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We introduce thermometers to define the local temperature of an electronic system driven out-of-equilibrium by local AC fields. We also define the effective temperature in terms of a local fluctuation-dissipation-relation. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-31 Alvaro Caso , Liliana Arrachea , Gustavo S. Lozano

We consider a quantum system linearly coupled to a reservoir of harmonic oscillators. For finite coupling strengths, the stationary distribution of the damped system is not of the Gibbs form, in contrast to standard thermodynamics. With the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-29 Stefanie Hilt , Benedikt Thomas , Eric Lutz

While quantum simulation is one of the most promising applications of modern quantum devices, accessible simulation times are fundamentally limited by finite coherence times due to omnipresent noise. Based on the ideas of relational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Sebastian Gemsheim , Felix Fritzsch

The quantum dynamics of interacting many-body systems has become a unique venue for the realization of novel states of matter. Here we unveil a new class of nonequilibrium states that are eigenstates of an emergent local Hamiltonian. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-27 L. Vidmar , D. Iyer , M. Rigol

We study the quantum dynamics of many-body systems, in the presence of dissipation due to the interaction with the environment, under Kibble-Zurek (KZ) protocols in which one Hamiltonian parameter is slowly, and linearly in time, driven…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

In this paper, we numerically investigate whether quantum thermalization occurs during the time evolution induced by a non-local Hamiltonian whose spectra exhibit integrability. This non-local and integrable Hamiltonian is constructed by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-28 Masataka Matsumoto , Shuta Nakajima , Masahiro Nozaki , Ryosuke Yoshii

The long-time dynamics of quantum systems, typically, but not always, results in a thermal steady state. The microscopic processes that lead to or circumvent this fate are of interest, since everyday experience tells us that not all spatial…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-13 Ken K. W. Ma , Hitesh J. Changlani

We present a cooling algorithm for ground state preparation of fermionic Hamiltonians. Our algorithm makes use of the Hamiltonian simulation of the considered system coupled to an ancillary fridge, which is regularly reset to its known…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Lucas Marti , Refik Mansuroglu , Michael J. Hartmann

The dynamics of open quantum systems is formulated in a minimally extended state space comprising the degrees of freedom of a system of interest and a finite set of non-unitary, pure-state reservoir modes. This formal structure, derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Meng Xu , Vasilii Vadimov , Malte Krug , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold

We study the dissipative dynamics of correlated fermions evolving in presence of a local dephasing bath. To this extent we consider the infinite coordination limit of the corresponding Lindblad master equation, provided by Dynamical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-07-30 Antonio Picano , Matthieu Vanhoecke , Marco Schirò

Classical computations inherently require energy dissipation that increases significantly as the reliability of the computation improves. This dissipation arises when transitions between memory states are not balanced by their time-reversed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-17 Alexander B. Boyd , Paul M. Riechers

We present a systematic theory of dissipation in finite Fermi systems like nuclei and metallic clusters. This theory is based on the application of semiclassical methods and random matrix theory to linear response of many-body systems. The…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 Sudhir R. Jain

Quantum confinement is studied by numerically solving time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation. An imaginary-time evolution technique is employed in conjunction with the minimization of an expectation value, to reach the global minimum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-31 Amlan K. Roy

In this work we investigate the ground state and the dissipative quantum dynamics of interacting charged particles in an external potential at finite temperature. The recently devised time-dependent quantum Monte Carlo (TDQMC) method allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Ivan P. Christov

Confinement of excitations induces quasilocalized dynamics in disorder-free isolated quantum many-body systems in one spatial dimension. This occurrence is signalled by severe suppression of quantum correlation spreading and of entanglement…

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…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Daniel Reiche , Francesco Intravaia , Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Kurt Busch , Bei-Lok Hu

The discretization approximation method commonly used to simulate the dynamics of quantum system coupled to the environment in continuum often suffers from the periodically partial recovery of initial state because of the effect of finite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-07 H. T. Cui , Y. A. Yan , M. Qin , X. X. Yi

Finding ground states of quantum many-body systems is known to be hard for both classical and quantum computers. As a result, when Nature cools a quantum system in a low-temperature thermal bath, the ground state cannot always be found…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-29 Chi-Fang Chen , Hsin-Yuan Huang , John Preskill , Leo Zhou

While dissipation has traditionally been viewed as an obstacle to quantum coherence, it is increasingly recognized as a powerful computational resource. Dissipative protocols can prepare complex many-body quantum states by leveraging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Lin Lin

Quantum devices are affected by intrinsic and environmental noises. An in-depth characterization of noise effects is essential for exploiting noisy quantum computing. To this end, we studied the energy dissipative behavior of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Tadashi Kadowaki , Masayuki Ohzeki