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The relaxation to equilibrium of lattice systems with long-range interactions is investigated. The timescales involved depend polynomially on the system size, potentially leading to diverging equilibration times. A kinetic equation for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-23 T. M. Rocha Filho , R. Bachelard

We show that the dynamics of generic quantum systems concentrate around their equilibrium value when measuring at arbitrary times. This means that the probability of finding them away from equilibrium is exponentially suppressed, with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-03 Jonathon Riddell , Nathan Pagliaroli , Álvaro M. Alhambra

The presence of algebraically decaying long-range interactions may alter the critical as well as topological behaviour of a quantum many-body systems. However, when the interaction decays at a faster rate, the short-range behaviour is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-05 Somnath Maity , Utso Bhattacharya , Amit Dutta

Relaxation towards equilibrium is often assumed to be slower when a system starts farther from equilibrium, but this intuition fails in the Mpemba effect. Recent advances in controllable quantum platforms have enabled the exploration of its…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Shion Yamashika , Ryusuke Hamazaki

Equilibration plays a fundamental role in our understanding of statistical mechanics and the long-time dynamics of many-body systems. In quantum systems, the route to equilibration is intimately related to level repulsion and quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 V. M. Bastidas , H. L. Nourse , A. Sakurai , A. Hayashi , S. Nishio , Kae Nemoto , W. J. Munro

The characterization of quantum critical phenomena is pivotal for the understanding and harnessing of quantum many-body physics. However, their complexity makes the inference of such fundamental processes difficult. Thus, efficient and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Ricardo Puebla , Alessio Belenchia , Giulio Gasbarri , Eric Lutz , Mauro Paternostro

Most experimental protocols for measuring scrambling require time evolution with a Hamiltonian and with the Hamiltonian's negative counterpart (backwards time evolution). Engineering controllable quantum many-body systems for which such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-20 Brian Swingle , Nicole Yunger Halpern

The concept of quantum revivals is extended to many-body systems and the implications of traversing a quantum phase transition are explored. By analyzing two different models, the vibron model for the bending of polyatomic molecules and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Francisco de los Santos , Elvira Romera

Many-body localization has become an important phenomenon for illuminating a potential rift between non-equilibrium quantum systems and statistical mechanics. However, the nature of the transition between ergodic and localized phases in…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-06-04 Johnnie Gray , Sougato Bose , Abolfazl Bayat

We review methods that allow one to detect and characterise quantum correlations in many-body systems, with a special focus on approaches which are scalable. Namely, those applicable to systems with many degrees of freedom, without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Irénée Frérot , Matteo Fadel , Maciej Lewenstein

Quantum many body system in equilibrium can be effectively characterized using the framework of quantum statistical mechanics. However, nonequilibrium behaviour of quantum many body systems remains elusive, out of the range of such a well…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-14 Bing Chen , Xianfei Hou , Feifei Zhou , Peng Qian , Heng Shen , Nanyang Xu

The evolution of a many-particle system on a one-dimensional lattice, subjected to a quantum walk can cause spatial entanglement in the lattice position, which can be exploited for quantum information/communication purposes. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-05-21 Sandeep K. Goyal , C. M. Chandrashekar

The minimum time required for a quantum system to evolve to a distinguishable state is set by the quantum speed limit, and consequently influences the change of quantum correlations and other physical properties. Here we study the time…

Open quantum systems with nearly degenerate energy levels have been shown to exhibit long-lived metastable states in the approach to equilibrium, even when modelled with certain Lindblad-form quantum master equations. This is a result of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-16 Matthew Gerry , Michael J. Kewming , Dvira Segal

We present the complete phase diagram for one-dimensional binary mixtures of bosonic ultracold atomic gases in a harmonic trap. We obtain exact results with direct numerical diagonalization for small number of atoms, which permits us to…

Global quantum quench with a finite quench rate which crosses critical points is known to lead to universal scaling of correlation functions as functions of the quench rate. In this work, we explore scaling properties of the entanglement…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Pawel Caputa , Sumit R. Das , Masahiro Nozaki , Akio Tomiya

We study how self gravitation of quantum systems affects the quantum coherence present in their state. Spatial superpositions of static, large, heavy systems tend to rapidly lose coherence, whereas light or massless particles are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-15 David Edward Bruschi , Frank K. Wilhelm

Using the supersymmetry technique, we analytically derive the recent result of Casati, Maspero and Shepelyansky [cond-mat/9706103] according to which the quantum dynamics of open chaotic systems follows the classical decay up to a new…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Klaus M. Frahm

The fine grained energy spectrum of quantum chaotic systems is widely believed to be described by random matrix statistics. A basic scale in such a system is the energy range over which this behavior persists. We define the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-02-11 Hrant Gharibyan , Masanori Hanada , Stephen H. Shenker , Masaki Tezuka

Recent years have seen significant advances, both theoretical and experimental, in our understanding of quantum many-body dynamics. Given this problem's high complexity, it is surprising that a substantial amount of this progress can be…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-21 Bruno Bertini , Pieter W. Claeys , Tomaž Prosen