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A quantum spin system is discussed, where a heat flow between infinite reservoirs takes place in a finite region. A time dependent force may also be acting. Our analysis is based on a simple technical assumption concerning the time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 David Ruelle

We establish quantum thermodynamics for open quantum systems weakly coupled to their reservoirs when the system exhibits degeneracies. The first and second law of thermodynamics are derived, as well as a finite-time fluctuation theorem for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-08 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito , Gernot Schaller

We introduce a Langevin equation characterized by a time dependent drift. By assuming a temporal power-law dependence of the drift we show that a great variety of behavior is observed in the dynamics of the variance of the process. In…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Fabrizio Lillo , Rosario N. Mantegna

We study non-interacting fermionic systems undergoing continuous monitoring and driven by biased reservoirs. Averaging over the measurement outcomes, we derive exact formulas for the particle and heat flows in the system. We show that these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 João Ferreira , Tony Jin , Jochen Mannhart , Thierry Giamarchi , Michele Filippone

We study quantum heat exchange in a multi-state impurity coupled to two thermal reservoirs. Allowing for strong system-bath interactions, we show that a steady-state heat exchange fluctuation theorem holds, though the dynamical processes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-28 L. Nicolin , D. Segal

We aim to bridge the gap between quantum coherence, quantum correlations, and nonequilibrium quantum transport in a quantum double-dot (QDD) system interacting with fermionic reservoirs. The system-reservoir coupling is modeled using a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-18 Saikumar Krithivasan , Thingujam Yaiphalemba Meitei , Arijit Sen , Md Manirul Ali

We consider the entropy and decoherence in fermionic quantum systems. By making a Gaussian Ansatz for the density operator of a collection of fermions we study statistical 2-point correlators and express the entropy of a system fermion in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2012-11-06 Tomislav Prokopec , Michael G. Schmidt , Jan Weenink

We study the entanglement entropy of the quantum trajectories of a free fermion chain under continuous monitoring of local occupation numbers. We propose a simple theory for entanglement entropy evolution from disentangled and highly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-28 Xiangyu Cao , Antoine Tilloy , Andrea De Luca

We analyse the discrete-time dynamics of a model of non-interacting fermions coupled to an infinite reservoir formed by a bosonic quantum walk on ${\mathbb Z}$. This dynamics consists of consecutive applications of free evolutions of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Olivier Bourget , Alain Joye , Dominique Spehner

The trend to equilibrium for reaction-diffusion systems modelling chemical reaction networks is investigated, in the case when reaction processes happen on subsets of the domain. We prove the convergence to equilibrium by directly showing…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-17 Laurent Desvillettes , Kim Dang Phung , Bao Quoc Tang

The state-dependent diffusion, which concerns the Brownian motion of a particle in inhomogeneous media has been described phenomenologically in a number of ways. Based on a system-reservoir nonlinear coupling model we present a microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Debashis Barik , Deb Shankar Ray

Quantum systems out of equilibrium offer the possibility of understanding intriguing and challenging problems in modern physics. Studying transport properties is not only valuable to unveil fundamental properties of quantum matter but it is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-12-24 E. Neri , F. Scazza , G. Roati

We consider open quantum systems weakly coupled to a heat reservoir and driven by arbitrary time-dependent parameters. We derive exact microscopic expressions for the nonequilibrium entropy production and entropy production rate, valid…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-10-24 Sebastian Deffner , Eric Lutz

This paper considers the extension of the non-Markovian stochastic approach for quantum open systems strongly coupled to a fermionic bath, to the models in which the system operators commute with the fermion bath. This technique can also be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-19 Xinyu Zhao , Wufu Shi , Lian-Ao Wu , Ting Yu

In this brief report, following the recent developments on formulating a quantum analogue of the classical energy equipartition theorem for open systems where the heat bath comprises of independent oscillators, i.e. bosonic degrees of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-06-14 Jasleen Kaur , Aritra Ghosh , Malay Bandyopadhyay

I extend, apply, and generalize a model of a quantum radiator proposed by Griffiths to construct models of radiation fields that exhibit high entropy for long periods of time but approach pure states asymptotically. The models, which are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Frank Wilczek

In recent years, the reassessment of quantum physical phenomena under the framework of resource theories has triggered the design of novel quantum technologies that take advantage from quantum resources, such as entanglement and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-08 Diego Paiva Pires , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto , E. Vernek

A novel method to determine the density and temperature of a system is proposed based on quantum fluctuations typical of Fermions in the limit where the reached temperature T is small compared to the Fermi energy $\epsilon_f$ at a given…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2011-06-27 Hua Zheng , Aldo Bonasera

The approximation of quantum unitary dynamics of a particle by a swarm of point wise classical samples of this particle is proposed. Quantum mechanism of speedup rests on the creation and annihilation of absolutely rigid bons, which join…

General Physics · Physics 2011-12-05 Yuri Ozhigov

For the regime-switching diffusion process with and without advection term we propose an integro-differential equation describing the densities of states continuously distributed over a segment. We demonstrate that there exists a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Alexander S. Bratus , Olga S. Rozanova