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It is often the case that the environment of a quantum system may be described as a bath of oscillators with Ohmic density of states. In turn, the precise characterization of these classes of environments is a crucial tool to engineer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Fahimeh Salari Sehdaran , Matteo Bina , Claudia Benedetti , Matteo G. A. Paris

To control and utilize quantum features in small scale for practical applications such as quantum transport, it is crucial to gain deep understanding of quantum characteristics of states such as coherence. Here by introducing a technique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Laleh Memarzadeh , Azam Mani

Thermal equilibrium states are exponentially hard to distinguish at very low temperatures, making equilibrium quantum thermometry in this regime a formidable task. We present a thermometric scheme that circumvents this limitation, by using…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Ivan Henao , Karen V. Hovhannisyan , Raam Uzdin

The precise measurement of low temperatures is significant for both the fundamental understanding of physical processes and technological applications. In this work, we present a method for low-temperature measurement that improves thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-23 Asghar Ullah , M. Tahir Naseem , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

The problem of mutual equilibration between two finite, identical quantum systems, A and B, prepared initially at different temperatures is elucidated. We show that the process of energy exchange between the two systems leads to accurate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-06-07 A. V. Ponomarev , S. Denisov , J. Gemmer , P. Hänggi

We investigate the dephasing dynamics of a qubit as an effective mechanism for estimating the temperature of its surrounding environment for different symmetrizes. Our approach is fundamentally quantum, leveraging the qubit's susceptibility…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Anass Hminat , Abdallah Slaoui , Rachid Ahl Laamara , Mourad Telmini

We show that certain coherences, termed as heat-exchange coherences, which contribute to the thermalization process of a quantum probe in a repeated interactions scheme, can modify the spectral response of the probe system. We suggest to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Ricardo Román-Ancheyta , Barış Çakmak , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We consider finite sized atomic systems with varying number of particles which have dipolar interactions among them and also under the collective driving and dissipative effect of thermal photon environment. Focusing on the simple case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-25 B. Çakmak , A. Manatuly , Ö. E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We investigate a nonequilibrium quantum thermometry protocol in which an ensemble of qubits, acting as temperature probes, is weakly coupled to a macroscopic thermal bath. The temperature of the bath, the parameter of interest, is encoded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-13 Enrico Trombetti , Marco Malitesta , Marco Pezzutto , Stefano Gherardini

Coherence is a key property of quantum systems, and it plays a central role in the operation and performance of quantum heat engines and refrigerators. Despite its importance for the fundamental understanding in quantum thermodynamics and…

Precise thermometry for quantum systems is important to the development of new technology, and understanding the ultimate limits to precision presents a fundamental challenge. It is well known that optimal thermometry requires projective…

A quantum system and a thermal bath can reach thermal equilibrium through an interaction, whereupon the system acquires the same temperature as the bath. But how does a delocalised quantum system thermalise with a bath whose local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Carolyn E. Wood , Harshit Verma , Fabio Costa , Magdalena Zych

High-precision low-temperature thermometry is a challenge for experimental quantum physics and quantum sensing. Here we consider a thermometer modelled by a dynamically-controlled multilevel quantum probe in contact with a bath. Dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Victor Mukherjee , Analia Zwick , Arnab Ghosh , Xi Chen , Gershon Kurizki

The extension of thermodynamics into the quantum regime has received much attention in recent years. A primary objective of current research is to find thermodynamic tasks which can be enhanced by quantum mechanical effects. With this goal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-10 Mark T. Mitchison , Mischa P. Woods , Javier Prior , Marcus Huber

Temperature determines the relative probability of observing a physical system in an energy state when that system is energetically in equilibrium with its environment. In this paper, we present a theory for engineering the temperature of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Alireza Shabani , Hartmut Neven

A large class of isolated quantum system in a pure state can equilibrate and serve as a heat bath. We show that once the equilibrium is reached, any of its subsystems that is much smaller than the isolated system is thermalized such that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-13 Quntao Zhuang , Biao Wu

Quantum thermometry refers to the study of measuring ultra-low temperatures in quantum systems. The precision of such a quantum thermometer is limited by the degree to which temperature can be estimated by quantum measurements. More…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-15 Sebastian Deffner

Quantum thermometry plays a critical role in the development of low-temperature sensors and quantum information platforms. In this work, we propose and theoretically analyze a hybrid circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture in which a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Shaojiang Zhu , Xinyuan You , Alexander Romanenko , Anna Grassellino

We use the theory of quantum estimation in two different qubit-boson coupling models to demonstrate that the temperature of a quantum harmonic oscillator can be estimated with high precision by quantum-limited measurements on the qubit. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-31 Matteo Brunelli , Stefano Olivares , Mauro Paternostro , Matteo G. A. Paris

Quantum thermalization describes how closed quantum systems can effectively reach thermal equilibrium, resolving the apparent incongruity between the reversibility of Schr\"odinger's equation and the second law of thermodynamics. Despite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Saúl Pilatowsky-Cameo , Soonwon Choi