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The development of future quantum devices requires understanding the dynamics of driven many-body systems, in which the Floquet-induced interactions play a central role. This understanding is crucial for coherently controlling quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-28 Xiao Wang

Classical thermodynamics is unrivalled in its range of applications and relevance to everyday life. It enables a description of complex systems, made up of microscopic particles, in terms of a small number of macroscopic quantities, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 James Millen , André Xuereb

Future quantum computers are anticipated to be able to perform simulations of quantum many-body systems and quantum field theories that lie beyond the capabilities of classical computation. This will lead to new insights and predictions for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2023-12-14 Martin J. Savage

Controlling and measuring the temperature in different devices and platforms that operate in the quantum regime is, without any doubt, essential for any potential application. In this review, we report the most recent theoretical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-04 Mohammad Mehboudi , Anna Sanpera , Luis A. Correa

Simulating the dynamics of non-equilibrium matter under extreme conditions lies beyond the capabilities of classical computation alone. Remarkable advances in quantum information science and technology are profoundly changing how we…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-04-01 Martin J. Savage

In these notes, we present a rigorous and self-contained introduction to the fundamental concepts and methods of quantum many-body theory. The text is designed to provide a solid theoretical foundation for the study of interacting quantum…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-02-24 Fabrizio Tafuri , Carmine Antonio Perroni , Giulio De Filippis

Quantum batteries are quantum mechanical systems with many degrees of freedom which can be used to store energy and that display fast charging. The physics behind fast charging is still unclear. Is this just due to the collective behavior…

The theory of quantum thermodynamics investigates how the concepts of heat, work, and temperature can be carried over to the quantum realm, where fluctuations and randomness are fundamentally unavoidable. Of particular practical relevance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-23 Patrick P. Potts

Universal quantum computers are potentially an ideal setting for simulating many-body quantum dynamics that is out of reach for classical digital computers. We use state-of-the-art IBM quantum computers to study paradigmatic examples of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Adam Smith , M. S. Kim , Frank Pollmann , Johannes Knolle

The standard approach to quantum engines is based on equilibrium systems and on thermodynamic transformations between Gibbs states. However, non-equilibrium quantum systems offer enhanced experimental flexibility in the control of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 Federico Carollo , Filippo M. Gambetta , Kay Brandner , Juan P. Garrahan , Igor Lesanovsky

In quantum statistical mechanics, closed many-body systems that do not exhibit thermalization after an arbitrarily long time in spite of the presence of interactions are called as many-body localized systems, and recently have been…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2018-12-14 Fumihiko Sugino , Pramod Padmanabhan

While the emergent field of quantum thermodynamics has the potential to impact energy science, the performance of thermal machines is often classical. We ask whether quantum effects can boost the performance of a thermal machine to reach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Juan Jaramillo , Mathieu Beau , Adolfo del Campo

We suggest that quantum computers can solve quantum many-body problems that are impracticable to solve on a classical computer.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen Wiesner

The theory of quantum thermodynamics investigates how the concepts of heat, work, and temperature can be carried over to the quantum realm, where fluctuations and randomness are fundamentally unavoidable. These lecture notes provide an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Patrick P. Potts

Over the past two decades quantum engineering has made significant advances in our ability to create genuine quantum many-body systems using ultracold atoms. In particular, some prototypical exactly solvable Yang-Baxter systems have been…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-10-25 Xi-Wen Guan , Peng He

In this thesis we present new results relevant to two important problems in quantum information science: the development of a theory of entanglement and the exploration of the use of controlled quantum systems to the simulation of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-10-21 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao

The aim of this book chapter is to indicate how quantum phenomena are affecting the operation of microscopic thermal machines, such as engines and refrigerators. As converting heat to work is one of the fundamental concerns in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Amikam Levy , David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky

Quantum gravity has become a fertile interface between gravitational physics and quantum many-body physics, with its double goal of identifying the microscopic constituents of the universe and their fundamental dynamics, and of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-10 Daniele Oriti

Major technological advances of the past century are rooted in our understanding of quantum physics in the non-interacting limit. A central challenge today is to understand the behavior of complex quantum many-body systems, where…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Pedram Roushan , Leigh S. Martin

Analyzing quantum many-body problems and elucidating the entangled structure of quantum states is a significant challenge common to a wide range of fields. Recently, a novel approach using machine learning was introduced to address this…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-11-15 Yusuke Nomura