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We show through the Choi matrix approach that the effect of Unruh acceleration on a qubit is similar to the interaction of the qubit with a vacuum bath, despite the finiteness of the Unruh temperature. Thus, rather counterintuitvely, from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-26 Subhashish Banerjee , Ashutosh Kumar Alok , S. Omkar , R. Srikanth

We study the relaxation properties of the quantized electromagnetic field in a cavity under repeated interactions with single two-level atoms, so-called one-atom maser. We improve the ergodic results obtained in [BP] and prove that,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Laurent Bruneau

A free particle coupled to a heat bath can exhibit a number of thermodynamic anomalies like a negative specific heat or reentrant classicality. These low-temperature phenomena are expected to be modified at very low temperatures where…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-11 Robert Adamietz , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Ulrich Weiss

We study the abundance of a particle species in a thermalized plasma by introducing a quantum kinetic description based on the non-equilibrium effective action. A stochastic interpretation of quantum kinetics in terms of a Langevin equation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 D. Boyanovsky , K. Davey , C. M. Ho

The zeroth law of thermodynamics involves a transitivity relation (pairwise between three objects) expressed either in terms of `equal temperature' (ET), or `in equilibrium' (EQ) conditions. In conventional thermodynamics conditional on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-21 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

The goal of quantum metrology is the exploitation of quantum resources, like entanglement or quantum coherence, in the fundamental task of parameter estimation. Here we consider the question of the estimation of the Unruh temperature in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-27 Danilo Borim , Lucas C. Céleri , Vasileios I. Kiosses

Potential applications of quantum dots in the nanotechnology industry make these systems an important field of study in various areas of physics. In particular, thermodynamics has a significant role in technological innovations. With this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Luís Fernando C. Pereira , Edilberto O. Silva

In this paper, we study the thermodynamic properties of the noncommutative quantum Hall effect (NCQHE) with anomalous magnetic moment (AMM) for both relativistic and nonrelativistic cases in the high temperatures regime. Thus, we use the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-02-10 R. R. S. Oliveira , R. R. Landim

We investigate the thermodynamical properties of the apparent horizon in a fractal universe. We find that one can always rewrite the Friedmann equation of the fractal universe in the form of the entropy balance relation $ \delta Q=T_h…

General Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Ahmad Sheykhi , Zeinab Teimoori , Bin Wang

We present a new method for evaluating the response of a moving qubit detector interacting with a scalar field in Minkowski spacetime. We treat the detector as an open quantum system, but we do not invoke the Markov approximation. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-01 Dimitris Moustos , Charis Anastopoulos

The Unruh effect establishes a fundamental equivalence between acceleration and thermality by demonstrating that a uniformly accelerated ground-state detector undergoes excitation as if immersed in a thermal bath. In this paper, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-14 Shijing Cheng , Wenting Zhou , Hongwei Yu

Dirac-Frenkel variational method with Davydov D2 trial wavefunction is extended by introducing a thermalization algorithm and applied to simulate dynamics of a general open quantum system. The algorithm allows to control temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Mantas Jakučionis , Darius Abramavičius

We present a detailed analysis of slowly driven quantum thermal machines based on interacting qubits within the framework of the Lindblad master equation. By implementing a systematic expansion in the driving rate, we derive explicit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-27 Gerónimo J. Caselli , Luis O. Manuel , Liliana Arrachea

We study the dynamics of a zero-temperature overdamped tracer in a bath of Brownian particles. As the bath density is increased, numerical simulations show the tracer to transition from an active dynamics, characterized by boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Amer Al-Hiyasat , Sunghan Ro , Julien Tailleur

Deep thermalization refers to the emergence of Haar-like randomness from quantum systems upon partial measurements. As a generalization of quantum thermalization, it is often associated with high complexity and entanglement. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Shantanav Chakraborty , Soonwon Choi , Soumik Ghosh , Tudor Giurgică-Tiron

We study a chain of interacting individual quantum systems connected to heat baths at different temperatures on both ends. Starting with the two-system case, we thoroughly investigate the conditions for heat rectification (asymmetric heat…

In this Letter, we explore dynamics in a three-dimensional strongly interacting liquid. In quantum liquids discussed below, thermodynamic properties such as pressure and thermal energies are fully characterized by $s(T)$, the entropy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-01-31 Shao-Jian Jiang , Fei Zhou

Quantum dissipation in thermal environment is investigated, using the path integral approach. The reduced density matrix of the harmonic oscillator system coupled to thermal bath of oscillators is derived for arbitrary spectrum of bath…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Joichi , Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

Rich quantum effects emerge when several quantum systems are indistinguishable from the point of view of the bath they interact with. In particular, delocalised excitations corresponding to coherent superposition of excited states appear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-24 Camille L. Latune , Ilya Sinayskiy , Francesco Petruccione

We consider the real $\beta$-ensemble (or 1D log-gas) of dimension $N$ in the high-temperature regime, \textit{i.e.} where the inverse temperature $\beta$ scales as $N\beta=2P$ with $P$ a fixed positive parameter. We establish the large-$N$…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Charlie Dworaczek Guera