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We present a detailed study of the non-Markovian two-state system dynamics for the regime of incoherent quantum tunneling. Using perturbation theory in the system tunneling amplitude $\Delta$, and in the limit of strong system-bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 M. H. S. Amin , Frederico Brito

We have derived equations for nonadiabatic Ehrenfest molecular dynamics which conserve the total energy in the case of time-dependent discretization for electrons. A discretization is time-dependent in all cases where it or part of it…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-30 Ari Ojanperä , Ville Havu , Lauri Lehtovaara , Martti Puska

We study the effects of the environment on tunneling in an open system described by a static double-well potential. We describe the evolution of a quantum state localized in one of the minima of the potential at $t=0$, both in the limits of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Nuno D. Antunes , Fernando C. Lombardo , Diana Monteoliva , Paula I. Villar

We consider a coupled system of Schr\"odinger equations, arising in quantum mechanics via the so-called time-dependent self-consistent field method. Using Wigner transformation techniques we study the corresponding classical limit dynamics…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2014-06-17 Shi Jin , Christof Sparber , Zhennan Zhou

Relations similar to work and exchange fluctuations have been recently derived for open systems dynamically evolving in the presence of an ancilla. Extending these relations and constructing a non-equilibrium Helmholtz equation we derive a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-23 John Goold , Kavan Modi

The emergence of statistical mechanics for isolated classical systems comes about through chaotic dynamics and ergodicity. Here we review how similar questions can be answered in quantum systems. The crucial point is that individual energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Joshua M. Deutsch

This article investigates the properties of a few interacting particles trapped in a few wells and how these properties change under adiabatic tuning of interaction strength and inter-well tunneling. While some system properties are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-18 N. L. Harshman

We investigate the dynamics of a run-and-tumble particle in a double-well potential and demonstrate that, in stark contrast to Brownian particles, active dynamics can lead to strong ergodicity breaking. When the barrier height exceeds a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-30 Urna Basu , Satya N. Majumdar , Alberto Rosso

We investigate the longstanding problem of thermalization of quantum systems coupled to an environment by focusing on a bistable quartic oscillator interacting with a finite number of harmonic oscillators. In order to overcome the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-22 Sreeja Loho Choudhury , Frank Grossmann

The Ehrenfest urn process, also known as the dogs and fleas model, is realistically simulated by molecular dynamics of the Lennard-Jones fluid. The key variable is Delta z, i.e. the absolute value of the difference between the number of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-03-19 Enrico Scalas , Edgar Martin , Guido Germano

The quantum dynamics of a few bosons in a double well potential is studied using a Bose Hubbard model. We consider both signs for the on-site interparticle interaction and also investigated the situations where they are large and small.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2016-05-25 Sunayana Dutta , Apurba Barman , Anat Siddharth , Ayan Khan , Saurabh Basu

For an asymmetric double-well potential system, it is shown that, if the potential is quadratic until it reaches several times of the zero-point energies from the bottoms in each well, the energy eigenvalues of the low lying excited states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Dae-Yup Song

A semiclassical approximation is derived by using a family of wavepackets to map arbitrary wavefunctions into phase space. If the Hamiltonian can be approximated as linear over each individual wavepacket, as often done when presenting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-30 Clay D. Spence

A strongly non-integrable system is expected to satisfy the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis, which states that the expectation value of an observable in an energy eigenstate is the same as the thermal value. This must be revised if the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-04 Keith R. Fratus , Mark Srednicki

We study an out-of-equilibrium quantum system in which a state connecting two reservoirs is also coupled by stimulated and spontaneous emission of photons to an antitrapped state, thus implementing particle loss. After revisiting the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-04 C. J. Bolech , T. Giamarchi

The ability to tune quantum tunneling is key for achieving selectivity in manipulation of individual particles in quantum technology applications. In this work we count electron escape events out of a time-dependent confinement potential,…

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Accurate simulation of the non-adiabatic dynamics of molecules in excited electronic states is key to understanding molecular photo-physical processes. Here we present a novel method, based on a semiclassical approximation, that is as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-05-24 Alexander White , Sergei Tretiak , Dmitry Mozyrsky

The pseudomode framework provides an exact description of the dynamics of an open quantum system coupled to a non-Markovian environment. Using this framework, the influence of the environment on the system is studied in an equivalent model,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Paul Menczel , Ken Funo , Mauro Cirio , Neill Lambert , Franco Nori

Traditional quantum thermodynamic frameworks associate work to energy exchanges induced by unitary transformations generated by external controls, and heat to energy exchanges induced by bath interaction. Recently, a framework was…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Tiago F. F. Santos , Camille Latune

We investigate the quantum dynamics of an experimentally realized spin-orbit coupled Bose-Einstein condensate in a double well potential. The spin-orbit coupling can significantly enhance the atomic inter-well tunneling. We find the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-03 Dan-Wei Zhang , Li-Bin Fu , Z. D. Wang , Shi-Liang Zhu