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We study under which conditions an overdamped regime can be attained in the dynamic evolution of a quantum field configuration. Using a real-time formulation of finite temperature field theory, we compute the effective evolution equation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 Arjun Berera , Marcelo Gleiser , Rudnei O. Ramos

The theory of open quantum systems plays a fundamental role in several scientific and technological disciplines, from quantum computing and information science to molecular electronics and quantum thermodynamics. Despite its widespread…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Stefano Giordano , Fabrizio Cleri , Ralf Blossey

By means of studying the evolution equation for the Wigner distributions of quantum dissipative systems we derive the quantum corrections to the classical Liouville dynamics, taking into account the standard quantum friction model. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Gabriel G. Carlo , Leonardo Ermann , Alejandro M. F. Rivas

Simulating quantum many-body systems is a highly demanding task since the required resources grow exponentially with the dimension of the system. In the case of fermionic systems, this is even harder since nonlocal interactions emerge due…

The physics of many materials is modeled by quantum many-body systems with local interactions. If the model of the system is sensitive to noise from the environment, or small perturbations to the original interactions, it will not properly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-29 Angelo Lucia , Toby S. Cubitt , Spyridon Michalakis , David Pérez-García

For a quantum system coupled to a heat bath environment the strong friction limit is studied starting from the exact path integral formulation. Generalizing the classical Smoluchowski limit to low temperatures a time evolution equation for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joachim Ankerhold , Philip Pechukas , Hermann Grabert

The success of adiabatic quantum computation (AQC) depends crucially on the ability to maintain the quantum computer in the ground state of the evolution Hamiltonian. The computation process has to be sufficiently slow as restricted by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-07-31 Man-Hong Yung

A formalism for quantum many-body systems is proposed through a semiclassical treatment in phase space, allowing us to establish a stochastic thermodynamics incorporating quantum statistics. Specifically, we utilize a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Zhaoyu Fei

An efficient Path Integral Monte Carlo procedure is proposed to simulate the behavior of quantum many-body dissipative systems described within the framework of the influence functional. Thermodynamic observables are obtained by Monte Carlo…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Luca Capriotti , Alessandro Cuccoli , Andrea Fubini , Valerio Tognetti , Ruggero Vaia

In the current era of noisy quantum devices, there is a need for quantum algorithms that are efficient and robust against noise. Towards this end, we introduce the projected cooling algorithm for quantum computation. The projected cooling…

Measuring local temperatures of open systems out of equilibrium is emerging as a novel approach to study the local thermodynamic properties of nanosystems. An operational protocol has been proposed to determine the local temperature by…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-02-17 Xiangzhong Zeng , Lyuzhou Ye , Daochi Zhang , Rui-Xue Xu , Xiao Zheng , Massimiliano Di Ventra

We report on a microscopic theory of quantum friction. Our approach investigates the interplay between the dispersive response and the relative center-of-mass motion of two ground-state atoms. This coupling yields a quantum force, which can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Pedro H. Pereira , F. Impens , C. Farina , P. A. Maia Neto , R. de Melo e Souza

We study a new method - called Schrodingerisation introduced in [Jin, Liu, Yu, arXiv: 2212.13969] - for solving general linear partial differential equations with quantum simulation. This method converts linear partial differential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-22 Shi Jin , Nana Liu , Yue Yu

Beginning from the semiclassical Hamiltonian, the Fermi pressure and Bohm potential for the quantum hydrodynamics application (QHD) at finite temperature are consistently derived in the framework of the local density approximation with the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Zh. A. Moldabekov , M. Bonitz , T. S. Ramazanov

We develop a perturbation theory of quantum (and classical) master equations with slowly varying parameters, applicable to systems which are externally controlled on a time scale much longer than their characteristic relaxation time. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-09 Vasco Cavina , Andrea Mari , Vittorio Giovannetti

For open quantum systems,a short-time evolution is usually well described by the effective non-Hermitian Hamiltonians,while long-time dynamics requires the Lindblad master equation,in which the Liouvillian superoperators characterize the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Jilian Zhong , Xiaoyue Li

We analyze the stochastic evolution and dephasing of a qubit within the quantum jump (QJ) approach. It allows one to treat individual realizations of inelastic processes, and in this way it provides solutions, for instance, to problems in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-08-21 J. P. Pekola , Y. Masuyama , Y. Nakamura , J. Bergli , Y. M. Galperin

The cooling effects of a quantum LC circuit coupled inductively with an ensemble of artificial qubits are investigated. The particles may decay independently or collectively through their interaction with the environmental vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mihai A. Macovei

In this work, we develop an analytical framework to understand quantum friction across distinct stability regimes, providing approximate expressions for frictional forces both in the deep stable regime and near the critical threshold of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Daigo Oue , Boris Shapiro , Mário G. Silveirinha

A wide variety of dissipative and fluctuation problems involving a quantum system in a heat bath can be described by the independent-oscillator (IO) model Hamiltonian. Using Heisenberg equations of motion, this leads to a generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. F. O'Connell