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Unconventional cycles provide a useful didactic resource to discuss the second law of thermodynamics applied to thermal motors and their efficiency. In most cases they involve a negative slope, linear process that presents an adiabatic…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-10-17 Jeferson J. Arenzon

We derive a microscopic expression for the instantaneous diagonal elements of the density matrix $\rho_{nn}(t)$ in the adiabatic basis for an arbitrary time dependent process in a closed Hamiltonian system. If the initial density matrix is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-24 Anatoli Polkovnikov

In this thesis, it is presented a set of results in adiabatic dynamics (closed and open system) and transitionless quantum driving that promote some advances in our understanding on quantum control and Hamiltonian inverse engineering. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-27 Alan C. Santos

Entropy has become increasingly central to characterize, understand and even guide assembly, self-organization and phase transition processes. In this work, we build on the analogous role of partition functions (or free energies) in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-15 Caroline Desgranges , Jerome Delhommelle

Envariance is a symmetry exhibited by correlated quantum systems. Inspired by this "quantum fact of life," we propose a novel method for shortcuts to adiabaticity which enables the system to evolve through the adiabatic manifold at all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Akram Touil , Sebastian Deffner

The adiabatic theorem is an important concept in quantum mechanics, it tells that a quantum system subjected to gradually changing external conditions remains to the same instantaneous eigenstate of its Hamiltonian as it initially in. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-27 J. Shen , W. Wang , C. M. Dai , X. X. Yi

The quantum adiabatic theorem is fundamental to time dependent quantum systems, but being able to characterize quantitatively an adiabatic evolution in many-body systems can be a challenge. This work demonstrates that the use of appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 A. H. Skelt , I. D'Amico

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a central field for understanding how energy conversion processes occur in microscopic systems. In these systems, effects such as coherence, entanglement, and non-Markovianity play key roles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca

The maximum work extractable from a quantum system is achieved when the system is driven adiabatically. Frictional work then quantifies the difference in work output between adiabatic and non-adiabatic driving. Here we show that frictional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Vishnu Muraleedharan Sajitha , Matthew J. Davis , L. A. Williamson

Entropy is a fundamental concept from Thermodynamics and it can be used to study models on context of Creation Cold Dark Matter (CCDM). From conditions on the first ($\dot{S}\geq0$)\footnote{Throughout the present work we will use dots to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-12-02 R. Valentim , J. F. Jesus

Whether one is interested in quantum state preparation or in the design of efficient heat engines, adiabatic (reversible) transformations play a pivotal role in minimizing computational complexity and energy losses. Understanding the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-10 Sho Sugiura , Pieter W. Claeys , Anatoly Dymarsky , Anatoli Polkovnikov

Motivated by experiments with current biased superconducting atomic point contacts the general problem of nonadiabatic transitions between adiabatic surfaces in presence of strong dissipation is studied. For a single channel device the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-06-05 Hans Fritz , Joachim Ankerhold

Dissipative effects on the nonadiabatic transition for the two and three level systems are studied. When the system is affected by a strong dissipation through the diabatic states, the exact transition probability is enumerated making use…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-07 Keiji Saito , Yosuke Kayanuma

We define a diagonal entropy (d-entropy) for an arbitrary Hamiltonian system as $S_d=-\sum_n \rho_{nn}\ln \rho_{nn}$ with the sum taken over the basis of instantaneous energy states. In equilibrium this entropy coincides with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-08-10 Anatoli Polkovnikov

Adiabatic (or reversible) processes are the key concept unifying our understanding of thermodynamics and dynamical systems. Reversibility in the thermodynamic sense is understood as entropy-preserving processes, such as in the idealized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Rohan Banerjee , Shahyad Khamnei , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Stewart Morawetz

We analyze phase transitions in the conditional entropy of a sequence caused by a change in the conditional variables. Such transitions happen, for example, when training to learn the parameters of a system, since the transition from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-07 Kang Gao , Bertrand Hochwald

The systematic analysis of non-adiabatic effect on convective mode has been conducted using wave energy relation. In the adiabatic analysis, the "propagation diagram" for convective mode is proposed as a useful tool to see its behavior. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-12 Hiroyasu Ando

Surface hopping algorithms, as an important class of quantum dynamics simulation algorithms for non-adiabatic dynamics, are typically performed in the adiabatic representation, which can break down in the presence of ill-defined adiabatic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-05-06 Zhenning Cai , Di Fang , Jianfeng Lu

Towards better understanding of how to design efficient adiabatic quantum algorithms, we study how the adiabatic gap depends on the spectra of the initial and final Hamiltonians in a natural family of test-bed examples. We show that perhaps…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-06-07 Yosi Atia , Dorit Aharonov

A unified framework to describe the adiabatic class of ensembles in the generalized statistical mechanics based on Schwammle-Tsallis two parameter (q, q') entropy is proposed. The generalized form of the equipartition theorem, virial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-09 R. Chandrashekar , J. Segar