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A universal relation is established between the quantum work probability distribution of an isolated driven quantum system and the Loschmidt echo dynamics of a two-mode squeezed state. When the initial density matrix is canonical, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-24 Aurélia Chenu , Iñigo L. Egusquiza , Javier Molina-Vilaplana , Adolfo del Campo

We investigate the thermodynamics of a quench realized by turning on an interaction generating pure decoherence. We characterize the work probability distribution function, also with a fluctuation relation, a lower bound of the work and by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Gianluca Francica

We study the work statistics of a measurement-based quantum Otto engine, where quantum non-selective measurements are used to fuel the engine, in a coupled spin working system (WS). The WS exhibits quantum coherence in the energy eigenbasis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Chayan Purkait , Shubhrangshu Dasgupta , Asoka Biswas

In this tutorial, we present the definition, interpretation and properties of some of the main quasiprobabilities that can describe the statistics of measurement outcomes evaluated at two or more times. Such statistics incorporate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-23 Stefano Gherardini , Gabriele De Chiara

In this contribution, we aim to illustrate how quantum work statistics can be used as a tool in order to gain insight on the universal features of non-equilibrium many-body systems. Focusing on the two point measurement approach to work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 John Goold , Francesco Plastina , Andrea Gambassi , Alessandro Silva

We propose a method to study the transition to chaos in isolated quantum systems of interacting particles. It is based on the concept of delocalization of eigenstates in the energy shell, controlled by the Gaussian form of the strength…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-15 L. F. Santos , F. Borgonovi , F. M. Izrailev

We study the statistics of work, dissipation, and entropy production of a quantum quasi-isothermal process, where the system remains close to the thermal equilibrium along the transformation. We derive a general analytic expression for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 Matteo Scandi , Harry J. D. Miller , Janet Anders , Marti Perarnau-Llobet

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…

Non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics is essential to describe new devices that operate far from the regime where the usual thermodynamical laws are obeyed. When quantum fluctuations dominate, defining and measuring work and heat, two…

We relate the probability distribution of the work done on a statistical system under a sudden quench to the Lanczos coefficients corresponding to evolution under the post-quench Hamiltonian. Using the general relation between the moments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-19 Kuntal Pal , Kunal Pal , Ankit Gill , Tapobrata Sarkar

Many previous studies have demonstrated that work statistics can exhibit certain singular behaviors in the quantum critical regimes of many-body systems at zero or very low temperatures. However, as the temperature increases, it is commonly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-08 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Wei Wu

In order to investigate the role of initial quantum coherence in work probability distribution, it is necessary to explicitly consider a concrete measurement apparatus to record work rather than implicitly appealing to perform an energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-29 Bao-Ming Xu , Jian Zou , Zhan-Chun Tu

We examine how the presence of an excited state quantum phase transition manifests in the dynamics of a many-body system subject to a sudden quench. Focusing on the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model initialized in the ground state of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-30 Zakaria Mzaouali , Ricardo Puebla , John Goold , Morad El Baz , Steve Campbell

Out-of-equilibrium statistical mechanics is attracting considerable interest due to the recent advances in the control and manipulations of systems at the quantum level. Recently, an interferometric scheme for the detection of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-06 Laura Mazzola , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro

There is a newly emerging understanding that in the chaotic domain of isolated finite interacting many particle systems smoothed densities define the statistical description of these systems and these densities follow from embedded…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2007-05-23 V. K. B. Kota , R. Sahu

We analytically calculate the work distribution of a quantum harmonic oscillator with arbitrary time-dependent angular frequency. We provide detailed expressions for the work probability density for adiabatic and nonadiabatic processes, in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-12 Sebastian Deffner , Eric Lutz

We show that, for sudden quenches, the work distribution reduces to the statistics of traces of powers of Haar unitaries, which are random unitary matrices drawn uniformly from the unitary group. For translation-invariant quadratic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-12 Miguel Tierz

We study numerically and analytically the quench dynamics of isolated many-body quantum systems. Using full random matrices from the Gaussian orthogonal ensemble, we obtain analytical expressions for the evolution of the survival…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-03-07 E. J. Torres-Herrera , Antonio M. García-García , Lea F. Santos

We study the effect of disorder on work exchange associated to quantum Hamiltonian processes by considering an Ising spin chain in which the strength of coupling between spins are randomly drawn from either Normal or Gamma distributions.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-05 Yuanjian Zheng , Dario Poletti

We consider a quantum system driven out of equilibrium via a small Hamiltonian perturbation. Building on the paradigmatic framework of linear response theory (LRT), we derive an expression for the full generating function of the dissipated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-28 Giacomo Guarnieri , Jens Eisert , Harry J. D. Miller