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The theory of quantum thermodynamics investigates how the concepts of heat, work, and temperature can be carried over to the quantum realm, where fluctuations and randomness are fundamentally unavoidable. These lecture notes provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Patrick P. Potts

Since the very early days of quantum theory there have been numerous attempts to interpret quantum mechanics as a statistical theory. This is equivalent to describing quantum states and ensembles together with their dynamics entirely in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-01-21 R. P. Rundle , Todd Tilma , J. H. Samson , V. M. Dwyer , R. F. Bishop , M. J. Everitt

We present a new method to measure the work $w$ performed on a driven quantum system and to sample its probability distribution $P(w)$. The method is based on a simple fact that remained unnoticed until now: Work on a quantum system can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Augusto J. Roncaglia , Federico Cerisola , Juan Pablo Paz

The work performed on or extracted from a non-autonomous quantum system described by means of a two-point projective-measurement approach takes the form of a stochastic variable. We show that the cumulant generating function of work can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-22 G. Guarnieri , N. H. Y. Ng , K. Modi , J. Eisert , M. Paternostro , J. Goold

Schur-Weyl duality is a powerful tool in representation theory which has many applications to quantum information theory. We provide a generalization of this duality and demonstrate some of its applications. In particular, we use it to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-30 Iman Marvian , Robert W. Spekkens

Recent developments in holographic gravity suggest that spacetime structure may be deeply related to quantum mechanics. In this work, from a different perspective, we demonstrate that wave-particle duality can be interpreted as the…

General Physics · Physics 2026-03-13 Hong Wang , Jin Wang

The composite particle duality extends the notions of both flux attachment and statistical transmutation in spacetime dimensions beyond 2+1D. It constitutes an exact correspondence that can be understood either as a theoretical framework or…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-10-29 Gerard Valentí-Rojas , Joel Priestley , Patrik Öhberg

Despite its enormous empirical success, the formalism of quantum theory still raises fundamental questions: why is nature described in terms of complex Hilbert spaces, and what modifications of it could we reasonably expect to find in some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-27 Marius Krumm , Howard Barnum , Jonathan Barrett , Markus P. Mueller

Quantum coherence and quantum correlations are of fundamental and practical significance for the development of quantum mechanics.They are also cornerstones of quantum computation and quantum communication theory. Searching physically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Ming-Liang Hu , Xueyuan Hu , Jie-Ci Wang , Yi Peng , Yu-Ran Zhang , Heng Fan

Symmetry plays a central role in many areas of modern physics. Here we show that it also underpins the dual particle and wave nature of quantum systems. We begin by noting that a classical point particle breaks translational symmetry…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-21 Joan A. Vaccaro

Operational quantum stochastic thermodynamics is a recently proposed theory to study the thermodynamics of open systems based on the rigorous notion of a quantum stochastic process or quantum causal model. In there, a stochastic trajectory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Philipp Strasberg

How should one define thermodynamic quantities (internal energy, work, heat, etc.) for quantum systems coupled to their environments strongly? We examine three (classically equivalent) definitions of a quantum system's internal energy under…

Quantum mechanics predicts the joint probability distributions of the outcomes of simultaneous measurements of commuting observables, but the current formulation lacks the operational definition of simultaneous measurements. In order to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Masanao Ozawa

In this article, we propose a general principle of quantum interference for quantum system, and based on this we propose a new type of computing machine, the duality computer, that may outperform in principle both classical computer and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Gui Lu Long

We suggest a duality between the statistical and standard (dynamical) distributions of partons in the nucleons. The temperature parameter entering into the statistical form for the quark distributions is estimated. It is found that this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-19 J. Cleymans , G. I. Lykasov , A. N. Sissakian , A. S. Sorin , O. V. Teryaev

Quantum annealing is a generic solver of classical optimization problems that makes full use of quantum fluctuations. We consider work statistics given by a repetition of quantum annealing processes by employing the Jarzynski equality…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2015-05-27 Masayuki Ohzeki , Hidestoshi Nishimori

In the classical regime, thermodynamic state transformations are governed by the free energy. This is also called as the second law of thermodynamics. Previous works showed that, access to a catalytic system allows us to restore the second…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Tulja Varun Kondra , Ray Ganardi , Alexander Streltsov

We study the energy exchange between two bosonic systems that interact via bilinear transformations in the mode operators. The first mode is considered as the thermodynamic system, while the second is regarded as the bath. This work finds…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-23 Chiara Macchiavello , Alberto Riccardi , Massimiliano F. Sacchi

We consider an special dynamics of a quantum walk (QW) on a line. Initially, the walker localized at the origin of the line with arbitrary chirality, evolves to an asymptotic stationary state. In this stationary state a measurement is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-05 Alejandro Romanelli

We formulate a relation between quantum-mechanical coherent states and complex-differentiable structures on the classical phase space ${\cal C}$ of a finite number of degrees of freedom. Locally-defined coherent states parametrised by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 J. M. Isidro