A resolution of the Ito-Stratonovich debate in quantum stochastic processes

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.16314v1
• Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:49:44 GMT
• Title: A resolution of the Ito-Stratonovich debate in quantum stochastic processes
• Authors: Aritro Mukherjee,
• Abstract summary: Physically relevant quantum processes driven by multiplicative colored noise are analytically intractable.<n>Our approach uses a novel phase-space augmentation that maps the non-Markovian dynamics into a higher dimensional Markovian system.<n>We show that their consistent Markovian limit corresponds to the Stratonovich convention with renormalized coefficients.
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• Abstract: Quantum stochastic processes are widely used in describing open quantum systems and in the context of quantum foundations. Physically relevant quantum stochastic processes driven by multiplicative colored noise are generically non-Markovian and analytically intractable. Further, their Markovian limits are generically inequivalent when using either the Ito or Stratonovich conventions for the same quantum stochastic processes. We introduce a quantum noise homogenization scheme that temporally coarse-grains non-Markovian, colored-noise driven quantum stochastic processes and connects them to their effective white-noise (Markovian) limits. Our approach uses a novel phase-space augmentation that maps the non-Markovian dynamics into a higher dimensional Markovian system and then applies a controlled perturbative coarse-graining scheme in the characteristic time scales of the noise. This allows an explicit analytical algorithm to derive effective Markovian generators with renormalized coefficients and enables imposing various physical constraints on them. We thus resolve the Ito-Stratonovich ambiguity for multiplicative colored noise driven quantum stochastic processes, wherein we show that their consistent Markovian limit corresponds to the Stratonovich convention with renormalized coefficients as well as Ito correction terms. By assuming their Markovian limit unravels completely positive, trace-preserving maps, we further characterize a physically relevant family of non-Markovian quantum stochastic processes driven by multiplicative colored noise.

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