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By considering momentum transfer in the Fermi constraint procedure, the stability of the initial nuclei and fragments produced in heavy-ion collisions can be further improved in the quantum molecular dynamics simulations. The case of the…

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We analyze the quantum efficiency of a microwave photon detector based on a current-biased Josephson junction. We consider the Jaynes-Cummings Hamiltonian to describe coupling between the photon field and the junction. We then take into…

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We study the optimal performance of an endoreversible quantum dot heat engine, in which the heat transfer between the system and baths is mediated by qubits, operating under the conditions of a trade-off objective function known as maximum…

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By generalizing the recently developed path integral molecular dynamics for identical bosons and fermions, we consider the finite-temperature thermodynamic properties of fictitious identical particles with a real parameter $\xi$…

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Some notable systems, such as room-temperature superconductors and materials for controlled nuclear fusion, require an accurate description of finite-temperature quantum matter. Stochastic path integral methods are finite-temperature and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-04-06 Ingvars Vitenburgs , Jarvist Moore Frost

Low-dimensional systems with sharp features in the density of states have been proposed as a means to improving the efficiency of thermoelectric devices. Quantum dot systems, which offer the sharpest density of states achievable, however,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-14 Akshay Agarwal , Bhaskaran Muralidharan

We study the optimal performance of Carnot-like heat engines working in low dissipation regime using the product of the efficiency and the power output, also known as the efficient power, as our objective function. Efficient power function…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-26 Varinder Singh , Ramandeep S. Johal

An exact description of integrable spin chains at finite temperature is provided using an elementary algebraic approach in the complete Hilbert space of the system. We focus on spin chain models that admit a description in terms of free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Michał Białończyk , Fernando Javier Gómez-Ruiz , Adolfo del Campo

We complement previous functional renormalization group (fRG) studies of the two-dimensional Hubbard model by mean-field calculations. The focus falls on Van Hove filling and the the hopping amplitude t'/t=0.341. The fRG data suggest a…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Kambis Veschgini , Manfred Salmhofer

We derive a universal thermodynamic uncertainty relation for Fermionic coherent transport, which bounds the total rate of entropy production in terms of the mean and fluctuations of a single particle current. This bound holds for any…

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We generalize the method introduced in J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35, 7255 (2002) based on the concept of thermodynamic equivalence and we transform a Fermi system of general density of states into a thermodynamically equivalent Bose system.…

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We employ quantum variational methods to investigate a single-site interacting fermion-boson system -- an example of a minimal supersymmetric model that can exhibit spontaneous supersymmetry breaking. Our study addresses the challenges…

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We examine the thermodynamic characteristics of unified quantum statistics as a novel framework that undergoes a crossover between Bose-Einstein and Fermi-Dirac statistics by varying a generalization parameter $\delta$. We find an…

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Thermoelectric effects, such as the generation of a particle current by a temperature gradient, have their origin in a reversible coupling between heat and particle flows. These effects are fundamental probes for materials and have…

The efficiency at maximum power (EMP) of heat engines operating as generators is one corner stone of finite-time thermodynamics, the Curzon-Ahlborn efficiency $\eta_{\rm CA}$ being considered as a universal upper bound. Yet, no valid…

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We study the quantum dynamics of conversion of composite bosons into fermionic fragment species with increasing densities of bound fermion pairs using the open quantum system approach. The Hilbert space of $N$-state-function is decomposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-04-12 A. Thilagam

Cyclical heat engines are a paradigm of classical thermodynamics, but are impractical for miniaturization because they rely on moving parts. A more recent concept is particle-exchange (PE) heat engines, which uses energy filtering to…

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We consider the fermionic contributions to the free energy of noncommutative QED at finite temperature $T$. This analysis extends the main results of our previous investigation where we have considered the pure bosonic sector of the theory.…

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