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We derive fluctuation relations for a many-body quantum system prepared in a Generalised Gibbs Ensemble subject to a general nonequilibrium protocol. By considering isolated integrable systems, we find generalisations to the Tasaki-Crooks…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 James M. Hickey , Sam Genway

In this paper, an open quantum system theory for spinfoams is developed. This new formalism aims at deriving an effective Lindblad equation to compute the reduced dynamics of a quantum gravitational field. The system parameters are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Quentin Ansel

We present a study of thermalisation of a small isolated Hubbard lattice cluster prepared in a pure state with a well-defined energy. We examine how a two-site subsystem of the lattice thermalises with the rest of the system as its…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-06-14 S. Genway , A. F. Ho , D. K. K. Lee

We study an open quantum system simulation on quantum hardware, which demonstrates robustness to hardware errors even with deep circuits containing up to two thousand entangling gates. We simulate two systems of electrons coupled to an…

We investigate the equilibration and thermalization properties of quantum systems interacting with a finite dimensional environment. By exploiting the concept of time averaged states, we introduce a completely positive map which allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 A. Smirne , E. -M. Laine , H. -P. Breuer , J. Piilo , B. Vacchini

We construct and solve a "minimal model" with which nonequilibrium phenomena in many-body open quantum systems can be studied analytically under time-dependent parameter changes in the system and/or the bath. Coupling a suitable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-28 Emma C. King , Michael Kastner , Johannes N. Kriel

A promising avenue for the preparation of Gibbs states on a quantum computer is to simulate the physical thermalization process. The Davies generator describes the dynamics of an open quantum system that is in contact with a heat bath.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-11 Patrick Rall , Chunhao Wang , Pawel Wocjan

We extend the coupled-cluster method to correlated quantum dynamics of both closed and open systems at finite temperatures using the thermo-field formalism. The approach expresses the time-dependent density matrix in an exponential ansatz…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Philip Shushkov , Thomas F. Miller

Analyzing routes of transport for open quantum systems with non-equilibrium initial conditions is extremely challenging. The state-to-state approach [A. Bose, and P.L. Walters, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2023, 19, 15, 4828-4836] has proven to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Devansh Sharma , Amartya Bose

High fidelity models, which support accurate device characterization and correctly account for environmental effects, are crucial to the engineering of scalable quantum technologies. As it ensures positivity of the density matrix, one…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-01 S. N. A. Duffus , V. M. Dwyer , M. J. Everitt

The heating of trapped ions due to the interaction with a {\it quantized environment} is studied {\it without performing the Born-Markov approximation}. A generalized master equation local in time is derived and a novel theoretical approach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Intravaia , S. Maniscalco , J. Piilo , A. Messina

The internal energy of individual subsystems is not well defined in interacting quantum systems, leading to ambiguities in the definition of thermodynamic quantities. Applying the Schmidt basis formalism to general bipartite autonomous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Fabricio Toscano , Diego A. Wisniacki

We study the nature of thermalization dynamics and the associated preparation (simulation) time under the repeated interaction protocol uncovering a generic anomalous, Mpemba-like trend. As a case study, we focus on a three-level system and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Carlos Ramon-Escandell , Alessandro Prositto , Dvira Segal

Thermofield dynamics has proven to be a very useful theory in high-energy physics, particularly since it permits the treatment of both time- and temperature-dependence on an equal footing. We here show that it also has an excellent…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Gaurav Harsha , Thomas M. Henderson , Gustavo E. Scuseria

We illustrate recent results concerning the validity of the work fluctuation theorem in open quantum systems [M. Campisi, P. Talkner, and P. H\"{a}nggi, Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 102}, 210401 (2009)], by applying them to a solvable model of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-14 Michele Campisi , Peter Talkner , Peter Hänggi

We present a control scheme for quantum systems coupled to a thermal bath. We demonstrate state-to-state control between two Gibbs states. This scheme can be used to accelerate thermalization and cool the open system. Starting from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-11 Roie Dann , Ander Tobalina , Ronnie Kosloff

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 connections between standard theoretical tools used to study open quantum systems can sometimes seem opaque. Whether it is a Lindblad master equation, the equation of motion for the Wigner function or a dissipative Keldysh action,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Alexander McDonald , Aashish A. Clerk

Exploiting the rich phenomenology of periodically-driven many-body systems is notoriously hindered by persistent heating in both the classical and quantum realm. Here, we investigate to what extent coupling to a large thermal reservoir…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-22 Thomas Veness , Kay Brandner

The coherent quantum dynamics of a single bosonic spin variable, subject to a constraint derived from the quantum spherical model of a ferromagnet, and coupled to an external heat bath, is studied through the Lindblad equation for the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-12 Sascha Wald , Malte Henkel