Making Non-Markovian master equations accessible with approximate environments

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Accurate and efficient simulation of open quantum systems remains a significant challenge, particularly for Non-Markovian dynamics.

• We demonstrate the profound utility of expressing the environmental correlation function as a sum of damped sinusoidals within master equations.
• While not strictly required, this decomposition offers substantial benefits, crucially reducing the cost of Lamb-shift and decay rates calculations without sacrificing accuracy.
• Furthermore, this approach enables straightforward calculation of Lamb-shift corrections, bypassing the need for complex principal value integration.