One-to-one correspondence between Hierarchical Equations of Motion and Pseudomodes for Open Quantum System Dynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06466v1
• Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:08:53 GMT
• Title: One-to-one correspondence between Hierarchical Equations of Motion and Pseudomodes for Open Quantum System Dynamics
• Abstract summary: We unite two of the most widely used approaches for strongly damped, non-Markovian open quantum dynamics.<n>We prove two statements: First, every physical bath correlation function (BCF) that can be written as a sum of $N$ exponential terms can be obtained from a physical model.<n>Second, for every such BCF there exists a non-unitary, linear transformation which mirrors the evolution of the system-pseudomode state onto the HEOM hierarchy.
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• Abstract: We unite two of the most widely used approaches for strongly damped, non-Markovian open quantum dynamics, the Hierarchical Equations of Motion (HEOM) and the pseudomode method by proving two statements: First, every physical bath correlation function (BCF) that can be written as a sum of $N$ exponential terms can be obtained from a physical model with $N$ interacting pseudomodes which are damped in Lindblad form. Second, for every such BCF there exists a non-unitary, linear transformation which mirrors the evolution of the system-pseudomode state onto the HEOM hierarchy, and vice versa. Our proofs are constructive and we give explicit expressions for the mirror transformation as well as for the pseudomode Lindbladian corresponding to a given exponential BCF. This approach also gives insight and provides elegant derivations of the corresponding Hierarchy of stochastic Pure States (HOPS) method and its nearly-unitary version, nuHOPS. Our result opens several avenues for further optimization of non-Markovian open quantum system dynamics methods.

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