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Employing a recently developed approach to dynamically emergent quantum thermodynamics, we revisit the thermodynamic behavior of the quantum Otto cycle with a focus on memory effects and strong system-bath couplings. Our investigation is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Irene Ada Picatoste , Alessandra Colla , Heinz-Peter Breuer

We have developed a thermodynamic theory in the non-equilibrium regime, which we describe as a thermodynamic system-bath model [S. Koyanagi and Y. Tanimura, J. Chem. Phys. \textbf{160}, 234112 (2024)]. Based on the dimensionless (DL)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-24 Shoki Koyanagi , Yoshitaka Tanimura

Many claims of computational advantages have been made for quantum computing over classical, but they have not been demonstrated for practical problems. Here, we present algorithms for solving time-dependent PDEs, with particular reference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Sachin S. Bharadwaj , Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

We construct and solve a "minimal model" with which nonequilibrium phenomena in many-body open quantum systems can be studied analytically under time-dependent parameter changes in the system and/or the bath. Coupling a suitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Emma C. King , Michael Kastner , Johannes N. Kriel

The dynamics of hybrid systems -- i.e. ones in which classical and quantum degrees of freedom co-exist and interact -- feature both diffusion in the classical sector and decoherence in the quantum state. In this article, we will consider…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Emanuele Panella

High-precision low-temperature thermometry is a challenge for experimental quantum physics and quantum sensing. Here we consider a thermometer modelled by a dynamically-controlled multilevel quantum probe in contact with a bath. Dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Victor Mukherjee , Analia Zwick , Arnab Ghosh , Xi Chen , Gershon Kurizki

A recently developed approach to the thermodynamics of open quantum systems, on the basis of the principle of minimal dissipation, is applied to the spin-boson model. Employing a numerically exact quantum dynamical treatment based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Salvatore Gatto , Alessandra Colla , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Michael Thoss

Temperature determines the relative probability of observing a physical system in an energy state when that system is energetically in equilibrium with its environment. In this paper, we present a theory for engineering the temperature of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Alireza Shabani , Hartmut Neven

We propose a piecewise deterministic Markovian jump process in Hilbert space such that the covariance matrix of this stochastic process solves the thermodynamic quantum master equation. The proposed stochastic process is particularly simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Hans Christian Öttinger

During recent years the interest to dynamics of quantum systems has grown considerably. Quantum many body systems out of equilibrium often manifest behavior, different from the one predicted by standard statistical mechanics and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-01 A. A. Zvyagin

Time-dependent currents in molecular junctions can be caused by structural fluctuations or interaction with external fields. In this publication, we demonstrate how the hierarchical quantum master equation approach can be used to study…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Andre Erpenbeck , Lukas Götzendörfer , Christian Schinabeck , Michael Thoss

Electron transfer coupled to a collective vibronic degree of freedom is studied in strongly condensed phase and at lower temperatures where quantum fluctuations are essential. Based on an exact representation of the reduced density matrix…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Joachim Ankerhold , Hartwig Lehle

In this study, we address the challenge of controlling quantum systems under environmental influences using the theory of dynamical invariants. We employ a reverse engineering approach to develop control protocols designed to be robust…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-20 Loris Maria Cangemi , Hilario Espinós , Ricardo Puebla , Erik Torrontegui , Amikam Levy

A novel scheme for the steady state solution of the standard Redfield quantum master equation is developed which yields agreement with the exact result for the corresponding reduced density matrix up to second order in the system-bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-23 Juzar Thingna , Jian-Sheng Wang , Peter Hänggi

The von Neumann entropy of various quantum dissipative models is calculated in order to discuss the entanglement properties of these systems. First, integrable quantum dissipative models are discussed, i.e., the quantum Brownian motion and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Stauber , F. Guinea

Quantum systems are unavoidably open to their surrounding degrees of freedom. The theory of open quantum systems is thus crucial to understanding the fluctuations, dissipation, and decoherence of a quantum system of interest. Typically, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-08 Ken Funo , Akihito Ishizaki

Simulating quantum many-body systems is believed to be one of the most promising applications of near-term noisy quantum computers. However, in the near term, system size limitation will remain a severe barrier for applications in materials…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-05-10 Anshumitra Baul , Herbert F Fotso , Hanna Terletska , Juana Moreno , Ka-Ming Tam

In this paper we consider the modelling and simulation of open quantum systems from a device engineering perspective. We derive master equations at different levels of approximation for a Superconducting Quantum Interference Device (SQUID)…

Recently, an effective Lindblad master equation for quantum systems whose dynamics are coupled to dissipative bosonic modes has been introduced [Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 063601 (2022)]. In this approach, the bosonic modes are adiabatically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-18 Simon B. Jäger , Ralf Betzholz

We study a quantum mechanical toy model that mimics some features of a quenched phase transition. Both by virtue of a time-dependent Hamiltonian or by changing the temperature of the bath we are able to show that even after classicalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Nuno D. Antunes , Fernando C. Lombardo , Diana Monteoliva