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Speeding up the relaxation dynamics of many-body quantum systems is important in a variety of contexts, including quantum computation and state preparation. We demonstrate that such acceleration can be universally achieved via transient…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-12 Parvinder Solanki , Igor Lesanovsky , Gabriele Perfetto

We study the internal dynamics of an elementary quantum system placed close to a body held at a temperature different from that of the surrounding radiation. We derive general expressions for lifetime and density matrix valid for bodies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Bruno Bellomo , Riccardo Messina , Mauro Antezza

Resetting or restart, when applied to a stochastic process, usually brings its dynamics to a time-independent stationary state. In turn, the optimal resetting rate makes the mean time to reach a target to be the shortest one. These and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Przemyslaw Chelminiak

Diffusion of a penetrating liquid in a polymeric material does not often satisfy the classical diffusion equations and requires taking relaxational (viscoelastic) properties of the polymer into account. We investigate a boundary value…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-05-14 Dmitry A. Vorotnikov

A dynamical process that takes a random time to complete, e.g., a chemical reaction, may either be accelerated or hindered due to resetting. Tuning system parameters such as temperature, viscosity or concentration, can invert the effect of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-19 Somrita Ray , Shlomi Reuveni

We investigate the energy relaxation process produced by thermal baths at zero temperature acting on the boundary atoms of chains of classical anharmonic oscillators. Time-dependent perturbation theory allows us to obtain an explicit…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2016-09-08 F. Piazza , S. Lepri , R. Livi

We extract the complex frequency of the lowest quasi-normal mode from the holographically computed entropy density near thermodynamic equilibrium. The system consists of a purely thermal Supersymmetric Yang-Mills N=4 plasma in homogeneous…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-26 L. Araque , W. Barreto

The principal theme of this paper is that anomalously slow, super-Arrhenius relaxations in glassy materials may be activated processes involving chains of molecular displacements. As pointed out in a preceding paper with A. Lemaitre, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-11 J. S. Langer

Complex systems are characterised by a tight, nontrivial interplay of their constituents, which gives rise to a multi-scale spectrum of emergent properties. In this scenario, it is practically and conceptually difficult to identify those…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-19 Roi Holtzman , Marco Giulini , Raffaello Potestio

This work is devoted to examining qualitative properties of dynamic systems, in particular, limit cycles of stochastic differential equations with both rapid switching and small diffusion. The systems are featured by multi-scale…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2017-07-20 Dang H. Nguyen , Nguyen H. Du , George Yin

We perform microscopic simulations of the thermal relaxation of warm neutral plasmas of astrophysical importance. Using Molecular Dynamics we study the thermal relaxation of a hot neutral fluid of finite-size neutron-rich ions kept in a…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 David Barba-González , Conrado Albertus , M. Ángeles Pérez-García

We investigate the response of a system of hard spheres to two classes of perturbations over a range of densities spanning the fluid, crystalline, and glassy regimes within a molecular dynamics framework. Firstly, we consider the relaxation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-04 Matthew Kafker , Xerxes D. Arsiwalla

We propose an open-boundary molecular dynamics method in which an atomistic system is in contact with an infinite particle reservoir at constant temperature, volume and chemical potential. In practice, following the Hamiltonian adaptive…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-06-24 Maziar Heidari , Kurt Kremer , Ramin Golestanian , Raffaello Potestio , Robinson Cortes-Huerto

In studying the time evolution of isolated many-body quantum systems, a key focus is determining whether the system undergoes relaxation and reaches a steady state at a given point in time. Traditional approaches often rely on specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Jiaju Zhang , M. A. Rajabpour , Markus Heyl , Reyhaneh Khasseh

The description of activated relaxation of glassy systems in the multidimensional configurational space is a long-standing open problem. We develop a phenomenological description of the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a model with a rough…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2014-10-09 Chiara Cammarota , Enzo Marinari

In the classical stochastic resetting problem, a particle, moving according to some stochastic dynamics, undergoes random interruptions that bring it to a selected domain, and then, the process recommences. Hitherto, the resetting mechanism…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Carlos A. Plata , Deepak Gupta , Sandro Azaele

We investigate the behavior in $N$ of the $N$--particle entropy functional for Kac's stochastic model of Boltzmann dynamics, and its relation to the entropy function for solutions of Kac's one dimensional nonlinear model Boltzmann equation.…

Probability · Mathematics 2008-08-26 E. A. Carlen , M. C. Carvalho , J. Le Roux , M. Loss , C. Villani

The convergence to equilibrium of renormalized solutions to reaction-cross-diffusion systems in a bounded domain under no-flux boundary conditions is studied. The reactions model complex balanced chemical reaction networks coming from…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-08-20 Esther S. Daus , Bao Quoc Tang

We model the dynamics of a closed quantum system brought out of mechanical equilibrium, undergoing a non-driven, spontaneous, thermodynamic transformation. In particular, we consider a quantum particle in a box with a moving and insulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Sofia Sgroi , Mauro Paternostro

Many-body systems relaxing to equilibrium can exhibit complex dynamics even if their steady state is trivial. At low temperatures or high densities their evolution is often dominated by steric hindrances affecting particle motion [1,2,3].…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-05-10 M. M. Valado , C. Simonelli , M. D. Hoogerland , I. Lesanovsky , J. P. Garrahan , E. Arimondo , D. Ciampini , O. Morsch