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For a periodically driven quantum system an effective time-independent Hamiltonian is derived with an eigen-energy spectrum, which in the regime of large driving frequencies approximates the quasi-energies of the corresponding Floquet…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-19 Andreas Hemmerich

Linear response theory is ubiquitous throughout physics and plays a central role in the theoretical description of warm dense matter -- an extreme state that occurs within compact astrophysical objects and that is traversed on the…

We prove the validity of linear response theory at zero temperature for perturbations of gapped Hamiltonians describing interacting fermions on a lattice. As an essential innovation, our result requires the spectral gap assumption only for…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-03-19 Stefan Teufel

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) are recently established relations between the relative uncertainty of time-integrated currents and entropy production in nonequilibrium systems. For small perturbations away from equilibrium,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-05 Katarzyna Macieszczak , Kay Brandner , Juan P. Garrahan

We obtain the conductance of a system of electrons connected to leads, within time-dependent density-functional theory, using a direct relation between the conductance and the density response function. Corrections to the non-interacting…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-10-04 P. Bokes , J. Jung , R. W. Godby

We derive a closed equation of motion for the current density of an inhomogeneous quantum many-body system under the assumption that the time-dependent wave function can be described as a geometric deformation of the ground-state wave…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Xianlong Gao , Jianmin Tao , G. Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

The quantum transfer matrix (QTM) approach to integrable lattice Fermion systems is presented. As a simple case we treat the spinless Fermion model with repulsive interaction in critical regime. We derive a set of non-linear integral…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-20 Kazumitsu Sakai , Masahiro Shiroishi , Junji Suzuki , Yukiko Umeno

How biological networks achieve robust control despite relying on imperfect, local information remains an important open question. Here, we identify thermodynamic constraints that can curtail non-equilibrium steady-state responses so…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-27 Carlos Floyd , Aaron R. Dinner , Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

The derivation of linear response theory within polarizable embedding is carried out from a rigorous quantum-mechanical treatment of a composite system. Two different subsystem decompositions (symmetric and nonsymmetric) of the linear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-10-09 Nanna Holmgaard List , Patrick Norman , Jacob Kongsted , Hans Jørgen Aagaard Jensen

We establish some general dynamical properties of lattice many-body systems that are subject to a high-frequency periodic driving. We prove that such systems have a quasi-conserved extensive quantity $H_*$, which plays the role of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-09 D. A. Abanin , W. De Roeck , W. W. Ho , F. Huveneers

This theoretical work considers the following conundrum: linear response theory is successfully used by scientists in numerous fields, but mathematicians have shown that typical low-dimensional dynamical systems violate the theory's…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2018-08-01 Caroline L. Wormell , Georg A. Gottwald

The linear response is investigated in a long-range Hamiltonian system from the view point of dynamics, which is described by the Vlasov equation in the limit of large population. Due to existence of the Casimir invariants of the Vlasov…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Yoshiyuki Y. Yamaguchi , Daiki Sawai

Driven quantum systems may realize novel phenomena absent in static systems, but driving-induced heating can limit the time-scale on which these persist. We study heating in interacting quantum many-body systems driven by random sequences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Hongzheng Zhao , Florian Mintert , Roderich Moessner , Johannes Knolle

Enhanced experimental capabilities to control nonlocal and power-law decaying interactions are currently fuelling intense research in the domain of quantum many-body physics. Compared to their counterparts with short-ranged interactions,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-16 Robert Mattes , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

In this paper, we examine the conditions under which the nonlinear transport theory is inescapable, when a correlated quantum dot is symmetrically coupled to two leads submitted to temperature and voltage biases. By detailed numerical…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-02 J. Azema , P. Lombardo , A. -M. Daré

We study the classical non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of scalar field theory on the lattice. Steady states are analyzed near and far from equilibrium. The bulk thermal conductivity is computed, including its temperature dependence.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Kenichiro Aoki , Dimitri Kusnezov

Linear response theory is a fundamental framework studying the macroscopic response of a physical system to an external perturbation. This paper focuses on the rigorous mathematical justification of linear response theory for Langevin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-08-27 Yuan Gao , Jian-Guo Liu , Zibu Liu

We consider a realistic nonequilibrium protocol, where a quantum system in thermal equilibrium is suddenly subjected to an external force. Due to this force, the system is driven out of equilibrium and the expectation values of certain…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-17 Jonas Richter , Mats H. Lamann , Christian Bartsch , Robin Steinigeweg , Jochen Gemmer

Linear response (LR) theory is a powerful tool in classic quantum chemistry crucial to understanding photo-induced processes in chemistry and biology. However, performing simulations for large systems and in the case of strong electron…

The linear laws of transport phenomena are central in our description of irreversible processes in systems across the physical sciences. Linear irreversible thermodynamics allows for the identification of the underlying forces driving…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-02 Yu-Jen Chiu , Eric M. Weiner , Ahmad K. Omar