English
Related papers

Related papers: Consistent thermodynamics for spin echoes

200 papers

There are problems with defining the thermodynamic limit of systems with long-range interactions; as a result, the thermodynamic behavior of these types of systems is anomalous. In the present work, we review some concepts from both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. A. del Pino , P. Troncoso , S. Curilef

The irreversible entropy increase described by the second law of thermodynamics is fundamentally tied to thermalization and the emergence of equilibrium. In the first part of our work (Ref: arXiv.2503.04152), we constructed an isolated gas…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Xue-Yi Guo

The issue of the thermodynamics of a system of distinguishable particles is discussed in this paper. In constructing the statistical mechanics of distinguishable particles from the definition of Boltzmann entropy, it is found that the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 Chi-Ho Cheng

We show that by switching on a spin-orbit interaction in a cold-atom system, experiencing a Zeeman-like coupling to an external field, e.g., in a Bose-Einstein condensate, one can simulate a quantum measurement on a precessing spin.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-27 D. Sokolovski , E. Ya. Sherman

A Boltzmann machine is a stochastic neural network that has been extensively used in the layers of deep architectures for modern machine learning applications. In this paper, we develop a Boltzmann machine that is capable of modelling…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-18 Giacomo Torlai , Roger G. Melko

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) plays a major role in explaining thermalization of isolated quantum many-body systems. However, there has been no proof of the ETH in realistic systems due to the difficulty in the theoretical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-25 Yuuya Chiba , Yasushi Yoneta

The time evolution of low energy spin states of a single molecular magnet in a local electric field is investigated. The decoherence of the driven single molecular magnet weakly coupled to a thermal bosonic environment is analyzed by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-09 Xiang Hao , Chen Liu , Shiqun Zhu

Many fruitful analogies have emerged between the theories of quantum entanglement and thermodynamics, motivating the pursuit of an axiomatic description of entanglement akin to the laws of thermodynamics. A long-standing open problem has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Ludovico Lami , Bartosz Regula

The one-loop effective potential for non-relativistic bosons with a delta function repulsive potential is calculated for a given chemical potential using functional methods. After renormalization and at zero temperature it reproduces the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Haugset , H. Haugerud , F. Ravndal

Thermodynamic entropy is determined by a heat measurement through the Clausius equality. The entropy then formalizes a fundamental limitation of operations by the second law of thermodynamics. The entropy is also expressed as the Shannon…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Shin-ichi Sasa

The state function entropy and its quantum thermodynamical implication for two typical dissipative systems with anomalous spectral densities are studied by investigating on their low-temperature quantum behavior. In all cases it is found…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-03 Chun-Yang Wang , An-Qi Zhao , Xiang-Mu Kong , Jing-Dong Bao

It is shown how classical states, meant as states representing a classical object, can be produced in the thermodynamic limit, retaining the unitary evolution of quantum mechanics. Besides, using a simple model of a single spin interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 Marco Frasca

We experimentally and theoretically investigate the dephasing rates of the coherent evolution of a resonantly driven pseudo spin emersed in a reservoir of pseudo spins. The pseudo spin is realized by optically exciting 87 Rb atoms to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-05-17 U. Raitzsch , R. Heidemann , H. Weimer , V. Bendkowsky , B. Butscher , P. Kollmann , R. Löw , H. P. Büchler , T. Pfau

Stochastic thermodynamics is formulated under the assumption of perfect knowledge of all thermodynamic parameters. However, in any real-world experiment, there is non-zero uncertainty about the precise value of temperatures, chemical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-11 Jan Korbel , David H. Wolpert

The determination of the Landau free energy (the grand thermodynamic potential) by a perturbation theory is advanced to arbitrary order for the specific case of non-interacting fermionic systems perturbed by a one-particle potential.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-11 Cezary Sliwa , Tomasz Dietl

The classical spin system consisting of three spins with Heisenberg interaction is an example of a completely integrable mechanical system. In this paper we explicitly calculate thermodynamic quantities as density of states, specific heat,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-23 Heinz-Jürgen Schmidt , Christian Schröder

In a $p$-spin interaction spherical spin-glass model both the spins and the couplings are allowed to change in the course of time. The spins are coupled to a heat bath with temperature $T$, while the coupling constants are coupled to a bath…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-10-31 A. E. Allahverdyan , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen , D. B. Saakian

We investigate the quantum evolution of spin states of a single molecular magnet in a local electric field. The decoherence of a $\texttt{\{}\emph{Cu}_3\texttt{\}}$ single molecular magnet weakly coupled to a thermal bosonic environment can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Xiang Hao , Xiaoqun Wang , Chen Liu , Shiqun Zhu

This thesis investigates the connection between quantum theory, thermodynamics and information theory. Theories with structure similar to that of quantum theory are considered, mathematically described by the framework of "Generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-14 Marius Krumm

We investigate theoretically the spin echo signal of an electron localized in a quantum dot and interacting with a bath of nuclear spins. We consider the regime of very low magnetic fields (corresponding to fields as low as a militesla in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-07-26 L. Cywinski , V. V. Dobrovitski , S. Das Sarma
‹ Prev 1 3 4 5 6 7 10 Next ›