Abstract
Recent experimental and theoretical works have uncovered nontrivial quantum dynamics due to external dissipation. Using an exact numerical method and a renormalization-group-based analytical technique, we theoretically elucidate that dissipation drastically alters universal particle-number-fluctuation dynamics related to surface-roughness growth in non-interacting fermions and bosons. In a system under dephasing that causes loss of spatial coherence, we find that a universality class of surface-roughness dynamics changes from the ballistic class to a class with the Edwards-Wilkinson scaling exponents and an unconventional scaling function. On the other hand, in a system under dissipation with in- and out-flow of particles that breaks particle-number conservation, the universal dynamics is lost.