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A quantum dissipation theory is formulated in terms of hierarchically coupled equations of motion for an arbitrary electronic system coupled with grand canonical Fermion bath ensembles. The theoretical construction starts with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-03-17 Jinshuang Jin , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan

Understanding the dynamics of dissipative quantum systems, particularly beyond the weak coupling approximation, is central to various quantum applications. While numerically exact methods provide accurate solutions, they often lack the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-26 Marlon Brenes , Brett Min , Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs , Nir Bar-Gill , Dvira Segal

The laws of thermodynamics require any initial macroscopic inhomogeneity in extended many-body systems to be smoothed out by the time evolution through the activation of transport processes. In generic, non-integrable quantum systems,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-24 Paolo Pietro Mazza , Gabriele Perfetto , Alessio Lerose , Mario Collura , Andrea Gambassi

Using Green's function equation of motion within Lacroix decoupling scheme, we examine the thermoelectric transport features of a strongly interacting quantum dot coupled between metallic leads. We demonstrate that a qualitative description…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-08-22 Sachin Verma , B. S. Tewari , A. Dhyani , Ajay

We study the statistical properties of currents in two particular systems of capacitively coupled parallel transport channels. In the first system, each transport channel contains a single quantum dot in contact with two electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-10-03 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara

In this work we look at the quantum dynamics of the process known as either transport without transit (TWT), or coherent transfer of atomic population (CTAP), of a Bose-Einstein condensate from one well of a lattice potential to another,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 M. K. Olsen

Transport through semiconductor nanostructures is a quantum-coherent process. This paper focuses on systems in which the electron's dynamics is ballistic and the transport is dominated by the scattering from structure boundaries. Opposite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. R. Racec , P. N. Racec , U. Wulf

We show that by integrating out the electric field and incorporating proper boundary conditions, a semiclassical Boltzmann equation can describe electron transport properties, continuously from the diffusive to ballistic regimes. General…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-25 H. Geng , W. Y. Deng , Y. J. Ren , L. Sheng , D. Y. Xing

We study the reduced dynamics of open quantum spin chains of arbitrary length $N$ with nearest neighbour $XX$ interactions, immersed within an external constant magnetic field along the $z$ direction, whose end spins are weakly coupled to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Fabio Benatti , Roberto Floreanini , Laleh Memarzadeh

Heat transport exhibits distinct regimes ranging from ballistic propagation to diffusive relaxation, traditionally described by disparate theoretical frameworks. Here, we introduce a unified first-order operator formulation in which…

Optics · Physics 2026-04-29 Pengfei Zhu

Quantum theoretical treatment of coherent forward scattering of light in a polarized atomic ensemble with an arbitrary angular momentum is developed. We consider coherent forward scattering of a weak radiation field interacting with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. V. Kupriyanov , O. S. Mishina , I. M. Sokolov , B. Julsgaard , E. S. Polzik

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

The large-deviation method can be used to study the measurement trajectories of open quantum systems. For optical arrangements this formalism allows to describe the long time properties of the (non-equilibrium) photon counting statistics in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-12-06 Adrian A. Budini

We study heat transport in a one-dimensional chain of a finite number $N$ of identical cells, coupled at its boundaries to stochastic particle reservoirs. At the center of each cell, tracer particles collide with fixed scatterers,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-04-10 Pierre Collet , Jean-Pierre Eckmann , Carlos Mejia-Monasterio

We review recent developments in the theory of interacting quantum many-particle systems that are not in equilibrium. We focus mainly on the nonequilibrium generalizations of the flow equation approach and of dynamical mean-field theory…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-06-16 M. Eckstein , A. Hackl , S. Kehrein , M. Kollar , M. Moeckel , P. Werner , F. A. Wolf

Quantum thermal transport and two-photon statistics serve as two representative nonequilibrium features in circuit quantum electrodynamics systems. Here, we investigate quantum heat flow and two-photon correlation function at steady-state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-07 Zhe-Huan Chen , Han-Xin Che , Zhe-Kai Chen , Chen Wang , Jie Ren

We review recent developments in nonlinear quantum transport through nanostructures and mesoscopic systems driven by thermal gradients or in combination with voltage biases. Low-dimensional conductors are excellent platforms to analyze both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-14 David Sanchez , Rosa Lopez

We examine energy transport in an ensemble of closed quantum systems driven by stochastic perturbations. One can show that the probability and energy fluxes can be described in terms of quantum advection modes (QAM) associated with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 G. A. Levin , W. A. Jones , K. Walczak , K. L. Yerkes

The Brownian motion of a quantum particle in a harmonic confining potential and coupled to a harmonic quantum thermal bath is exactly solvable. It is shown that at low enough temperatures the stationary state is non-Gibbsian due to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen , A. E. Allahverdyan

Using quantum gas microscopy we study the late-time effective hydrodynamics of an isolated cold-atom Fermi-Hubbard system subject to an external linear potential (a "tilt"). The tilt is along one of the principal directions of the…