The influence of the initial preparation on dephasing in open quantum dynamics is studied using an exactly solvable model of a two-level system (qubit) interacting with a bosonic bath. It is found that, for some classes of nonselective preparation measurements, qubit-bath correlations lead to a significant enhancement of coherence in the qubit at the initial stage of evolution. The time behavior of the qubit purity and entropy in the regime of enhancement of coherence is considered for different temperatures and coupling strengths.

A general theoretical approach is developed for describing the dynamic properties of semiquantum fluids on the basis of the nonequilibrium statistical operator technique. A set of equations of generalized hydrodynamics is derived and the particular case of thermo-viscoelastic model of a fluid is analyzed in details in the hydrodynamic limit. The case of intermediate and large values of the wave vector is also discussed. The Markov approximation for transport kernels is used to obtain a closed set of equations for dynamic correlation functions. The problem is considered in the context of relation with the experimental data on neutron scattering and the theoretical results known previously in the literature.

A temperature behavior of the frustrated translational mode (T-mode) of a light particle, coupled by different regimes of ohmicity to the surface, is studied within a formalism of the generalized diffusion coefficients. The memory effects of the adsorbate motion are considered to be the main reason of the T-mode origin. Numerical calculations yield a thermally induced shift and broadening of the T-mode, which is found to be linear in temperature for Ohmic and super-Ohmic systems and nonlinear for strongly sub-Ohmic ones. We obtain analytical expressions for the T-mode shift and width at weak coupling for the systems with integer “ohmicity” indexes n = 0÷2 in zero temperature and high temperature limits. We provide an explanation of the experimentally observed blue- or redshifts of the T-mode on the basis of a comparative analysis of two typical times of the system evolution: a time of decay of the “velocity–velocity” autocorrelation function, and a correlation time of the thermal bath random forces. A relation of the T-mode to the multiple jumps of the adsorbate is discussed, and generalization of conditions of the multiple hopping to the case of quantum surface diffusion is performed.

The dynamic properties of semiquantum He4 are analyzed at two temperatures above the point of superfluid phase transition. Investigations are carried out in the framework of the dynamic thermal viscous model for low and intermediate values of the wave vector. The “momentum–momentum” and “enthalpy–enthalpy” time correlation functions are evaluated and the partial contributions of the collective excitations to these functions are separated. The recurrent relations for memory kernels are used to calculate the time–space dispersion of the generalized transport coefficients.

We consider surface diffusion of a single particle, which performs site-to-site underbarrier hopping, fulfils intrasite motion between the ground and the first-excited states within a quantum well, and interacts with surface phonons. We obtain a chain of quantum-kinetic equations for one-particle distribution functions and nonequilibrium hopping probabilities. The generalized diffusion coefficients are derived, and the generic non-Markovian diffusion equation is written down both for the infinite lattice model and in the continuous media limit. In the latter case, the one-particle distribution function obeys the telegrapher’s equation, which could give us a nonmonotonic behavior of the intermediate distribution functions at large spatial gradients. In a weak-coupling limit, if the energy of level splitting is comparable with the temperature, there are also pronounced oscillations of the generalized diffusion coefficients. The recrossing/multiple crossing phenomena, a problem of long tails of the generalized diffusion coefficients, as well as a mapping into the next- to the nearest-neighbors hopping regime, are discussed.

We consider the qubit initial-state preparation due to the nonselective measurements on an overcomplete basis, when the number of outcomes $N=3$. To be specific, we have chosen the dephasing model and applied the conditions for a post-measurement state to ensure a gradual coherence enhancement at the initial stage of the system evolution. It is shown that contrary to the von Neumann–Lüders projection scheme with $N=2$, the most mixed post-measurement state of the qubit in the general case can depend on the bath temperature. This remarkable feature allows one to consider a “temperature-controlled” initial purification of the open quantum system. We also consider some kinds of the repeated nonselective measurements from the viewpoint of an eventual system purification and analyze the important peculiarities of such schemes.