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We consider the unitary time evolution of a one-dimensional quantum system which is in a stationary state for negative times and then undergoes a sudden change (quench) of a parameter of its Hamiltonian at t=0. For systems possessing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-09 Gesualdo Delfino

The role of quantum entanglement in thermodynamical systems remains elusive. Does entanglement result in thermodynamic advantages or does it impose fundamental limitations? Here, we unambiguously quantify the amount of heat and work in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-23 Joan Alba , Laura Ares , Jan Sperling , Julien Pinske

In this paper we propose a framework for simulating thermal particle production in condensed matter systems. The procedure we describe can be realized by means of a quantum quench of a parameter in the model. In order to support this claim,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-02-12 Francesco Caravelli , Fotini Markopoulou , Arnau Riera , Lorenzo Sindoni

Using tensor network methods, we simulate the real-time evolution of the lattice Thirring model quenched out of equilibrium in both the critical and massive phases and study the appearance of dynamical quantum phase transitions, as…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2025-06-25 Mari Carmen Bañuls , Krzysztof Cichy , Hao-Ti Hung , Ying-Jer Kao , C. -J. David Lin , Amit Singh

In this work, we address the question of how a closed quantum system thermalises in the presence of a random external potential. By investigating the quench dynamics of the isolated quantum spherical $p$-spin model, a paradigmatic model of…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2020-09-23 S. J. Thomson , P. Urbani , M. Schiro

How should one define thermodynamic quantities (internal energy, work, heat, etc.) for quantum systems coupled to their environments strongly? We examine three (classically equivalent) definitions of a quantum system's internal energy under…

The thermodynamic limit of the internal energy and the entropy of the system of quantum interacting particles in random medium is shown to exist under the crucial requirements of stability and temperedness of interactions. The energy turns…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-24 Nikolaj A. Veniaminov

In closed quantum systems, a dynamical phase transition is identified by nonanalytic behaviors of the return probability as a function of time. In this work, we study the nonunitary dynamics following quenches across exceptional points in a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-29 Longwen Zhou , Qing-hai Wang , Hailong Wang , Jiangbin Gong

We discuss recently introduced numerical linked-cluster (NLC) algorithms that allow one to obtain temperature-dependent properties of quantum lattice models, in the thermodynamic limit, from exact diagonalization of finite clusters. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-06-25 Marcos Rigol , Tyler Bryant , Rajiv R. P. Singh

We present an algorithm to simulate two-dimensional quantum lattice systems in the thermodynamic limit. Our approach builds on the {\em projected entangled-pair state} algorithm for finite lattice systems [F. Verstraete and J.I. Cirac,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Jordan , R. Orus , G. Vidal , F. Verstraete , J. I. Cirac

We present two recent works on the thermodynamic limit of quantum Coulomb systems, in which we provided a general method allowing to show the existence of the limit for many different models.

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Christian Hainzl , Mathieu Lewin , Jan Philip Solovej

We consider a quantum quench in a non-interacting fermionic one-dimensional field-theory. The system of size $L$ is initially prepared into two halves $\mathcal{L}$ ($[-L/2,0]$) and $\mathcal{R}$ ($[0,L/2]$), each of them thermalized at two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-23 Mario Collura , Dragi Karevski

The dynamics of the Luttinger model after a quantum quench is studied. We compute in detail one and two-point correlation functions for two types of quenches: from a non-interacting to an interacting Luttinger model and vice-versa. In the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-03-29 A. Iucci , M. A. Cazalilla

Split-gate constrictions can be used to produce controllable scattering in a fractional quantum Hall state and constitute a very versatile model system for the investigation of non-Fermi physics in edge states. Controllable inter-edge…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-03-24 Stefano Roddaro , Vittorio Pellegrini , Fabio Beltram

We take the perspective of open quantum systems and examine from their nonequilibrium dynamics the conditions when the physical quantities, their relations and the laws of thermodynamics become well defined and viable for quantum many body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , C. H. Chou , Y. Subaşi , B. L. Hu

Entanglement and entropy are key concepts standing at the foundations of quantum and statistical mechanics, respectively. In the last decade the study of quantum quenches revealed that these two concepts are intricately intertwined.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-08-21 Vincenzo Alba , Pasquale Calabrese

In this work we propose to simulate many-body thermodynamics of infinite-size quantum lattice models in one, two, and three dimensions, in terms of few-body models of only O(10) sites, which we coin as quantum entanglement simulators…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-23 Shi-Ju Ran , Bin Xi , Cheng Peng , Gang Su , Maciej Lewenstein

We demonstrate that at finite density and sufficiently high temperatures, phase-quenched (PQ) lattice simulations combined with perturbation theory provide a new precision approach to determining the thermodynamics of QCD across a wide arc…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-14 Tyler Gorda , Pablo Navarrete , Risto Paatelainen , Leon Sandbote , Kaapo Seppänen

We run a numerical linked-cluster expansion with a quantum algorithm (NLCE+QA), computing ground-state energies and one quasi-particle dispersions in the thermodynamic limit using a 20-qubit trapped-ion quantum processing unit (QPU). The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Lucas Marti , Sumeet , Stefan Wolf , K. P. Schmidt , Michael J. Hartmann

The quantum null energy condition (QNEC) is a lower bound on the energy-momentum tensor in terms of the variation of the entanglement entropy of a sub-region along a null direction. To gain insights into quantum thermodynamics of many-body…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-05-11 Tanay Kibe , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Pratik Roy