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We generalize the oscillator model of a particle interacting with a thermal reservoir by introducing arbitrary nonlinear couplings in the particle coordinates.The equilibrium positions of the heat bath oscillators are promoted to space-time…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-28 F. Illuminati , M. Patriarca , P. Sodano

A recent promising arena for quantum advantage is simulating exponentially large classical systems. Here, we show how this advantage can be used to calculate the dynamics of open classical systems experiencing dissipation, including the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-17 Agi Villanyi , Yariv Yanay , Ari Mizel

We address the dynamics of quantum correlations for a bipartite continuous-variable quantum system interacting with its fluctuating environment. In particular, we consider two independent quantum oscillators initially prepared in a Gaussian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 J. Trapani , M. G. A. Paris

We analytically study quantum dissipative dynamics described by the Caldirola-Kanai model with inter-particle interactions. We have found that the dissipative quantum dynamics of the Caldirola-Kanai model can be exactly mapped to a…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-09-20 Masaaki Tokieda , Shimpei Endo

It was known that a free, nonrelativistic particle in a superposition of positive momenta can, in certain cases, bear a negative probability current --- hence termed quantum backflow. Here, it is shown that more variations can be brought…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Hong-Yi Su , Jing-Ling Chen

We present a systematic and unifying treatment of the problem of spontaneous nucleation of particle-antiparticle pairs in a (2+1)-dimensional system due to a static and uniform electromagnetic-like field, in the presence of quantum…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Roberto Iengo , Giancarlo Jug

The two-time correlation function of the displacement of a free quantum Brownian particle with respect to its position at a given time is calculated analytically in the framework of the Caldeira and Leggett ohmic dissipation model (linear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-31 Noelle Pottier , Alain Mauger

We study the transport property of diffusion in a finite translationally invariant quantum subsystem described by a tight-binding Hamiltonian with a single energy band and interacting with its environment by a coupling in terms of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Pierre Gaspard

The quantum thermodynamic behavior of small systems is investigated in presence of finite quantum dissipation. We consider the archetype cases of a damped harmonic oscillator and a free quantum Brownian particle. A main finding is that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Peter Hänggi , Gert-Ludwig Ingold

In this work, surface diffusion is studied with a different perspective by showing how the corresponding open dynamics is transformed when passing, in a continuous and smooth way, from a pure quantum regime to a full classical regime; the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-02 E. E. Torres-Miyares , S. Miret-Artés

For a free falling particle moving in a media which has quadratic velocity force effect on the particle, two equivalent constants of motion, with units of energy, two Lagrangians, and two Hamiltonians are deduced. These quantities describe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-10-17 Gustavo Lopez , Pablo Lopez , Xaman-Ek Lopez , Rafael Castro

A Hamiltonian approach is presented to study the two dimensional motion of damped electric charges in time dependent electromagnetic fields. The classical and the corresponding quantum mechanical problems are solved for particular cases…

It is known that for a non-relativistic quantum particle traveling freely on the $x$-axis, the positional probability can flow in the opposite direction to the particle's velocity. The maximum possible amount of such backflow that can occur…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. J. Bracken , J. B. McGuire

Free motion of a quantum particle with the wave function entirely comprised of plane waves with non-negative momenta may be accompanied by negative probability current, an effect called quantum backflow. The effect is weak and fragile, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-25 Arseni Goussev

We introduce a non-equilibrium version of the Caldeira-Leggett model in which a quantum particle is strongly coupled to a set of engineered reservoirs. The reservoirs are composed by collections of squeezed and displaced thermal modes, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Vasco Cavina , Massimiliano Esposito

The time development of the reduced density matrix for a quantum oscillator damped by coupling it to an ohmic environment is calculated via an identity of the Debye-Waller form. Results obtained some years ago by Hakim and the author in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Vinay Ambegaokar

By and large the behavior of stochastic gradient is regarded as a challenging problem, and it is often presented in the framework of statistical machine learning. This paper offers a novel view on the analysis of on-line models of learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Giovanni Bellettini , Alessandro Betti , Marco Gori

A quantum analog of friction (understood as a completely positive, Markovian, translation-invariant and phenomenological model of dissipation) is known to be in odds with the detailed balance in the thermodynamic limit. We show that this is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Dmitry V. Zhdanov , Denys I. Bondar , Tamar Seideman

Quantum dissipation is studied for a discrete system that linearly interacts with a reservoir of harmonic oscillators at thermal equilibrium. Initial correlations between system and reservoir are assumed to be absent. The dissipative…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-23 A. J. van Wonderen , L. G. Suttorp

The quantum dynamics of a simplest dissipative system, a particle moving in a constant external field , is exactly studied by taking into account its interaction with a bath of Ohmic spectral density. We apply the main idea and methods…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-08-17 Sun , C. P , L. H. Yu