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We study the decoherence induced by the environment over a composite quantum system, comprising two coupled subsystems A and B, which may be a harmonic or an upside-down oscillators. We analyze the case in which the B-subsystem is in direct…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

When a quantum system is placed in thermal environments, we often assume that the system relaxes to the Gibbs state in which decoherence takes place in the system energy eigenbasis. However, when the coupling between the system and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-03 Ketan Goyal , Ryoichi Kawai

We report an anomalous decoherence phenomenon of a quantum dissipative system in the framework of a stochastic decoupling scheme along with a hierarchical equations-of-motion formalism without the usual Born-Markov or weak coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Wei Wu , Hai-Qing Lin

In this paper we derive an exact master equation for two coupled quantum harmonic oscillators interacting via bilinear coupling with a common environment at arbitrary temperature made up of many harmonic oscillators with a general spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Chung-Hsien Chou , Ting Yu , B. L. Hu

We study the nonequilibrium steady-state of a fully-coupled network of $N$ quantum harmonic oscillators, interacting with two thermal reservoirs. Given the long-range nature of the couplings, we consider two setups: one in which the number…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-09-27 Francesco Andreucci , Stefano Lepri , Stefano Ruffo , Andrea Trombettoni

Decoherence for a one-dimensional coupled-resonator waveguide with a two-level system inside one of resonators, induced by their interaction with corresponding environments, is investigated. Each environment is modeled as a continuum of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jing Lu , Lan Zhou , H. C. Fu , Le-Man Kuang

At equilibrium, a fluid element, within a larger heat bath, receives random impulses from the bath. Those impulses, which induce stochastic transitions in the system (the fluid element), respect the principle of detailed balance, because…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Aditi Simha , R. M. L. Evans , A. Baule

We study the temporal evolution of entanglement pertaining to two qubits interacting with a thermal bath. In particular we consider the simplest nontrivial spin bath models where symmetry breaking occurs and treat them by mean field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Marco Lucamarini , Simone Paganelli , Stefano Mancini

Steady-state coherence in open quantum systems is crucial for quantum technologies, yet its behavior is not fully understood due to the interplay between collective and individual decoherence. While collective decoherence is thought to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-25 S. L. Wu , W. Ma , Zhao-Ming Wang , P. Brumer , Lian-Ao Wu

We have constructed a non-Hermitian two-level system (a PT -symmetric system) in dissipative environments, and investigated the quantum coherence in the non-Hermitian two-level system. Our results show that, quantum coherence can be created…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 Wei-Chen Wang , Mao-Fa Fang

How quantum coherence influences thermodynamic behavior remains an open question in quantum thermodynamics. Here we investigate this relation within the pure dephasing framework, where a central qubit interacts with a finite Ising-like spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Marino P. Lenzarini , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

Quantum mechanics describes the unitary time evolution of closed systems. In practice, every quantum system interacts with the environment leading to an irreversible loss of coherence. The Spin-Boson model (SBM) is central to the…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Nirmalendu Acharyya , Martin Richter , Benjamin P. Fingerhut

This is the second of a series of three papers examining how viable it is for entanglement to be sustained at high temperatures for quantum systems in thermal equilibrium (Case A), in nonequilibrium (Case B) and in nonequilibrium steady…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-08 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , B. L. Hu

Accurate temperature estimation in the quantum and cryogenic regimes remains a fundamental challenge. Here, we investigate nonequilibrium quantum thermometry using a single-qubit probe coupled to a bosonic bath through noncommuting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Youssef Aiache , Abderrahim El Allati , İlkay Demir , Khadija El Anouz

We study the Markovian dynamics of a collection of n quantum systems coupled to an irreversible environmental channel consisting of a stream of n entangled qubits. Within the framework of repeated quantum interactions, we derive the master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-07 Shakib Daryanoosh , Ben Q. Baragiola , Thomas Guff , Alexei Gilchrist

We investigate a system of two interacting qubits having one of them isolated and the other coupled to a thermal reservoir. We consider two different models of system-reservoir interaction: i) a "microscopic" model, in which the master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 G. L. Deçordi , A. Vidiella-Barranco

In this review, we discuss the decoherence and thermalization of a quantum spin system interacting with a spin bath environment, by numerically solving the time-dependent Schr\"{o}dinger equation of the whole system. The effects of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-27 Shengjun Yuan

We investigate a simple model exhibiting a prethermal phase, i.e. a metastable state that emerges before full thermalization, through the framework of quantum stochastic thermodynamics. We explore the effects of quantum coherence in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Simone Artini , Mauro Paternostro , Salvatore Lorenzo

Motivated by the importance of entanglement and correlation indicators in the analysis of quantum systems, we study the equilibrium and the bipartite residual entropy in a two-species Bose Hubbard dimer when the spatial phase separation of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-01-29 Fabio Lingua , Andrea Richaud , Vittorio Penna

We study the quantum dissipative dynamics of a particle coupled linearly to a set of two-level systems (the heat bath) via the master equation method which we extract from the path integral formalism independently from the form of the bath…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 Paulo C. Marques , Antonio H. Castro Neto