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We study the connection between heat transport properties of systems coupled to different thermal baths in two separate regions and their underlying nonequilibrium dynamics. We consider classical systems of interacting particles that may…

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We investigate the thermal responses of a harmonic oscillator chain coupled at its boundaries to heat baths held at different temperatures. This setup sustains a steady energy flux, continuously dissipating heat into both reservoirs. By…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-16 Michiel Gautama , Faezeh Khodabandehlou , Christian Maes , Ion Santra

We report the first experimental observation of dissipation-driven coherent quantum many-body oscillation, and this oscillation is manifested as the coherent exchange of atoms between the thermal and the condensate components in a…

Isolated quantum many-body systems with integrable dynamics generically do not thermalize when taken far from equilibrium. As one perturbs such systems away from the integrable point, thermalization sets in, but the nature of the crossover…

Dynamic correlation and response functions of classical and quantum systems in thermal equilibrium are connected by fluctuation-dissipation theorems, which allow an alternative definition of their (unique) temperature. Motivated by this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Laura Foini , Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Andrea Gambassi

We study the temperature dependence of energy diffusion in two chaotic gapped quantum spin chains, a tilted-field Ising model and an XZ model, using an open system approach. We introduce an energy imbalance by coupling the chain to thermal…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-31 Cristian Zanoci , Brian Swingle

We study a system consisting of an infinite one-dimensional molecular chain and a locally coupled probe. Starting from the Hamiltonian of the chain-probe composite and the corresponding spectral densities, we evaluate the heat current…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Hao-Yang Qi , Zi-Fan Zhu , Yao Wang , Rui-Xue Xu , YiJing Yan

Previous experimental realizations of Dicke model in atomic or ionic systems are based on global observables assuming uniform spin-boson coupling, while inevitable experimental nonuniformity on the one hand requires site-resolved…

The statistical mechanics of a one-dimensional Ising model in thermal equilibrium is well-established, textbook material. Yet, when driven far from equilibrium by coupling two sectors to two baths at different temperatures, it exhibits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-12-09 Nicholas Borchers , Michel Pleimling , R. K. P. Zia

We discuss how the thermalization of an elementary quantum system is modified when the system is placed in an environment out of thermal equilibrium. To this aim we provide a detailed investigation of the dynamics of an atomic system placed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-01-16 Bruno Bellomo , Riccardo Messina , Didier Felbacq , Mauro Antezza

An intriguing phenomenon in non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics is the asymmetry of thermal processes. Relaxation to thermal equilibrium is the most important dissipative process, being a key concept for the design of heat engines and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Álvaro Tejero , Rafael Sánchez , Laiachi El Kaoutit , Daniel Manzano , Antonio Lasanta

We study the real-time dynamics of quantum models with long-range interactions coupled to a heat-bath within the closed-time path-integral formalism. We show that quantum fluctuations depress the transition temperature. In the subcritical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Gustavo Lozano

We consider a chain of one-dimensional dipole moments connected to two thermal baths with different temperatures. The system is in nonequilibrium steady state and heat flows through it. Assuming that fluctuation of the dipole moment is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Anton V. Dolgikh , Daniel S. Kosov

The electrostatic screening properties of ionic fluids are of paramount importance in countless physical processes. Yet, the behavior of ionic conductors out of thermal equilibrium has to date mainly been studied in the context of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-19 Andrea Grisafi , Federico Grasselli

Collision models provide a simple and versatile setting to capture the dynamics of open quantum systems. The standard approach to thermalisition in this setting involves an environment of independent and identically-prepared thermal qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ronan McElvogue , Andrew K. Mitchell , Gabriel T. Landi , Steve Campbell

We show, without relying on any unproven assumptions, that a low-density free fermion chain exhibits thermalization in the following (restricted) sense. We choose the initial state as a pure state drawn randomly from the Hilbert space in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-13 Naoto Shiraishi , Hal Tasaki

Thermalization in quantum many-body systems typically unfolds over timescales governed by intrinsic relaxation mechanisms. Yet, its spatial aspect is less understood. We investigate this phenomenon in the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Filippo Ferrari , Fabrizio Minganti , Camille Aron , Vincenzo Savona

Understanding the realization of thermal equilibrium through the thermalization process in a many-body system is a fundamental and complex scientific question, bridging thermodynamics and classical dynamics and connecting to a host of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-07 Zhenwei Yao

A theory of temperature dynamics in many-body systems driven by time-dependent external sources is introduced. The formalism based on the combination of the perturbation theory and the fluctuational-electrodynamics approach in many-body…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Alireza Naeimi , Moladad Nikbakht

In this work, we study quantum heat transport in a single trapped ion, driven by laser excitation and coupled to thermal reservoirs operating at different temperatures. Our focus lies in understanding how different laser coupling scenarios…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 T. Tassis , F. Brito , F. L. Semião