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Simulations are performed of a small quantum system interacting with a quantum environment. The system consists of various initial states of two harmonic oscillators coupled to give normal modes. The environment is "designed" by its level…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 George L. Barnes , Michael E. Kellman

Boltzmann provided a scenario to explain why individual macroscopic systems composed of a large number $N$ of microscopic constituents are inevitably (i.e., with overwhelming probability) observed to approach a unique macroscopic state of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Stephan De Bievre , Paul E. Parris

We consider Kac's 1D N-particle system coupled to an ideal thermostat at temperature T, introduced by Bonetto, Loss, and Vaidyanathan in 2014. We obtain a propagation of chaos result for this system, with explicit and uniform-in-time rates…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Roberto Cortez , Hagop Tossounian

Quantum thermodynamics with open systems is often based on the quantum optical weak-coupling master equation or on operational repeated interaction models, whereas early works on thermalisation and on decoherence theory were mostly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-27 Michael Gaida , Giulio Gasbarri , Stefan Nimmrichter

A Hamiltonian-based model of many harmonically interacting massive particles that are subject to linear friction and coupled to heat baths at different temperatures is used to study the dynamic approach to equilibrium and non-equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-17 Roland R. Netz

We show through a nonlinear Fokker-Planck formalism, and confirm by molecular dynamics simulations, that the overdamped motion of interacting particles at T=0, where T is the temperature of a thermal bath connected to the system, can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-02-08 J. S. Andrade , G. F. T. da Silva , A. A. Moreira , F. D. Nobre , E. M. F. Curado

We use computer simulations to study the thermodynamic properties of a glass former in which a fraction $c$ of the particles has been permanently frozen. By thermodynamic integration, we determine the Kauzmann, or ideal glass transition,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-28 Misaki Ozawa , Walter Kob , Atsushi Ikeda , Kunimasa Miyazaki

We investigate dynamics of a small quantum system open to a bath with thermostat. We introduce another bath, called super bath, weakly coupled with the bath to provide it with thermostat, which has either the Lindblad or Redfield type. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-25 Chulan Kwon , Ju-Yeon Gyhm

We consider an open quantum many-particle system in which there are dissipative processes. The evolution of this system is described by a kinetic equation for the density matrix. From the equation describing a random Markov process in this…

General Physics · Physics 2013-02-25 Boris Bondarev

Collisional reservoirs are becoming a major tool for modelling open quantum systems. In their simplest implementation, an external agent switches on, for a given time, the interaction between the system and a specimen from the reservoir.…

We study a statistical model consisting of $N$ basic units which interact with each other by exchanging a physical entity, according to a given microscopic random law, depending on a parameter $\lambda$. We focus on the equilibrium or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Patriarca , Anirban Chakraborti , Kimmo Kaski

In this paper, we consider the Kac stochastic particle system associated to the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for true hard potentials. We establish a rate of propagation of chaos of the particle system to the unique solution of…

Probability · Mathematics 2020-10-22 Chenguang Liu , Liping Xu

We study a distribution of thermal states given by random Hamiltonians with a local structure. We show that the ensemble of thermal states monotonically approaches the unitarily invariant ensemble with decreasing temperature if all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Yoshifumi Nakata , Tobias J. Osborne

From the perspective of non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, modeling the velocity distribution of particles in non-equilibrium, steady-state plasmas presents a significant challenge. Under this context, a family of kappa distributions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Abiam Tamburrini , Sergio Davis , Pablo S. Moya

We study a class of one-dimensional particle systems with true (Bird type) binary interactions, which includes Kac's model of the Boltzmann equation and nonlinear equations for the evolution of wealth distribution arising in kinetic…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-05-05 Roberto Cortez , Joaquin Fontbona

A simple deterministic and time reversal invariant type of thermostat is proposed to be used for computer simulations of classical systems. It acts on collisions with the walls of the container exclusively. It maps the incoming and outgoing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-13 Henk van Beijeren

We show that the Kac particle system converges, as the number of particles tends to infinity, to the solution of the homogeneous Boltzmann equation, in the regime of moderately soft potentials, $\gamma \in (-2,0)$ with the common notation.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Nicolas Fournier , Stéphane Mischler

We investigate the dissipative dynamics of a quantum critical system in contact with a thermal bath. In analogy with the standard protocol employed to analyze aging, we study the response of a system to a sudden change of the bath…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Dario Patanè , Alessandro Silva , Fernando Sols , Luigi Amico

We consider the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation for inelastic hard spheres (with constant restitution coefficient $\alpha \in (0,1)$) under the thermalization induced by a host medium with a fixed Maxwellian distribution. We prove…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-20 José Alfredo Cañizo , Bertrand Lods

We analyze the convergence to equilibrium in a family of Kac-like kinetic equations in multiple space dimensions. These equations describe the change of the velocity distribution in a spatially homogeneous gas due to binary collisions…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-05-13 Federico Bassetti , Daniel Matthes