Exact operator dynamics in Lindbladian Wess-Zumino-Witten conformal field theories (opens in new tab)

Understanding the time evolution of physical observables in open quantum many-body systems coupled to external environments is a natural and difficult problem, and exact results are still rare. In this work, we study this problem for Wess-Zumino-Witten (WZW) conformal field theories with Lindblad jump operators linear in Kac-Moody current modes. We investigate the exact operator dynamics generated by these Lindbladians, identifying classes of cu...