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Mobile quantum impurities interacting with a fermionic bath form quasiparticles known as Fermi polarons. We demonstrate that a force applied to the bath particles can generate a drag force of similar magnitude acting on the impurities,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Ovidiu Cotlet , Falko Pientka , Richard Schmidt , Gergely Zarand , Eugene Demler , Atac Imamoglu

A general thermodynamic framework is presented for open quantum systems in fixed contact with a thermal reservoir. The first and second law are obtained for arbitrary system-reservoir coupling strengths, and including both factorized and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Ángel Rivas

We show that quantum mechanical entanglement can prevail even in noisy open quantum systems at high temperature and far from thermodynamical equilibrium, despite the deteriorating effect of decoherence. The system consists of a number N of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Hartmann , W. Dür , H. -J. Briegel

The multi-terminal generalization of the steady-state density functional theory for the description of electronic and thermal transport (iq-DFT) is presented. The linear response regime of the framework is developed leading to exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-11 Nahual Sobrino , Roberto D'Agosta , Stefan Kurth

We investigate nonlinear thermal transport properties of a single interacting quantum dot with two energy levels tunnel-coupled to two electrodes using nonequilibrium Green function method and Hartree-Fock decoupling approximation. In the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chen Xue-Ou , Bing Dong , X. L. Lei

In this perspective, we discuss thermal imbalance and the associated electron-mediated thermal transport in quantum electronic devices at very low temperatures. We first present the theoretical approaches describing heat transport in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Danial Majidi , Justin P. Bergfield , Ville Maisi , Johannes Höfer , Hervé Courtois , Clemens B. Winkelmann

We outline a general approach to the computation of transport properties of interacting systems at low temperetures and frequencies. We show that if the fixed point and the irrelevant operators around it are known, then by studying the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-10 Natan Andrei , Efrat Shimshoni , Achim Rosch

We investigate the electronic transport coefficients in unconventional superconductors at low temperatures, where charge and heat transport are dominated by electron scattering from random lattice defects. We discuss the features of the…

Superconductivity · Physics 2011-04-08 Matthias J. Graf

This paper establishes new connections between many-body quantum systems, One-body Reduced Density Matrices Functional Theory (1RDMFT) and Optimal Transport (OT), by interpreting the problem of computing the ground-state energy of a finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Dario Feliciangeli , Augusto Gerolin , Lorenzo Portinale

The formalism for a linear-response many-body treatment of the electronic contributions to thermal transport is developed for multilayered nanostructures. By properly determining the local heat-current operator, it is possible to show that…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 J. K. Freericks , V. Zlatic , A. M. Shvaika

We analyze the problem of directed quantum transport induced by external exponentially correlated telegraphic noise. In addition to quantum nature of the heat bath, nonlinearity of the periodic system potential brings in quantum…

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

We investigate spin-dependent thermoelectric transport through a system of two coupled quantum dots attached to reservoirs of spin-polarized electrons. Generally, we focus on the strongly correlated regime of transport. To this end, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-20 Łukasz Karwacki , Piotr Trocha

A Tomonaga-Luttinger (TL) liquid is known as an integrable system, in which a non-equilibrium many-body state survives without relaxing to a thermalized state. This intriguing characteristic is tested experimentally in copropagating quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-10 Kosuke Itoh , Ryo Nakazawa , Tomoaki Ota , Masayuki Hashisaka , Koji Muraki , Toshimasa Fujisawa

We present a semi-analytical approach for studying quantum thermal energy transport beyond the weak system-bath coupling regime. Our treatment, which results in a renormalized, effective Hamiltonian model is based on the reaction coordinate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-07 Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs , Dvira Segal

In this review article, we present a non-equilibrium quantum transport theory for transient electron dynamics in nanodevices based on exact master equation derived with the path integral method in the fermion coherent-state representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Pei-Yun Yang , Wei-Min Zhang

We consider bosonic transport through one-dimensional spin systems. Transport is induced by coupling the spin systems to bosonic reservoirs kept at different temperatures. In the limit of weak-coupling between spins and bosons we apply the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-26 Gernot Schaller , Malte Vogl , Tobias Brandes

We study thermal transport in strongly disordered, strongly interacting quantum field theories without quasiparticles using gauge-gravity duality. We analyze linear perturbations of black holes with broken translational symmetry in…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-03-30 Sašo Grozdanov , Andrew Lucas , Koenraad Schalm

We develop a general theory for thermal transport in anharmonic systems under the weak system-bath coupling approximation similar to the quantum master equation formalism. A current operator is derived, which is valid not only in the steady…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-05-28 Juzar Thingna , J. L. García-Palacios , Jian-Sheng Wang

We analyze the heat current traversing a quantum dot sandwiched between a ferromagnetic and a superconducting electrode. The heat flow generated in response to a voltage bias presents rectification as a function of the gate potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-04-24 Sun-Yong Hwang , David Sanchez

In this work, we study quantum heat transport in a single trapped ion, driven by laser excitation and coupled to thermal reservoirs operating at different temperatures. Our focus lies in understanding how different laser coupling scenarios…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-03 T. Tassis , F. Brito , F. L. Semião