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The thermodynamic limit of the internal energy and the entropy of the system of quantum interacting particles in random medium is shown to exist under the crucial requirements of stability and temperedness of interactions. The energy turns…

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The metrological limits of thermometry operated in nonequilibrium dynamical regimes are analyzed. We consider a finite-dimensional quantum system, employed as a quantum thermometer, in contact with a thermal bath inducing Markovian…

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Patrick P. Potts

The integrable system is constrained strictly by the conservation law during the time evolution, and the nearly integrable system or nonintegrable system is also constrained by the conserved parameters (like the constants of motion) with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-11-10 Chen-Huan Wu

The usual paradigm of open quantum systems falls short when the environment is actually coupled to additional fields or components that drive it out of equilibrium. Here we explore the simplest such scenario, by considering a two level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-08 Andreu Anglés-Castillo , Mari Carmen Bañuls , Armando Pérez , Inés De Vega

In this work, we explore the dynamics of entanglement of an isolated quantum system consisting of two time-dependent, coupled harmonic oscillators. Through the use of a numerical method that relies on the estimation of the system's Wigner…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-27 Cemal Dinc , Onur Oktay

In thermodynamics, quantum coherences - superpositions between energy eigenstates - behave in distinctly nonclassical ways. Recently mathematical frameworks have emerged to account for these features and have provided a range of novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong , David Jennings , Benjamin Yadin , M. S. Kim

Many theoretical expressions of dissipation along non-equilibrium processes have been proposed. However, they have not been fully verified by experiments. Especially for systems strongly interacting with environments the connection between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-03 Ketan Goyal , Xian He , Ryoichi Kawai

The dynamical behavior of quantum coherence of a displaced squeezed thermal state in contact with an external bath is discussed in the present work. We use a Fano-Anderson type of Hamiltonian to model the environment and solve the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-17 Md. Manirul Ali , R. Chandrashekar , S. S. Naina Mohammed

Accurate temperature estimation in the quantum and cryogenic regimes remains a fundamental challenge. Here, we investigate nonequilibrium quantum thermometry using a single-qubit probe coupled to a bosonic bath through noncommuting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Youssef Aiache , Abderrahim El Allati , İlkay Demir , Khadija El Anouz

In an isolated quantum many-body system undergoing unitary evolution, the entropy of a subsystem (smaller than half the system size) thermalizes if at long times, it is to leading order equal to the thermodynamic entropy of the subsystem at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-02 Yichen Huang , Aram W. Harrow

We study a dynamic process of disentanglement by considering the time evolution of bound entanglement for a quantum open system, two qutrits coupling to a common environment. Here, the initial quantum correlations of the two qutrits are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhe Sun , Xiaoguang Wang , Y. B. Gao , C. P. Sun

We study measures of decoherence and thermalization of a quantum system $S$ in the presence of a quantum environment (bath) $E$. The whole system is prepared in a canonical thermal state at a finite temperature. Applying perturbation theory…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 M. A. Novotny , F. Jin , S. Yuan , S. Miyashita , H. De Raedt , K. Michielsen

We derive the uncertainty relation for a quantum open system comprised of a Brownian particle interacting with a bath of quantum oscillators at finite temperature. We examine how the quantum and thermal fluctuations of the environment…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 B. L. Hu , Yuhong Zhang

We investigate quantum dynamical systems defined on a finite dimensional Hilbert space and subjected to an interaction with an environment. The rate of decoherence of initially pure states, measured by the increase of their von Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robert Alicki , Artur Lozinski , Prot Pakonski , Karol Zyczkowski

The linear response to temperature changes is derived for systems with overdamped stochastic dynamics. Holding both in transient and steady state conditions, the results allow to compute nonequilibrium thermal susceptibilities from…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-11 Gianmaria Falasco , Marco Baiesi

The deterministic and time-reversal symmetric dynamics of isolated quantum systems is at odds with irreversible equilibration observed in generic thermodynamic systems. Standard approaches at a reconciliation employ subjective restrictions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Aritro Mukherjee

Why is thermalisation a universal phenomenon? How does a quantum system reach thermodynamical equilibrium? These questions are not new, dating even from the very birth of quantum theory and have been the subject of a renewed interest over…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Grégoire Ithier , Florent Benaych-Georges

We discuss the influence of a zero-temperature environment on a coherent quantum system. First, we calculate the reduced density operator of the system in the framework of the well-known, exactly solvable model of an oscillator coupled to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. Ratchov , F. Faure , F. W. J. Hekking

We investigate the thermodynamics of integrable classical field theories under the effect of a random initial configuration, motivated by the nonequilibrium evolution of quantum field theories. The approach to thermal equilibrium is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-05 P. E. G. Assis