetic progressions, then the two spectral gaps must be comparable. As a consequence, we prove that for a large class of Hamiltonians, including those obtained by perturbing a fixed Hamiltonian with a generic external field, the quantum spectral gap remains within a constant factor of the classical spectral gap. Our result aligns with physical intuition and enables the application of classical Markov chain techniques to the quantum setting. The proof is based on showing that any ``off-diagonal'' eigenvector of the Davies generator can be used to construct an observable which commutes with the Hamiltonian and has a Lindbladian Rayleigh quotient which can be upper bounded in terms of that of the original eigenvector's Lindbladian Rayleigh quotient. Thus, a spectral gap for such observables implies a spectral gap for the full Davies generator.

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