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Overdamped stochastic systems maintained far from equilibrium can display sustained oscillations with fluctuations that decrease with the system size. The correlation time of such noisy limit cycles expressed in units of the cycle period is…

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In this paper we present a rigorous asymptotic analysis for stochastic systems with two fast relaxation times. The mathematical model analyzed in this paper consists of a Langevin equation for the particle motion with time-dependent force…

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We propose a protocol to simulate the evolution of a non-Markovian open quantum system by considering a collisional process with a many-body system, which plays the role of an environment. As a result of our protocol the environment spatial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-18 Eduardo Mascarenhas , Ines de Vega

We study the exact dynamics of optical qubits encoded via coherent states with opposite phases which are interacting with an environment modeled as a collection of simple harmonic oscillators. Making use of a coherent-state path integral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Ming-Jay Yang , Shin-Tza Wu

Random and uncontrollable noises from the environment during the design and measurement of superconducting qubits lead to limitations in qubit coherence time and gate fidelity, which is a major challenge in the current state of the art for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Hamid Reza Naeij

We study equilibrium as well as dynamical properties of the finite-size fully connected Ising model with a transverse field at the zero temperature. In relation to the equilibrium, we present approximate ground and first excited states that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-06 Arun Sehrawat , Chirag Srivastava , Ujjwal Sen

Understanding how noise influences nonequilibrium quantum critical dynamics is essential for both fundamental physics and the development of practical quantum technologies. While the quantum Kibble-Zurek (QKZ) mechanism predicts universal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Brendan Rhyno , Swarnadeep Majumder , Smitha Vishveshwara , Khadijeh Najafi

The average time required for an open quantum system to reach a steady state (the steady-state time) is generally determined through a competition of coherent and incoherent (dissipative) dynamics. Here, we study this competition for a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-08-11 A. Ricottone , Y. N. Fang , W. A. Coish

Main aim of this topical issue is to report recent advances in noisy nonequilibrium processes useful to describe the dynamics of ecological systems and to address the mechanisms of spatio-temporal pattern formation in ecology both from the…

Biological Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Astero Provata , Igor M. Sokolov , Bernardo Spagnolo

The collective and purely relaxational dynamics of quantum many-body systems after a quench at temperature $T=0$, from a disordered state to various phases is studied through the exact solution of the quantum Langevin equation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-01 Sascha Wald , Malte Henkel , Andrea Gambassi

We investigate the role of a statistical complexity measure to assign equilibration in isolated quantum systems. While unitary dynamics preserve global purity, expectation values of observables often exhibit equilibration-like behavior,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-14 Marcos G. Alpino , Tiago Debarba , Reinaldo O. Vianna , André T. Cesário

The laws of quantum physics place a limit on the speed of computation. In particular, the evolution time of a system from an initial state to a final state cannot be arbitrarily short. Bounds on the speed of evolution for unitary dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-09 Zihao Hu , Haidong Yuan , Zigui Zhang , Chi-Hang Fred Fung , Zibo Miao

Long-range interacting many-body systems exhibit a number of peculiar and intriguing properties. One of those is the scaling of relaxation times with the number $N$ of particles in a system. In this paper I give a survey of results on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-14 Michael Kastner

A pure quantum state of large number N of oscillators, interacting via harmonic coupling, evolves such that any small subsystem n<<N of the global state approaches equilibrium. This provides a novel example where equilibration emerges as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-12 A R Usha Devi , A K Rajagopal

We show that a scaling law exists for the near resonant dynamics of cold kicked atoms in the presence of a randomly fluctuating pulse amplitude. Analysis of a quasi-classical phase-space representation of the quantum system with noise…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-29 Mark Sadgrove , Sandro Wimberger , Scott Parkins , Rainer Leonhardt

Whether noisy quantum devices without error correction can provide quantum advantage over classical computers is a critical issue of current quantum computation. In this work, the random quantum circuits, which are used as the paradigm…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Meng Zhang , Chao Wang , Shaojun Dong , Hao Zhang , Yongjian Han , Lixin He

We consider critical one dimensional quantum systems initially prepared in their groundstate and perturbed by a smooth noise coupled to the energy density. By using conformal field theory, we deduce a universal description of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-04-04 Alexios Christopoulos , Pierre Le Doussal , Denis Bernard , Andrea De Luca

We propose a method of estimating ergodization time of a chaotic many-particle system by monitoring equilibrium noise before and after time reversal of dynamics (Loschmidt echo). The ergodization time is defined as the characteristic time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-10 Andrei E. Tarkhov , Boris V. Fine

We study the equilibration behavior following local quenches, using frustrated quantum spin chains as an example of interacting closed quantum systems. Specifically, we examine the statistics of the time series of the Loschmidt echo, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 Mathias Diez , Nicholas Chancellor , Stephan Haas , Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

Experiments with trapped atomic gases have opened novel possibilities for studying the evolution of nonequilibrium finite quantum systems, which revived the necessity of reconsidering and developing the theory of such processes. This review…

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