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Open quantum systems, when driven by a periodic field, can relax to effective statistical ensembles that resemble their equilibrium counterparts. We consider a class of problems in which a periodically- driven quantum system is allowed to…

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We analyze the steady-state energy transfer in a chain of coupled two-level systems connecting two thermal reservoirs. Through an analytic treatment we find that the energy current is independent of the system size, hence violating…

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We present a formalism to study the heat transport and the power developed by the local driving fields on a quantum system coupled to macroscopic reservoirs. We show that, quite generally, two important mechanisms can take place: (i)…

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Particle-exchange machines utilize electronic transport to continuously transfer heat between fermionic reservoirs. Here, we couple a quantum mechanical resonator to a particle-exchange machine hosted in a quantum dot and let the system run…

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The traditional approach to studying near-field thermal transfer is based on fluctuational electrodynamics. However, this approach may not be suitable for nonequilibrium states due to dynamic drivings. In our work, we introduce a…

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We investigate the energy distribution and quantum thermodynamics in periodically driven polaritonic systems in the stationary state at room temperature. Specifically, we consider an exciton strongly coupled to a harmonic oscillator and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-10 Maicol A. Ochoa

It has been observed in many numerical simulations, experiments and from various theoretical treatments that heat transport in one-dimensional systems of interacting particles cannot be described by the phenomenological Fourier's law. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-12 Abhishek Dhar , Anupam Kundu , Aritra Kundu

While thermodynamics is a useful tool to describe the driving of large systems close to equilibrium, fluctuations dominate the distribution of heat and work in small systems and far from equilibrium. We study the heat generated by driving a…

We formulate a general theory to study the time-dependent charge and energy transport of an adiabatically driven interacting quantum dot in contact to a reservoir for arbitrary amplitudes of the driving potential. We study within this…

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We present an overview of time-dependent transport phenomena in quantum systems, with a particular emphasis on steady-state regimes. We present the ideas after the main theoretical frameworks to study open-quantum systems out of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-15 Matteo Acciai , Liliana Arrachea , Janine Splettstoesser

We analyze the time-evolution of a quantum dot which is proximized by a large-gap superconductor and weakly probed using the charge and heat currents into a wide-band metal electrode. We map out the full time dependence of these currents…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-23 Lara C. Ortmanns , Janine Splettstoesser , Maarten R. Wegewijs

We investigate the dynamics of a strongly correlated quantum dot system in the mixed valence regime based on the hierarchical equations of motion (HEOM) approach. The transient and steady state transport properties after a quantum quench…

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A central building block of a heat engine is the working fluid, which mediates the conversion of heat into work. In nanoscale heat engines, the working fluid can be a quantum system whose behavior and dynamics are non-classical. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-29 Riya Baruah , Pedro Portugal , Jun-Zhe Chen , Joachim Wabnig , Christian Flindt

We establish the path integral approach for the time-dependent heat exchange of an externally driven quantum system coupled to a thermal reservoir. We derive the relevant influence functional and present an exact formal expression for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Carrega , P. Solinas , A. Braggio , M. Sassetti , U. Weiss

We analyze the time-dependent solution of master equations by exploiting fermionic duality, a dissipative symmetry applicable to a large class of open systems describing quantum transport. Whereas previous studies mostly exploited duality…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-05-03 Lara C. Ortmanns , Maarten R. Wegewijs , Janine Splettstoesser

We build an exact framework to evaluate heat, energy, and particle transport between Gaussian reservoirs mediated by a quadratic quantum system. By combining full counting statistics with newly developed non-Markovian master equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 Guglielmo Pellitteri , Vittorio Giovannetti , Vasco Cavina

We consider energy (heat) transport in quantum systems, and establish a relationship between energy spread and energy current-current correlation function. The energy current-current correlation is related to thermal conductivity by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Yonghong Yan , Feng Jiang , Hui Zhao

Nonequilibrium energy transport serves as one of fundamental problems in quantum thermodynamics and quantum technologies. Driven quantum master equation in the dressed picture provides an efficient way of investigating nonequilibrium energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-01 Junran Kong , Yuwei Lu , Huan Liu , Liwei Duan , Chen Wang