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Universality of classical thermodynamics rests on the central limit theorem, due to which, measurements of thermal fluctuations are unable to reveal detailed information regarding the microscopic structure of a macroscopic body. When small…

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We investigate the thermodynamics of a Fermi gas whose single-particle energy levels are given by the complex zeros of the Riemann zeta function. This is a model for a gas, and in particular for an atomic nucleus, with an underlying fully…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Leboeuf , A. G. Monastra

One of the most important goals in quantum thermodynamics is to demonstrate advantages of thermodynamic protocols over their classical counterparts. For that, it is necessary to (i) develop theoretical tools and experimental set-ups to deal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Elisa Bäumer , Matteo Lostaglio , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Rui Sampaio

We study the dynamics of a quantum-coherent thermally isolated Luttinger liquid with noisy Luttinger parameter. To characterize the fluctuations of the absorbed energy in generic noise-driven systems, we first identify two types of energy…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-05-03 Luca D'Alessio , Armin Rahmani

Classical thermodynamics is built with the concept of equilibrium states. However, it is less clear how equilibrium thermodynamics emerges through the dynamics that follows the principle of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Md. Manirul Ali , Wei-Ming Huang , Wei-Min Zhang

We develop a microscopic theory for the dynamics of quantum fluids of light, deriving an effective kinetic equation in momentum space that takes the form of the convection-diffusion equation. In the particular case of two-dimensional…

We study the fluctuation properties of a one-dimensional many-body quantum system composed of interacting bosons, and investigate the regimes where quantum noise or, respectively, thermal excitations are dominant. For the latter we develop…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-07-16 H. -P. Stimming , N. J. Mauser , J. Schmiedmayer , I. E. Mazets

Hydrodynamic equations for a one-component plasma are derived as a generalization of the Euler equations to include the effects of the long-range Coulomb interaction. By using a variational principle, these equations self-consistently unify…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-03-20 Daniels Krimans , Seth Putterman

Starting from the microscopic description of a normal fluid in terms of any kind of local interacting many-particle theory we present a well defined step by step procedure to derive the hydrodynamic equations for the macroscopic phenomena.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-10 Rudolf Haussmann

Thermal fluctuations in time-dependent quantum processes are treated by a constant-temperature generalization of Wigner's formulation of quantum mechanics in phase space. To this end, quantum Nos\`e-Hoover dynamics is defined by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alessandro Sergi , Francesco Petruccione

Previous years researchers began to simulate open quantum system, taking into account the interaction between system and the environment. One approach to deal with this problem is to use the density matrix within the Liouville-von-Neumann…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-15 Mohammad Attrash , Roi Baer

Using functional methods, we investigate the sound quanta arising from quantized hydrodynamic fields in simple liquids at low temperatures, under the influence of high-energy processes, coming from non-hydrodynamic degrees of freedom. To…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-12-24 I. P. de Freitas , F. Sobrero , A. M. S. Macedo , N. F. Svaiter

A gaussian distribution of binding energies, but conditioned to exploit generally available information on packing in liquids, provides a statistical-thermodynamic theory of liquid water that is structurally non-committal, molecularly…

Biological Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. K. Shah , D. Asthagiri , L. R. Pratt , M. E. Paulaitis

We begin by placing the Generalized Lagrangian Mean (GLM) equations for a compressible adiabatic fluid into the Euler-Poincar\'e (EP) variational framework of fluid dynamics, for an averaged Lagrangian. We then derive a set of approximate…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Darryl D. Holm

In the current work we propose a theory for an additional mass diffusion effect in the conventional gas dynamics equations. We find that this effect appears as a homogenization time limit correction, when the deterministic interaction…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-09-28 Rafail V. Abramov

Thermometry is essential for studying many-body physics with ultracold atoms. Accurately measuring low temperatures in these systems, however, remains a significant challenge due to the absence of a universal thermometer. Most widely…

We formulate a canonical quantization of Equilibrium Thermodynamics by applying Dirac's theory of constrained systems. Thermodynamic variables are treated as conjugate pairs of coordinates and momenta, allowing extensive and intensive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-19 Luis F. Santos , Victor Hugo M. Ramos , Danilo Cius , Mario C. Baldiotti , Bárbara Amaral

A theoretical description of quantum mechanical steady states is developed. Applications for simple quantum mechanical systems described in terms of coupled level structures yield a formulation equivalent to time independent scattering…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Segal , A. Nitzan

A formula to calculate the quantum fluctuations of energy in small subsystems of a hot and relativistic gas is derived. We find an increase in fluctuations for subsystems of small sizes, but we agrees with the energy fluctuations in the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2021-10-08 Rajeev Singh

Quantum thermodynamics addresses the emergence of thermodynamical laws from quantum mechanics. The link is based on the intimate connection of quantum thermodynamics with the theory of open quantum systems. Quantum mechanics inserts…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Ronnie Kosloff