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The thermodynamic properties of quantum heat engines are stochastic owing to the presence of thermal and quantum fluctuations. We here experimentally investigate the efficiency and nonequilibrium entropy production statistics of a spin-1/2…

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We consider an overdamped particle with a general physical mechanism that creates noisy active movement (e.g., a run-and-tumble particle or active Brownian particle etc.), that is confined by an external potential. Focusing on the limit in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-08-23 Naftali R. Smith

Out-of-equilibrium behavior is explored in the one-dimensional anisotropic $XY$ model. Initially preparing the system in the isotropic $XX$ model with a linearly varying magnetic field to create a domain-wall magnetization profile, dynamics…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-20 Jarrett L. Lancaster

We analytically study a system of spinless fermions driven at the boundary with an oscillating chemical potential. Various transport regimes can be observed: at zero driving frequency the particle current through the system is independent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-22 Marko Znidaric , Bojan Zunkovic , Tomaz Prosen

We investigate the dynamics of a critical XXZ spin-1/2 chain prepared in an inhomogeneous initial state with different magnetizations on the left and right halves. We simulate the real-time evolution using the time-evolving block decimation…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2013-12-16 Thiago Sabetta , Grégoire Misguich

An overview is given of recent advances in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics about the statistics of random paths and current fluctuations. Although statistics is carried out in space for equilibrium statistical mechanics, statistics is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-04-12 Pierre Gaspard

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…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-29 Kay Brandner , Keiji Saito

We consider high temperature KMS states for quantum spin systems on a lattice. We prove a large deviation principle for the distribution of empirical averages $\frac{1}{|\Lambda|} \sum_{i\in\Lambda} X_i$, where the $X_i$'s are copies of a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 K. Netocny , F. Redig

Generic short-range interacting quantum systems with a conserved quantity exhibit universal diffusive transport at late times. We employ non-equilibrium quantum field theory and semi-classical phase-space simulations to show how this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-12-15 Alexander Schuckert , Izabella Lovas , Michael Knap

Using the Lindblad equation approach, we derive the range of the parameters of an interacting one-dimensional electronic chain connected to two reservoirs in the large bias limit in which an optimal working point (corresponding to a change…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-03-23 Andrea Nava , Marco Rossi , Domenico Giuliano

As a fundamental measure of stability in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, fluctuations provide critical insight into the performance and reliability of heat engines. In this work, we establish universal fluctuation-dissipation bounds that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-13 Ousi Pan , Zhiqiang Fan , Shunjie Zhang , Jie Li , Jincan Chen , Shanhe Su

We solve the nonequilibrium dynamics of qubits or quantum spin chains (s=1/2) modeled by an anisotropic XY Hamiltonian, when the initial condition is prepared as a spatially inhomogeneous state of the magnetization. Infinite systems are…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Tygel , J. G. Carvalho , G. G. Cabrera

We consider the non-equilibrium time evolution of piecewise homogeneous states in the XXZ spin-1/2 chain, a paradigmatic example of an interacting integrable model. The initial state can be thought as the result of joining chains with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-28 Bruno Bertini , Mario Collura , Jacopo De Nardis , Maurizio Fagotti

Motivated by the demand of efficient quantum devices to engineer the energy transport, we analyze some inhomogeneous quantum spin systems, including the XXZ chains, with magnetization baths at the ends. Aimed at finding general properties,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-29 Emmanuel Pereira

We develop a theory for charge and spin current between two canted magnetic leads flowing through a quantum dot with an arbitrary local interaction. For a noncollinear magnetic configuration, we calculate equilibrium and nonequilibrium…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Silas Hoffman , Yaroslav Tserkovnyak

The laws of thermodynamics put limits to the efficiencies of thermal machines. Analogues of these laws are now established for quantum engines weakly and passively coupled to the environment providing a framework to find improvements to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-23 Felipe Barra

For boundary-driven non-equilibrium Markov models of non-interacting particles in one dimension, either in continuous space with the Fokker-Planck dynamics involving an arbitrary force $F(x)$ and an arbitrary diffusion coefficient $D(x)$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-07-06 Cecile Monthus

We conjecture that the current fluctuations in one-dimensional driven transport systems obey an upper bound determined by the mean current and the driving force. This inequality originates from repulsive interactions between transporting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-13 Jiayin Gu , Fan Zhang

This work presents a general unifying theoretical framework for quantum non-equilibrium systems. It is based on a re-statement of the dynamical problem as one of inferring the distribution of collision events that move a system toward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-30 David M. Rogers

We utilise the graphon--a continuous mathematical object which represents the limit of convergent sequences of dense graphs--to formulate a general, continuous description of quantum spin systems in thermal equilibrium when the average…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-17 Amy Searle , Joseph Tindall