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In this note we describe some results concerning non-relativistic quantum systems at positive temperature and density confined to macroscopically large regions of physical space which are under the influence of some local, time-dependent…

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The entanglement in a general mixed spin chain with arbitrary spin $S$ and 1/2 is investigated in the thermodynamical limit. The entanglement is witnessed by the magnetic susceptibility which decides a characteristic temperature for an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Xiang Hao , Shiqun Zhu

Motivated by growing interests in multicomponent metallic alloys and complex fluids, we study a complex mixture with bidispersity in size and polydispersity in energy. The energy polydispersity in the system is introduced by considering…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-10 Madhu Priya , Prabhat K. Jaiswal

We introduce a binary relation on the finite discrete probability distributions which generalizes notions of majorization that have been studied in quantum information theory. Motivated by questions in thermodynamics, our relation describes…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Markus P. Mueller , Michele Pastena

A general thermodynamic framework is presented for open quantum systems in fixed contact with a thermal reservoir. The first and second law are obtained for arbitrary system-reservoir coupling strengths, and including both factorized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Ángel Rivas

"Deep thermalization" describes the emergence of universal wavefunction distributions in quantum many-body dynamics, appearing on a local subsystem upon measurement of its environment. In this work, we study in detail the effect of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-11 Rui-An Chang , Harshank Shrotriya , Wen Wei Ho , Matteo Ippoliti

We discuss thermalization in a multimode quantum cavity under unitary evolution. According to general principles, an isolated system with quadratic couplings does not exhibit thermalization. However, we find that three-wave perturbation,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-01 Jukka P. Pekola , Bayan Karimi

We study the role of global system topology in governing deep thermalization, the relaxation of a local subsystem towards a maximally-entropic, uniform distribution of post-measurement states, upon observing the complementary subsystem in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Harshank Shrotriya , Wen Wei Ho

It was recently observed that in certain thermalizing many-body systems, measuring the complement of a subsystem that thermalized to infinite temperature in a suitable orthonormal basis gives rise to approximate quantum state k-designs as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Henrik Wilming , Ingo Roth

A model for the thermodynamics of a quantum heat bath is introduced. Under the assumption that the bath molecules have finitely many degrees of freedom and are weakly interacting, we present a general derivation of the equation of state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-12 Dorje C. Brody , Lane P. Hughston

We show that a gas thermometer in contact with a stationary classical system out of thermal (Boltzmann) equilibrium evolves, under very general conditions, towards a state characterized by a Levy velocity distribution. Our approach is based…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Damian H. Zanette , Marcelo A. Montemurro

The majority vote model is one of the simplest opinion systems yielding distinct phase transitions and has garnered significant interest in recent years. However, its original formulation is not, in general, thermodynamically consistent,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-16 Felipe Hawthorne , Mário J. de Oliveira , Pedro E. Harunari , Carlos E. Fiore

We provide a quantum statistical basis for (a)a characterisation of a complete set of thermodynamic variables and (b) the differentiability of the entropy function of these variables

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Geoffrey L. Sewell

Based on simplified one-dimensional steady-state analysis of thermoelectric phenomena and on analogies between thermal and electrical domains, we propose both lumped and distributed parameter electrical models for thermoelectric devices.…

General Physics · Physics 2008-01-08 D. Mitrani , J. Salazar , A. Turo , M. J. García , J. A. Chávez

Many complex systems are characterized by non-Boltzmann distribution functions of their statistical variables. If one wants to -- justified or not -- hold on to the maximum entropy principle for complex statistical systems (non-Boltzmann)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefan Thurner , Rudolf Hanel

The multiphoton-subtracted thermal states are an interesting example of quantum states of light which are both classical and non-Gaussian. All the properties of such states can be described by just two parameters of compound-Poisson photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 G. V. Avosopiants , K. G. Katamadze , Yu. I. Bogdanov , S. P. Kulik

Various phenomenological models of particle multiplicity distributions are discussed using a general form of a unified model which is based on the grand canonical partition function and Feynman's path integral approach to statistical…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2015-06-26 S. J. Lee , A. Z. Mekjian

The thermalization phenomenon and many-body quantum statistical properties are studied on the example of several observables in isolated spin-chain systems, both integrable and generic non-integrable ones. While diagonal matrix elements for…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-01-17 Robin Steinigeweg , Jacek Herbrych , Peter Prelovšek

In this paper, we analyze the relationship between entropy and information in the context of the mixing process of two identical ideal gases. We will argue that entropy has a special information-based feature that is enfolded in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Afshin Shafiee , Majid Karimi

We have constructed a regular binary thermal lattice-gas in which the thermal diffusion and mass diffusion are coupled and form two nonpropagating diffusive modes. The power spectrum is shown to be similar in structure as for the one in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ronald Blaak , David Dubbeldam