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Every clock is a physical system and thereby ultimately quantum. A naturally arising question is how to describe time evolution relative to quantum clocks and, specifically, how the dynamics relative to different quantum clocks are related.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-05 Philipp A Hoehn , Augustin Vanrietvelde

We derive dynamics-independent upper bounds on achievable quantum state transformations. Modeling the evolution as a joint unitary on the system and its environment, we show that the R\'enyi divergence between the initial system state and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We show that all non-relativistic quantum processes, whether open or closed, are either unitary or probabilistic unitary, i.e., probabilistic combination of unitary evolutions. This means that for open quantum systems, its continuous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-16 Le Hu , Andrew N. Jordan

We describe a novel class of quantum mechanical particle oscillations in both relativistic and non-relativistic systems based on $PT$ symmetry and $T^2=-1$ (relevant for fermions), where $P$ is parity and $T$ is time reversal. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-04 Leqian Chen , Sarben Sarkar

Properties of unitary time evolution of quantum systems can be applied to define quantum cryptographic protocols. Dynamics of a qubit can be exploited as a data encryption/decryption procedure by means of timed measurements, implementation…

General Physics · Physics 2017-01-17 Davide Pastorello

We identify and explore the intriguing property of resource resonance arising within resource theories of entanglement, coherence and thermodynamics. While the theories considered are reversible asymptotically, the same is generally not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 Kamil Korzekwa , Christopher T. Chubb , Marco Tomamichel

We derive a generalization of Ehrenfest theorem valid for open quantum systems. From this result, we identify three contributions to the evolution of expected values: i) the explicit time dependence of the observable, ii) the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Andrés Vallejo , Alejandro Romanelli , Virginia Feldman , Raúl Donangelo

Quantum evolutions are often non-unitary and in such cases, they are frequently regarded as lossy. Such lossiness, however, does not necessarily persist throughout the evolution, and there can often be intermediate time-spans during which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-25 Sutapa Saha , Ujjwal Sen

It is argued that in the description of macroscopic systems inside quantum mechanics the study of the dynamics of selected degrees of freedom slowly varying on a suitable time scale, corresponding to relevant observables for the given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. Vacchini

The study of open quantum systems is important for fundamental issues of quantum physics as well as for technological applications such as quantum information processing. The interaction of a quantum system with it's environment is usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-02 Jun Sun , Yong-Nan Sun , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo , Kimmo Luoma , Jyrki Piilo

We consider a closed quantum system subject to a stochastic resetting process. The generic expression for the resulting density operator is formulated for arbitrary resetting dynamics, fully characterised by the distribution of times…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-15 Francisco J. Sevilla , Andrea Valdés-Hernández

We model the dynamics of a closed quantum system brought out of mechanical equilibrium, undergoing a non-driven, spontaneous, thermodynamic transformation. In particular, we consider a quantum particle in a box with a moving and insulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Sofia Sgroi , Mauro Paternostro

The fact that macroscopic systems approach thermal equilibrium may seem puzzling, for example, because it may seem to conflict with the time-reversibility of the microscopic dynamics. We here prove that in a macroscopic quantum system for a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-18 Sheldon Goldstein , Takashi Hara , Hal Tasaki

We investigate the recurrence properties of the time series of quantum mechanical expectation values, in terms of two representative models for a single-mode radiation field interacting with a nonlinear medium. From recurrence-time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-31 C. Sudheesh , S. Lakshmibala , V. Balakrishnan

We present a feedback protocol that is able to confine a system to a single micro-state without heat dissipation. The protocol adjusts the Hamiltonian of the system in such a way that the Bayesian posterior distribution after measurement is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-07-04 Léo Granger , Luis Dinis , Jordan M. Horowitz , Juan MR Parrondo

Kramers' degeneracy theorem underpins many interesting effects in quantum systems with time-reversal symmetry. We show that the generator of dynamics for Markovian open fermionic systems can exhibit an analogous degeneracy, protected by a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Simon Lieu , Max McGinley , Oles Shtanko , Nigel R. Cooper , Alexey V. Gorshkov

We consider a time-dependent two-level quantum system interacting with a free Boson reservoir. The coupling is energy conserving and depends slowly on time, as does the system Hamiltonian, with a common adiabatic parameter $\varepsilon$.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Alain Joye , Marco Merkli , Dominique Spehner

Time-reversal (TR) symmetry is crucial for understanding a wide range of physical phenomena, and plays a key role in constraining fundamental particle interactions and in classifying phases of quantum matter. In this work, we introduce an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Kabir Khanna , Abhishek Kumar , Romain Vasseur , Andreas W. W. Ludwig

We present a unifying framework to the understanding of when and how quantum mechanical systems become independent of their initial conditions and adapt macroscopic properties (like temperature) of the environment.By viewing this problem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Adrian Hutter , Stephanie Wehner

The macroscopic fluctuation theory provides a complete hydrodynamic description of non-equilibrium classical diffusive systems. As a first step towards a diffusive theory of open quantum systems, we show how to construct a microscopic open…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Ohad Shpielberg