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We study temperature estimation using quantum probes, including single-mode initial states and two-mode states generated via stimulated parametric down-conversion in a nonlinear crystal at finite temperature. We explore both transient and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Asghar Ullah , M. Tahir Naseem , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We propose a novel approach to qubit thermometry using a quantum switch, that introduces an indefinite causal order in the probe-bath interaction, to significantly enhance the thermometric precision. The resulting qubit probe shows improved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Manish K. Gupta , Arun Kumar Pati

We consider a fermionic quantum system exchanging particles with an environment at a fixed temperature and study its reduced evolution by means of a Redfield-I equation with time-dependent (non-Markovian) coefficients. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Lukas Litzba , Eric Kleinherbers , Jürgen König , Ralf Schützhold , Nikodem Szpak

An approach based on a non-Markovian time-convolutionless polaron master equation is used to probe the quantum dynamics of a chromophore-qubit in a super-Ohmic bath. Utilizing a measure of non-Markovianity based on dynamical fixed points,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-21 Jing Liu , Kewei Sun , Xiaoguang Wang , Yang Zhao

Quantum metrology offers significant improvements in several quantum technologies. In this work, we propose a Gaussian quantum metrology protocol assisted by initial position-momentum correlations (PM). We employ a correlated Gaussian wave…

Thermodynamics relies on the possibility to describe systems composed of a large number of constituents in terms of few macroscopic variables. Its foundations are rooted into the paradigm of statistical mechanics, where thermal properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Antonella De Pasquale , Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti

Gaussian quantum channels are relevant operations in continuous variable systems. In general, given an arbitrary state, the action on it is well-known provided that the quantum channels are completely characterized. In this work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Jonas F. G. Santos , Carlos H. S. Vieira , Wilder R. Cardoso

When a system consists of a large subsystem (bath) and a small one (probe), thermalization implies induction of temperature of the bath onto the probe. If both the bath and the probe are described by same microscopic Hamiltonian,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-12-31 Pinaki Banerjee , Bidisha Chakrabarty , Swapnamay Mondal

The heat capacity $\mathcal{C}$ of a given probe is a fundamental quantity that determines, among other properties, the maximum precision in temperature estimation. In turn, $\mathcal{C}$ is limited by a quadratic scaling with the number of…

We investigate a quadruple quantum dot setup that can be employed to sense the temperature of an electrically isolated remote target reservoir. Such a setup was conceived earlier by S\'anchez et. al. (New Journal of Physics, 19, 113040) as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-23 Sagnik Banerjee , Aniket Singha

A three-level system attached to three thermal baths is manipulated to be a microscopic thermal device integrating a valve, a refrigerator, an amplifier, and a thermometer in the quantum regime, via tuning the inner coupling strength of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yong Huangfu , Shifan Qi , Jun Jing

One of the fundamental problems of quantum statistical physics is how an ideally isolated quantum system can ever reach thermal equilibrium behavior despite the unitary time evolution of quantum-mechanical systems. Here, we study, via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Marvin Lenk , Sayak Biswas , Anna Posazhennikova , Johann Kroha

We investigate, how finite temperature influences quantum coherence in multipartite open systems by analyzing a tripartite spin boson model subjected to non-Markovian dephasing. Two distinct environmental configurations are considered viz.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Pranav Perumalsamy , Abhijit Mandal , Sovik Roy , Md Manirul Ali

Accurately evaluating finite-temperature properties of quantum many-body systems remains a central challenge. Many existing quantum approaches typically require thermal-state preparation at each target temperature, making low-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Hiroto Yamamoto , Katsuhiro Morita

Wave-function methods have offered a robust, systematically improvable means to study ground-state properties in quantum many-body systems. Theories like coupled cluster and their derivatives provide highly accurate approximations to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-05-10 Gaurav Harsha , Thomas M. Henderson , Gustavo E. Scuseria

We address the trade-off between information and disturbance in qubit thermometry from the perspective of quantum estimation theory. Given a quantum measurement, we quantify information via the Fisher information of the measurement and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-16 Luigi Seveso , Matteo G. A. Paris

Obtaining dynamics of an interacting quantum many-body system connected to multiple baths initially at different, finite, temperatures and chemical potentials is a challenging problem. This is due to a combination of the prevalence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Archak Purkayastha , Giacomo Guarnieri , Steve Campbell , Javier Prior , John Goold

We provide a versatile analytical framework for calculating the dynamics of a spin system in contact with a fermionic bath beyond the Markov approximation. The approach is based on a second order expansion of the Nakajima-Zwanzig master…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-18 Stephanie Matern , Daniel Loss , Jelena Klinovaja , Bernd Braunecker

We show through Thermofield Dynamics approach that the action of the thermalized quantum logic gate on the thermalized state is equivalent to thermalization of the state that arise from the application of the non-thermalized quantum logic…

Antiferromagnetic materials hold promising prospects in novel types of spintronics applications. Assessing the stability of antiferromagnetic nanostructures against thermal excitations is a crucial aspect of designing devices with a high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-28 Levente Rózsa , Severin Selzer , Tobias Birk , Unai Atxitia , Ulrich Nowak