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We derive an exact analytical expression at stroboscopic intervals for the time-dependent wave function of a class of integrable quantum many-body systems, driven by the periodic delta-kick protocol. To investigate long-time dynamics, we…

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Work belongs to the most basic notions in thermodynamics but it is not well understood in quantum systems, especially in open quantum systems. By introducing a novel concept of work functional along individual Feynman path, we invent a new…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-07-30 Ken Funo , H. T. Quan

We propose a highly-scalable method to compute the statistics of charge transfer in driven conductors. The framework can be applied in situations of non-zero temperature, strong coupling to terminals and in the presence of non-periodic…

We study the work distribution of a single particle moving in a harmonic oscillator with time-dependent strength. This simple system has a non-Gaussian work distribution with exponential tails. The time evolution of the corresponding moment…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-01 Thomas Speck

[This is the unpublished supplemental information from 1989 to the paper: J.M. Deutsch, "Quantum statistical mechanics in a closed system." Phys. Rev. A, 43(4), 2046 (1991).] A closed quantum mechanical system does not necessarily give time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-25 J. M. Deutsch

A distribution of electromagnetic fields presents a statistical assembly of a particular type, which is at scale h a quantum statistical assembly itself and has also been instrumental to concretisation of the basic probability assumption of…

General Physics · Physics 2012-02-28 J. X. Zheng-Johansson

We show that the correlation functions of a class of periodically driven integrable closed quantum systems approach their steady state value as $n^{-(\alpha+1)/\beta}$, where $n$ is the number of drive cycles and $\alpha$ and $\beta$ denote…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-16 Sreemayee Aditya , Sutapa Samanta , Arnab Sen , K. Sengupta , Diptiman Sen

We study periodically driven closed quantum systems where two parameters of the system Hamiltonian are driven with frequencies $\omega_1$ and $\omega_2=r \omega_1$. We show that such drives may be used to tune towards dynamics induced…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-24 Satyaki Kar , Bhaskar Mukherjee , K. Sengupta

The quantum walk (QW) is the term given to a family of algorithms governing the evolution of a discrete quantum system and as such has a founding role in the study of quantum computation. We contribute to the investigation of QW phenomena…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Hao Luo , Peng Xue

A central topic in the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics is the definition of thermodynamic work in the quantum regime. One widely used solution is to define work for a closed system undergoing non-equilibrium dynamics according to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 Harry J. D. Miller , Janet Anders

The work performed on or extracted from a non-autonomous quantum system described by means of a two-point projective-measurement approach takes the form of a stochastic variable. We show that the cumulant generating function of work can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 G. Guarnieri , N. H. Y. Ng , K. Modi , J. Eisert , M. Paternostro , J. Goold

Various aspects of the statistics of work performed by an external classical force on a quantum mechanical system are elucidated for a driven harmonic oscillator. In this special case two parameters are introduced that are sufficient to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-06-05 Peter Talkner , P. Sekhar Burada , Peter Hänggi

We study the full distribution of quantum work in generic, noninteracting, disordered fermionic nanosystems at finite temperature. We derive an analytical determinant formula for the characteristic function of work statistics for quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-18 András Grabarits , Márton Kormos , Izabella Lovas , Gergely Zaránd

We discuss some problems of dissipative chaos for open quantum systems in the framework of semiclassical and quantum distributions. For this goal, we propose a driven nonlinear oscillator with time-dependent coefficients, i.e. with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 T. V. Gevorgyan , A. R. Shahinyan , G. Yu. Kryuchkyan

Work in isolated quantum systems is a random variable and its probability distribution function obeys the celebrated fluctuation theorems of Crooks and Jarzynski. In this study, we provide a simple way to describe the work probability…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Eric G. Arrais , Diego A. Wisniacki , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Fabricio Toscano

Analytical work probability distributions for open classical systems are scarce; they can only be calculated in a few examples. In this work, I present a new method to derive such quantities for weakly driven processes in the overdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-09 Pierre Nazé

We use high-order cumulants to investigate the Lee-Yang zeros of generating functions of dynamical observables in open quantum systems. At long times the generating functions take on a large deviation form with singularities of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-08 James M. Hickey , Christian Flindt , Juan P. Garrahan

The time-dependent work probability distribution function $P(W)$ is investigated analytically for a diffusing particle trapped by an anisotropic harmonic potential and driven by a nonconservative drift force in two dimensions. We find that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Jae Dong Noh , Chulan Kwon , Hyunggyu Park

We consider a system of $N$ non-crossing Brownian particles in one dimension. We find the exact rate function that describes the long-time large deviation statistics of their occupation fraction in a finite interval in space. Remarkably, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-28 Soheli Mukherjee , Naftali R. Smith

We propose the consistent statistical approach to consider a wide class of classical open systems whose states are specified by a set of positive integers(occupation numbers).Such systems are often encountered in physics, chemistry,…

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