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Discrete breathers (DBs) -- a spatial time-periodic localization of energy -- are predicted in a large variety of non-linear systems. Motivated by the conceptual bridging of the DBs phenomena in classical and quantum mechanical…

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We study the prethermal dynamics of an interacting quantum field theory with a N-component order parameter and $O(N)$ symmetry, suddenly quenched in the vicinity of a dynamical critical point. Depending on the initial conditions, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Alessio Chiocchetta , Andrea Gambassi , Sebastian Diehl , Jamir Marino

We ask the question how the (weak) equivalence principle established in classical gravitational physics should be reformulated and interpreted for massive quantum objects that may also have internal degrees of freedom (dof). This inquiry is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Charis Anastopoulos , Bei-Lok Hu

Bloch oscillations and Landau-Zener tunneling are ubiquitous phenomena which are sustained by a band-gap spectrum of a periodic Hamiltonian and can be observed in dynamics of a quantum particle or a wavepacket in a periodic potential under…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-04-17 Henrique C. Prates , Vladimir V. Konotop

The macroscopic limit at which the quantum-to-classical transition occurs remains as one of the long-standing questions in the foundations of quantum theory. There are evidences that the macroscopic limit to which the quantumness of a…

We analyze the decoherence of charge states in double quantum dots due to cotunneling. The system is treated using the Bloch-Redfield generalized master equation for the Schrieffer-Wolff transformed Hamiltonian. We show that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Udo Hartmann , Frank K. Wilhelm

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

In this talk we present a model to demonstrate how time-periodic potential can be used to manipulate quantum metastability of a system. We study metastability of a particle trapped in a well with a time-periodically oscillating barrier in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Choon-Lin Ho , Chung-Chieh Lee

We investigate the phenomenon of sudden transition between classical and quantum decoherence in the study of quantum discord for a dissipative cavity QED system, which consists of two noninteracting two-level atoms, each trapped in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-19 Qi-Liang He , Jing-Bo Xu , Dao-Xin Yao , Ye-Qi Zhang

A model demonstrating existence of a thermodynamically stable quantum time-space crystal has been proposed and studied. This state is characterized by an order parameter periodic in both real and imaginary times. The average of the order…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-12-25 Konstantin B. Efetov

We find the nonlinear conductance of a dissipative resonant level in the nonequilibrium steady state near its quantum critical point. The system consists of a spin-polarized quantum dot connected to two resistive leads that provide ohmic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Gu Zhang , E. Novais , Harold U. Baranger

The investigation of quantum-classical correspondence may lead to gain a deeper understanding of the classical limit of quantum theory. We develop a quantum formalism on the basis of a linear-invariant theorem, which gives an exact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Jeong Ryeol Choi

We study the steady state of a three-level system in contact with a non-equilibrium environment, which is composed of two independent heat baths at different temperatures. We derive a master equation to describe the non-equilibrium process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sheng-Wen Li , C. Y. Cai , C. P. Sun

Except for the universe, all quantum systems are open, and according to quantum state diffusion theory, many systems localize to wave packets in the neighborhood of phase space points. This is due to decoherence from the interaction with…

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Manipulating quantum systems undergoing non-Gaussian dynamics in a fast and accurate manner is becoming fundamental to many quantum applications. Here, we focus on classical and quantum protocols transferring a state across a double-well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 Qiongyuan Wu , Mario A. Ciampini , Mauro Paternostro , Matteo Carlesso

A sweep through a quantum phase transition by means of a time-dependent external parameter (e.g., pressure) entails non-equilibrium phenomena associated with a break-down of adiabaticity: At the critical point, the energy gap vanishes and…

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By using a two-mode description, we show that there exist the multistability, phase transition and associated critical fluctuations in the macroscopic tunneling process between the halves of a double-well trap containing a Bose-Einstein…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Y. Wu , C. P. Sun

A classical particle in a harmonic potential gives rise to a continuous energy spectra, whereas the corresponding quantum particle exhibits countably infinite quantized energy levels. In recent years, classical non-Markovian wave-particle…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2025-01-16 Álvaro G. López , Rahil N. Valani

We describe the nonzero temperature (T), low frequency (\omega) dynamics of the order parameter near quantum critical points in two spatial dimensions (d), with a special focus on the regime \hbar\omega << k_B T. For the case of a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Subir Sachdev