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Technological and scientific advances have given rise to an era in which coherent quantum-mechanical phenomena can be probed and experimentally-realised over unprecedented timescales in condensed matter physics. In turn, scientific interest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-23 Marlon Brenes

Thermalization of an isolated quantum system has been a nontrivial problem since the early days of quantum mechanics. In generic isolated quantum systems, nonequilibrium dynamics is expected to result in thermalization, indicating the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-22 Tanmay Saha , Pratik Ghosal , Pratapaditya Bej , Abhishek Banerjee , Prasenjit Deb

It is often claimed, that from a quantum system of d levels, and entropy S and heat bath of temperature T one can draw kT(ln d -S) amount of work. However, the usual arguments based on Szilard engine are not fully rigorous. Here we prove…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Alicki , Michal Horodecki , Pawel Horodecki , Ryszard Horodecki

We study intraenvironmental classical and quantum correlations in a thermal machine, which is modeled as a driven quantum system coupled with thermal reservoirs. We compute the mutual information, the quantum discord, and the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-12 Milton Aguilar , Juan Pablo Paz

Thermalization is the process through which a physical system evolves toward a state of thermal equilibrium. Determining whether or not a physical system will thermalize from an initial state has been a key question in condensed matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Dhruv Devulapalli , T. C. Mooney , James D. Watson

We investigate the possibility to generate quantum-correlated quasi-particles utilizing analogue gravity systems. The quantumness of these correlations is a key aspect of analogue gravity effects and their presence allows for a clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-08 David Edward Bruschi , Nicolai Friis , Ivette Fuentes , Silke Weinfurtner

We show that in a linear quantum machine, a driven quantum system that evolves while coupled with thermal reservoirs, entanglement between the reservoir modes is unavoidably generated. This phenomenon, which occurs at sufficiently low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Milton Aguilar , Nahuel Freitas , Juan Pablo Paz

Entanglement being a foundational cornerstone of quantum sciences and the primary resource in quantum information processing, understanding its dynamical evolution in realistic conditions is essential. Unfortunately, numerous model studies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-14 Onat Arısoy , Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

Results on heat current, entropy production rate and entanglement are reported for a quantum system coupled to two different temperature heat reservoirs. By applying a temperature gradient, different quantum states can be found with exactly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Luis Quiroga , Ferney J. Rodriguez , Maria E. Ramirez , Roberto Paris

Understanding under which conditions physical systems thermalize is a long-standing question in many-body physics. While generic quantum systems thermalize, there are known instances where thermalization is hindered, for example in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-08 Carlo Sparaciari , Marcel Goihl , Paul Boes , Jens Eisert , Nelly Huei Ying Ng

We have found that for a wide range of two-qubit Hamiltonians the canonical-ensemble thermal state is entangled in two distinct temperature regions. In most cases the ground state is entangled; however we have also found an example where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dominic W. Berry , Mark R. Dowling

Entanglement is the hallmark of quantum physics, yet its characterization in interacting many-body systems at thermal equilibrium remains one of the most important challenges in quantum statistical physics. We prove that the Gibbs state of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Ainesh Bakshi , Soonwon Choi , Saúl Pilatowsky-Cameo

In a closed system, the total number of particles is fixed. We ask how much does this conservation law restrict the amount of entanglement that can be created. We derive a tight upper bound on the bipartite entanglement entropy in closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 Dana Faiez , Dominik Šafránek

The investigation of thermalization in isolated quantum many-body systems has a long history, dating back to the time of developing statistical mechanics. Most quantum many-body systems in nature are considered to thermalize, while some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-25 Naoto Shiraishi , Keiji Matsumoto

We present studies of thermal entanglement of a three-spin system in triangular symmetry. Spin correlations are described within an effective Heisenberg Hamiltonian, derived from the Hubbard Hamiltonian, with super-exchange couplings…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-13 M. Urbaniak , S. B. Tooski , A. Ramsak , B. R. Bulka

We introduce the idea of weakly coherent collisional models, where the elements of an environment interacting with a system of interest are prepared in states that are approximately thermal, but have an amount of coherence proportional to a…

We investigate how much information about a quantum system can be simultaneously communicated to independent observers, by establishing quantitative limits to bipartite quantum correlations in many-body systems. As recently reported in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-09 Davide Girolami , Michele Minervini

We demonstrate that the presence of entanglement in macroscopic bodies (e.g. solids) in thermodynamical equilibrium could be revealed by measuring heat-capacity. The idea is that if the system were in a separable state, then for certain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-08-14 Marcin Wiesniak , Vlatko Vedral , Caslav Brukner

Quantum entanglement plays a crucial role not only in understanding Hermitian many-body systems but also in offering valuable insights into non-Hermitian quantum systems. In this paper, we analytically investigate the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-09 Pei-Yun Yang , Yu-Chin Tzeng

We use concepts from quantum cryptography to relate the entanglement in many-body mixed states to standard correlation functions. If a system can be used as a resource for distilling private keys -- random classical bits that are shared by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Samuel J. Garratt , Max McGinley