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We study the effects of dissipative boundaries in many-body systems at continuous quantum transitions, when the parameters of the Hamiltonian driving the unitary dynamics are close to their critical values. As paradigmatic models, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-09-01 Francesco Tarantelli , Ettore Vicari

We investigate the backflow effect in elementary quantum mechanics - the phenomenon in which a state consisting entirely of positive momenta may have negative current and the probability flows in the opposite direction to the momentum. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. M. Yearsley , J J. Halliwell , R. Hartshorn , A. Whitby

We explore an analogy between the thermodynamics of a free dissipative quantum particle and that of an electromagnetic field between two mirrors of finite conductivity. While a free particle isolated from its environment will effectively be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-26 Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Astrid Lambrecht , Serge Reynaud

While in classical turbulence helicity depletes nonlinearity and can alter the evolution of turbulent flows, in quantum turbulence its role is not fully understood. We present numerical simulations of the free decay of a helical quantum…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2017-06-28 P. Clark di Leoni , P. D. Mininni , M. E. Brachet

Some unexplored decoherence aspects within the Caldeira-Leggett master equation are analyzed and discussed. The decoherence process is controlled by the two environment parameters, the relaxation rate or friction and the temperature,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-04 S. V. Mousavi , S. Miret-Artes

An experimentally inspired model is constructed and rigorously solved from the Hamiltonian level where a dc circular spontaneous flow exists in absence of a magnetic field, irrespective of presence of dissipation causing otherwise proper…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. Capek , J. Bok

We study the real time dynamics of a quantum system with potential barrier coupled to a heat-bath environment. Employing the path integral approach an evolution equation for the time dependent density matrix is derived. The time evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Ankerhold , Hermann Grabert , Gert-Ludwig Ingold

A classical description of the dynamics of a dissipative charged-particle fluid in a quadrupole-like device is developed. It is shown that the set of the classical fluid equations contains the same information as a complex function…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. De Nicola , R. Fedele , V. I. Man'ko

We study the phenomenon of quantum backflow in tight-binding systems with complex couplings, considering different boundary conditions and lattice sizes. Backflow is an intrinsically non-classical effect where the density flux associated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Francisco Ricardo Torres Arvizu , Adrián Ortega , Hernán Larralde

We consider quantum nonlinear systems with dissipation described within the Caldeira-Leggett model, i.e., by a nonlocal action in the path integral for the density matrix. Approximate classical-like formulas are derived in order to evaluate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Cuccoli , A. Fubini , A. Rossi , V. Tognetti , R. Vaia

Couplings of a system to other degrees of freedom (that is, environmental degrees of freedom) lead to energy dissipation when the number of environmental degrees of freedom is large enough. Here we discuss quantal treatments for such energy…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-11-20 M. Tokieda , K. Hagino

We present a detailed study of the quantum dissipative dynamics of a charged particle in a magnetic field. Our focus of attention is the effect of dissipation on the low- and high-temperature behavior of the specific heat at constant…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. Dattagupta , Jishad Kumar , S. Sinha , P. A. Sreeram

Quantum dissipation in thermal environment is investigated, using the path integral approach. The reduced density matrix of the harmonic oscillator system coupled to thermal bath of oscillators is derived for arbitrary spectrum of bath…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-30 I. Joichi , Sh. Matsumoto , M. Yoshimura

The evolution of a turbulent tangle of quantum vortices in presence of finite-size active particles is studied by means of numerical simulations of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. Particles are modeled as potentials depleting the superfluid…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2020-07-01 Umberto Giuriato , Giorgio Krstulovic

The dissipative quantum electromagnetics is introduced in a comprehensive manner as a field-matter-bath coupling problem. First, the matter is described by a cluster of Lorentz oscillators. Then the Maxwellian free field is coupled to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Wei E. I. Sha , Aiyin Y. Liu , Weng Cho Chew

The quantum dissipative dynamics of a tunneling process through double barrier structures is investigated on the basis of a rigorous treatment for the first time. We employ a Caldeira-Leggett Hamiltonian with an effective potential…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-28 Atsunori Sakurai , Yoshitaka Tanimura

For the Caldirola-Kanai system, describing a quantum damped harmonic oscillator, a couple of constant-of-motion operators generating the Heisenberg algebra can be found. The inclusion of the standard time evolution symmetry in this algebra…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-08-21 V. Aldaya , F. Cossío , J. Guerrero , F. F. López-Ruiz

Backflow, or retro-propagation, is a counterintuitive phenomenon where for a forward-propagating wave the energy or probability density locally propagates backward. In this study the energy backflow has been examined in connection with…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-15 Ioannis Besieris , Peeter Saari

We present an introduction to the backflow effect in quantum mechanics -- the phenomenon in which a state consisting entirely of positive momenta may have negative current and the probability flows in the opposite direction to the momentum.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 J. M. Yearsley , J. J. Halliwell

We study the dynamics of a quantum particle coupled to dissipative (ohmic) environments, such as an electron liquid. For some choices of couplings, the properties of the particle can be described in terms of an effective mass. A particular…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Guinea