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Many-body open quantum systems

Rosario Fazio, Jonathan Keeling, Leonardo Mazza, Marco Schirò

SciPost Phys. Lect. Notes 99 (2025) · published 14 August 2025

Part of the ICTP Collection 2024 Collection in the ICTP Lecture Notes Series.

Abstract

These lecture notes discuss the recent theoretical advances in the understanding of open quantum many-body physics in platforms where both dissipative and coherent processes can be tuned and controlled to a high degree. We start by reviewing the theoretical frameworks and methods used to describe and tackle open quantum many-body systems. We then discuss the use of dissipative processes to engineer many-body stationary states with desired properties and the emergence of dissipative phase transitions arising out of the competition between coherent evolution and dissipation. We review the dynamics of open quantum many body systems in the presence of correlated many-body dissipative processes, such as heating and many-body losses. Finally we provide a different perspective on open quantum many-body systems by looking at stochastic quantum trajectories, relevant for the case in which the environment represents a monitoring device, and the associated measurement-induced phase transitions.

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