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The thermodynamics of quantum systems coupled to periodically modulated heat baths and work reservoirs is developed. By identifying affinities and fluxes, the first and second law are formulated consistently. In the linear response regime,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kay Brandner , Udo Seifert

We demonstrate that combining the positivity of density matrices with steady-state conditions yields a systematic bootstrap method for studying open quantum many-body systems governed by Lindblad master equations on infinite lattices, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-23 Minjae Cho , Colin Oscar Nancarrow , Petar Tadić , Yuan Xin

The quantum adiabatic theorem is a fundamental result in quantum mechanics, with a multitude of applications, both theoretical and practical. Here, we investigate the dynamics of adiabatic processes for quantum many-body systems %in detail…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-15 Vibhu Mishra , Salvatore Manmana , Stefan Kehrein

We construct and solve a "minimal model" with which nonequilibrium phenomena in many-body open quantum systems can be studied analytically under time-dependent parameter changes in the system and/or the bath. Coupling a suitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Emma C. King , Michael Kastner , Johannes N. Kriel

A general quantum adiabatic theorem with and without the time-dependent orthogonalization is proven, which can be applied to understand the origin of activation energies in chemical reactions. Further proofs are also developed for the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2011-11-03 Andrew Das Arulsamy

We propose a method to adiabatically control an atomic ensemble using a decoherence-free subspace (DFS) within a dissipative cavity. We can engineer a specific eigenstate of the system's Lindblad jump operators by injecting a field into the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 Jarrod T. Reilly , Simon B. Jäger , John Cooper , Murray J. Holland

We derive the theory of open quantum system dynamics intervened by a series of nonselective measurements. We analyze the cases of time independent and time dependent Hamiltonian dynamics in between the measurements and find the approximate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Sergey N. Filippov

One of the challenges of adiabatic control theory is the proper inclusion of the effects of dissipation. Here, we study the adiabatic dynamics of an open two-level quantum system deriving a generalized master equation to consistently…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. P. Pekola , V. Brosco , M. Mottonen , P. Solinas , A. Shnirman

The adiabatic theorem is a fundamental result established in the early days of quantum mechanics, which states that a system can be kept arbitrarily close to the instantaneous ground state of its Hamiltonian if the latter varies in time…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-06-01 Oleg Lychkovskiy , Oleksandr Gamayun , Vadim Cheianov

Mixed-quantum-classical molecular dynamics simulation implies an effective measurement on the electronic states owing to continuously tracking the atomic forces.Based on this insight, we propose a quantum trajectory mean-field approach for…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2014-08-08 Wei Feng , Luting Xu , Xin-Qi Li , Weihai Fang , YiJing Yan

The quantum adiabatic theorem is fundamental to time dependent quantum systems, but being able to characterize quantitatively an adiabatic evolution in many-body systems can be a challenge. This work demonstrates that the use of appropriate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 A. H. Skelt , I. D'Amico

Adiabatic protocols are employed across a variety of quantum technologies, from implementing state preparation and individual operations that are building blocks of larger devices, to higher-level protocols in quantum annealing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Ieva Čepaitė , Anatoli Polkovnikov , Andrew J. Daley , Callum W. Duncan

Bounds to the speed of evolution of a quantum system are of fundamental interest in quantum metrology, quantum chemical dynamics and quantum computation. We derive a time-energy uncertainty relation for open quantum systems undergoing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 A. del Campo , I. L. Egusquiza , M. B. Plenio , S. F. Huelga

The theory of quantum Brownian motion describes the properties of a large class of open quantum systems. Nonetheless, its description in terms of a Born-Markov master equation, widely used in the literature, is known to violate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-16 Aniello Lampo , Soon Hoe Lim , Jan Wehr , Pietro Massignan , Maciej Lewenstein

We introduce a class of quantum adiabatic evolutions that we claim may be interpreted as the equivalents of the unitary gates of the quantum gate model. We argue that these gates form a universal set and may therefore be used as building…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-19 Itay Hen

The combined quantum electron-nuclear dynamics is often associated with the Born-Huang expansion of the molecular wave function and the appearance of nonadiabatic effects as a perturbation. On the other hand, native multicomponent…

We discuss bounds for nonadiabatic transitions from the viewpoints of the adiabatic perturbation theory and the quantum speed limit. We show that the amount of nonadiabatic transitions from the $n$th level to the $m$th level is bounded by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Takuya Hatomura , Go Kato

Shortcuts to adiabaticity (STA) are powerful quantum control methods, allowing quick evolution into target states of otherwise slow adiabatic dynamics. Such methods have widespread applications in quantum technologies, and various STA…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Zelong Yin , Chunzhen Li , Jonathan Allcock , Yicong Zheng , Xiu Gu , Maochun Dai , Shengyu Zhang , Shuoming An

We develop a theory of adiabatic response for open systems governed by Lindblad evolutions. The theory determines the dependence of the response coefficients on the dephasing rates and allows for residual dissipation even when the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-26 J. E. Avron , M. Fraas , G. M. Graf , O. Kenneth

It is well-known that time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation can only be exactly solvable in very rare cases, even for two-level quantum systems. Therefore, finding exact quantum dynamics under time-dependent Hamiltonian is not only of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Zhi-Cheng He , Yi-Xuan Wu , Zheng-Yuan Xue