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Diffusion is a fundamental physical phenomenon with critical applications in fields such as metallurgy, cell biology, and population dynamics. While standard diffusion is well-understood, anomalous diffusion often requires complex non-local…

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Thermodynamic principles are often deceptively simple and yet surprisingly powerful. We show how a simple rule, such as the net flow of energy in and out of a moving atom under nonequilibrium steady state condition, can expose the…

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We study here the random diffusion model. This is a continuum model for a conserved scalar density field $\phi$ driven by diffusive dynamics. The interesting feature of the dynamics is that the {\it bare} diffusion coefficient $D$ is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 Gene F. Mazenko

We present exact solutions for the non-equilibrium steady states of a class of dissipative spinless fermionic systems with arbitrary Hamiltonian pairing terms, global charging energy interactions, and uniform single particle loss on every…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-12 Andrew Lingenfelter , Aashish A. Clerk

The accurate description of the interaction of a quantum system with a its environment is a challenging problem ubiquitous across all areas of physics, and lies at the foundation of quantum mechanics theory. Here we pioneer a new strategy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Hideaki Takahashi , Raffaele Borrelli

We discuss many-body fermionic and bosonic systems subject to dissipative particle losses in arbitrary spatial dimensions $d$, within the Keldysh path-integral formulation of the quantum master equation. This open quantum dynamics…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-27 Federico Gerbino , Igor Lesanovsky , Gabriele Perfetto

We study the fluctuations of generic currents in multi-terminal, multi-channel quantum transport settings. In the quantum regime, these fluctuations and the resulting precision differ strongly depending on whether the device is of fermionic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Didrik Palmqvist , Ludovico Tesser , Janine Splettstoesser

We present a unitary framework for dissipative quantum dynamics that can be efficiently applied to large-scale Fermi systems. The method introduces local Hermitian operators that emulate frictional forces while strictly preserving the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 J. E. Alba-Arroyo , Daniel Pęcak , Michael McNeil Forbes , Gabriel Wlazłowski

We study how the Einstein relation between spontaneous fluctuations and the response to an external perturbation holds in the absence of currents, for the comb model and the elastic single-file, which are examples of systems with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-27 D Villamaina , A Sarracino , G Gradenigo , A Puglisi , A Vulpiani

We derive a universal bound on the large-deviation functions of particle currents in coherent conductors. This bound depends only on the mean value of the relevant current and the total rate of entropy production required to maintain a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Kay Brandner , Keiji Saito

In this work we use tempered fractional advection-diffusion equations to model the dispersive transport in disordered materials. A numerical method is derived to approximate the solution of such differential models and we prove that it is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-06 Maria Luísa Morgado , Luís Filipe Morgado

Von Neumann entropy rate for open quantum systems is, in general, written in terms of entropy production and entropy flow rates, encompassing the second law of thermodynamics. When the open-quantum-system evolution corresponds to a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Fabricio Toscano , Gustavo M. Bosyk , Steeve Zozor , Mariela Portesi

We present the application of a fluctuating hydrodynamic theory to study current fluctuations in diffusive systems on a semi-infinite line in contact with a reservoir with slow coupling. We show that the distribution of the time-integrated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-04 Soumyabrata Saha , Tridib Sadhu

We contribute an extension of large-deviation results obtained in [N.J.B. Aza, J.-B. Bru, W. de Siqueira Pedra, A. Ratsimanetrimanana, J. Math. Pures Appl. 125 (2019) 209] on conductivity theory at atomic scale of free lattice fermions in…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 J. -B. Bru , W. de Siqueira Pedra , A. Ratsimanetrimanana

Nonequilibrium steady-state currents, unlike their equilibrium counterparts, continuously dissipate energy into their physical surroundings leading to entropy production and time-reversal symmetry breaking. This letter discusses these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Pankaj Mehta , Natan Andrei

A fluctuation theorem for the nonequilibrium entropy production in quantum phase space is derived, which enables the consistent thermodynamic description of arbitrary quantum systems, open and closed. The new treatment naturally generalizes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-13 Sebastian Deffner

We study the paradigmatic model of a qubit interacting with a structured environment and driven by an external field by means of a microscopic and a phenomenological model. The validity of the so-called fixed-dissipator (FD) assumption,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-29 Gian Luca Giorgi , Astghik Saharyan , Stéphane Guérin , Dominique Sugny , Bruno Bellomo

Collisional reservoirs are becoming a major tool for modelling open quantum systems. In their simplest implementation, an external agent switches on, for a given time, the interaction between the system and a specimen from the reservoir.…

We derive quantum kinetic equations for fermions in a homogeneous time-dependent background in presence of decohering collisions, by use of the Schwinger-Keldysh CTP-formalism. The quantum coherence (between particles and antiparticles) is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-24 Matti Herranen , Kimmo Kainulainen , Pyry Matti Rahkila

We show that the dynamics of generic quantum systems concentrate around their equilibrium value when measuring at arbitrary times. This means that the probability of finding them away from equilibrium is exponentially suppressed, with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Jonathon Riddell , Nathan Pagliaroli , Álvaro M. Alhambra