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Using the example of a Dirac particle in external static fields, Dirac theory is reformulated as a one-particle quantum theory in the space of normalized two-component spinors. In this formulation, the Dirac operator ``splits'' into two…

General Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 N. L. Chuprikov

The Quantum Monte Carlo method for spin 1/2 fermions at finite temperature is formulated for dilute systems with an s-wave interaction. The motivation and the formalism are discussed along with descriptions of the algorithm and various…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-02-05 Aurel Bulgac , Joaquin E. Drut , Piotr Magierski

We investigate how the temperature calculated from the microcanonical entropy compares with the canonical temperature for finite isolated quantum systems. We concentrate on systems with sizes that make them accessible to numerical exact…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-05 Phillip C. Burke , Masudul Haque

We present a scheme for robust finite temperature quantum simulation of stabilizer Hamiltonians. The scheme is designed for realization in a physical system consisting of a finite set of neutral atoms trapped in an addressable optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 Kevin C. Young , Mohan Sarovar , Jon Aytac , C. M. Herdman , K. Birgitta Whaley

In this paper, the impact of temperature fluctuations in the entanglement of two qubits described by a spin-1/2 XX model is studied. To describe the out-of-equilibrium situation, super-statistics is used with fluctuations given by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-03 Jorge David Castaño-Yepes , Cristian Felipe Ramirez-Gutierrez

We study the thermalization of an elementary quantum system modeled by a two-level atom interacting with stationary electromagnetic fields out of thermal equilibrium near a dielectric slab. The slab is held at a temperature different from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Puxun Wu , Hongwei Yu

A simple and reliable finite difference approach is presented for solution of the Dirac equation eigenproblem for states confined in rotationally symmetric systems. The method sets the boundary condition for the spinor wave function…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 B. Szafran , A. Mrenca-Kolasinska , D. Zebrowski

An upper bound of the relative entanglement entropy of thermal states at an inverse temperature $\beta$ of linear, massive Klein-Gordon and Dirac quantum field theories across two regions, separated by a nonzero distance $d$ in a Cauchy…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-02-25 Onirban Islam

In this paper, we consider a model of two-level quantum heat engine to investigate the explicit analytic expression for the thermodynamics quantities in different condition under the finite-time operation. In this engine, the working…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-05 Yigermal Bassie , Tibebe Birhanu , Yoseph Abebe , Admasu Abawari

We study two small quantum systems coupled to the same reservoir which is in thermal equilibrium. By studying the particle density and the energy density in the two systems before and after they contact each other, we find that the two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-12 Pei Wang

We study the thermal entanglement of a 2-qutrit spin chain with nonlinear coupling in the presence of nonuniform magnetic field. Thermal entanglement of an arbitrary (finite dimensional) m-partite system vanishes at some finite threshold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-04 Iman Sargolzahi , Sayyed Yahya Mirafzali , Mohsen Sarbishaei

'Relativistic thermodynamics' should be understood not as a generalization of a non-relativistic theory but as an application of a general thermodynamic framework, neutral as to spacetime setting and allowing arbitrary conserved quantities,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-06 David Wallace

We consider a regular chain of elementary quantum systems with nearest neighbor interactions and assume that the total system is in a canonical state with temperature $T$. We analyze under what condition the state factors into a product of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 Michael Hartmann , Guenter Mahler , Ortwin Hess

An attempt has been made to find a consistent and logical form for relativistic temperature transformation. Other works in this area have been discussed. Our approach is based on the kinetic theory of ideal gases.

Classical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Khaleghy , F. Qassemi

We investigate the applicability of finite temperature random phase approximation (RPA) using a solvable Lipkin model. We show that the finite temperature RPA reproduces reasonably well the temperature dependence of total strength, both for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-06 K. Hagino , F. Minato

In order to analyse classical electromagnetism in a medium at finite temperature we introduce `an optical density operator', and reformulate Maxwell's equations with the operator, starting from the Dirac-equation-like formulation of…

Optics · Physics 2019-12-17 Daigo Oue

We consider blocks of quantum spins in a chain at thermal equilibrium, focusing on their properties from a thermodynamical perspective. Whereas in classical systems the temperature behaves as an intensive magnitude, a deviation from this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 A. Garcia-Saez , A. Ferraro , A. Acin

Quantum radiation properties of Dirac particles in general nonstationary black holes in the general case is investigated by both using the method of generalized tortoise coordinate transformation and considering the asymptotic behaviors of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-02-06 Jia-Chen Hua , Yong-Chang Huang

We study the spin and thermal conductivity of spin-1/2 ladders at finite temperature. This is relevant for experiments with quantum magnets. Using a state-of-the-art density matrix renormalization group algorithm, we compute the current…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Karrasch , D. M. Kennes , F. Heidrich-Meisner

The Dirac equation is used to describe oblique spin-conserving and spin-flip reflections of relativistic electrons from a one-dimensional potential barrier in a vacuum. When an electron hits the barrier from an oblique direction, its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-28 Wlodek Zawadzki , Pawel Pfeffer