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The quantum dynamics of two-level systems under classical oscillator heat bath is mapped to the classical one of a charged particle under harmonic oscillator potential plus a magnetic field in a plane. The behavior of eigenstates and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2008-02-03 Mo-lin Ge , Lei Wang

Self-oscillating systems, described in classical dynamics as limit cycles, are emerging as canonical models for driven dissipative nonequilibrium open quantum systems, and as key elements in quantum technology. We consider a family of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Lior Ben Arosh , M. C. Cross , Ron Lifshitz

Landau-Zener tunneling (LZT) is a fundamental dynamical phenomenon, ubiquitous in various quantum systems. Here, we propose a time-varying electric circuit to address the question of whether the quantum LZT can occur in classical systems.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Enhong Cheng , Zheng Lian , Zezhou Chen , Li-Jun Lang

We study the energy transfer in a classical dipole chain of $N$ interacting rigid rotating dipoles. The underlying high--dimensional potential energy landscape is analyzed in particular by determining the equilibrium points and their…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2018-08-15 Alexandra Zampetaki , J. Pablo Salas , Peter Schmelcher

The kinetic equation of nonlocal and non-instantaneous character unifies the achievements of the transport in dense quantum gases with the Landau theory of quasiclassical transport in Fermi systems. Large cancellations in the off-shell…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-05-25 K. Morawetz

Energy transfer plays a vital role in many natural and technological processes. In this work, we study the effects of mechanical motion on the excitation transfer through a chain of interacting molecules with application to biological…

Open quantum systems with nearly degenerate energy levels have been shown to exhibit long-lived metastable states in the approach to equilibrium, even when modelled with certain Lindblad-form quantum master equations. This is a result of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Matthew Gerry , Michael J. Kewming , Dvira Segal

We investigate the quantum dynamics of a quantum oscillator coupled with the most upper state of a three-level $\Lambda-$ type system. The two transitions of the three-level emitter, possessing orthogonal dipole moments, are coherently…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-09 Alexandra Mirzac , Mihai A. Macovei

Waveguides subject to spatiotemporal modulations are known to exhibit nonreciprocal vibration transmission, whereby interchanging the locations of the source and receiver change the end-to-end transmission characteristics. The scenario of…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Jiuda Wu , Behrooz Yousefzadeh

Strongly coupled systems occupying the transitional range between the Wigner crystal and fluid phases are most dynamic constituents of the nature. Highly localized but strongly interacting elements in this phase posses enough thermal energy…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-03-22 Prince Kumar , Devendra Sharma

The Landau-Zener transition is a fundamental concept for dynamical quantum systems and has been studied in numerous fields of physics. Here we present a classical mechanical model system exhibiting analogous behaviour using two inversely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-10 Thomas Faust , Johannes Rieger , Maximilian J. Seitner , Peter Krenn , Jörg P. Kotthaus , Eva M. Weig

We present a microscopic theory of nonlinear damping and dephasing of low-frequency eigenmodes in nano- and micro-mechanical systems. The mechanism of the both effects is scattering of thermally excited vibrational modes off the considered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 J. Atalaya , T. W. Kenny , M. L. Roukes , M. I. Dykman

In the framework of a novel dissipative scheme, we have investigated the quantum dynamics of an oscillating system interacting with two reservoirs with different temperatures trough different time-dependent coupling functions. The reduced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-12 Narges Cheraghpour , Fardin Kheirandish

We consider the nonlinear Duffing oscillator in presence of fractional damping which is characteristic in different physical situations. The system is studied with a smaller and larger damping parameter value, that we call the underdamped…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2024-03-18 Mattia Coccolo , Jesús M. Seoane , Stefano Lenci , Miguel A. F. Sanjuán

The transition dynamics of two-state systems with time-dependent energy levels, first considered by Landau, Zener, Majorana, and St\"uckelberg, is one of the basic models in quantum physics and has been used to describe various physical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Jonas R. F. Lima , Guido Burkard

We explore nonequilibrium quantum heat transport in nonlinear bosonic systems in the presence of a non-Kerr-type interaction governed by hyper-parametric oscillation due to two-photon hopping between the two cavities. We estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 JungYun Han , Daniel Leykam , Dimitris G. Angelakis , Juzar Thingna

We explore the classical dynamics of two interacting rotating dipoles that are fixed in the space and exposed to an external homogeneous electric field. Kinetic energy transfer mechanisms between the dipoles are investigated varying both…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2017-01-25 Rosario González-Férez , Manuel Iñarrea , J. Pablo Salas , Peter Schmelcher

The quantum dynamics of a low-dimensional system in contact with a large but finite harmonic bath is theoretically investigated by coarse-graining the bath into a reduced set of effective energy states. In this model, the couplings between…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-01-29 Loïse Attal , Cyril Falvo , Florent Calvo , Pascal Parneix

Quantum energy transfer in a chain of two-level (spin) units, connected at its ends to two thermal reservoirs, is analyzed in two limits: (i) In the off-resonance regime, when the characteristic subsystem excitation energy gaps are larger…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Claire X. Yu , Lian-Ao Wu , Dvira Segal

Phase transitions which occur at zero temperature when some non-thermal parameter like pressure, chemical composition or magnetic field is changed are called quantum phase transitions. They are caused by quantum fluctuations which are a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Thomas Vojta