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We study the modification by the presence of a plane wall of energy level shifts of two-level atoms which are in multipolar coupling with quantized electromagnetic fields in a thermal bath in a formalism which separates the contributions of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-27 Zhiying Zhu , Hongwei Yu

We will study a class of system composed of interacting unicyclic machines placed in contact with a hot and cold thermal baths subjected to a non-conservative driving worksource. Despite their simplicity, these models showcase an intricate…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-19 Iago N. Mamede , Karel Proesmans , Carlos E. Fiore

We study properties of effective temperature of non-equilibrium steady states by using the anti-de Sitter spacetime/conformal field theory (AdS/CFT) correspondence. We consider non-equilibrium systems with a constant flow of current along…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-03-04 Hironori Hoshino , Shin Nakamura

Thermodynamic transport phenomena in the system consisting of many hard-disks confined in a circular tube with a temperature difference are discussed. Here, temperatures on parts of the walls of the tube are imposed by stochastic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-05 Tooru Taniguchi , Colin Bain McRae , Shin-ichi Sawada

The behavior of the self diffusion constant of Langevin particles interacting via a pairwise interaction is considered. The diffusion constant is calculated approximately within a perturbation theory in the potential strength about the bare…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 D. S. Dean , A. Lefèvre

A trade-off between the precision of an arbitrary current and the dissipation, known as the thermodynamic uncertainty relation, has been investigated for various Markovian systems. Here, we study the thermodynamic uncertainty relation for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-23 Tan Van Vu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Heath-bath effects in the dynamics of atom + cavity system are studied. The temperature effects are explored using thermofield dynamics formalism. It is found that the dynamics of the system is sensitive to small changes in the temperature…

We consider a harmonic oscillator under periodic driving and coupled to two harmonic-oscillator heat baths at different temperatures. We use the thermofield transformation with chain mapping for this setup, which allows us to study the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-19 Tianqi Chen , Dario Poletti

We investigate the dynamics of a massive tracer particle coupled to an interacting active bath, modeled as a harmonic chain of overdamped active particles analytically, with an aim to understand the impact of bath interactions and activity…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-09-03 Ritwick Sarkar , Ion Santra

A theory for the nonlinear energy response of a system subjected to a heat bath is developed when the temperature of the heat bath is modulated sinusoidally. The theory is applied to a model glass forming system, where the landscape is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fumitaka Tagawa , Takashi Odagaki

We demonstrate the possibility to rectify the nanoscale radiative heat flux between two nanoparticles by coupling them with the nonreciprocal surface modes of a magneto-optical substrate in a Voigt configuration. When the non-reciprocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-30 Annika Ott , Riccardo Messina , Philippe Ben-Abdallah , Svend-Age Biehs

The evaluation of the specific heat of an open, damped quantum system is a subtle issue. One possible route is based on the thermodynamic partition function which is the ratio of the partition functions of system plus bath and of the bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-06-10 Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Peter Hänggi , Peter Talkner

The performance characteristics of a heat rectifier and a heat pump are studied in a non Markovian framework. The device is constructed from a molecule connected to a hot and cold reservoir. The heat baths are modelled using the stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Gil Katz , Ronnie Kosloff

In this article we consider two different heat conducting fluids each modelled by the incompressible Navier-Stokes-Fourier system separated by a non-linear elastic Koiter shell. The motion of the shell changes the domain of definition of…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Sourav Mitra , Sebastian Schwarzacher

We derive and employ a semi-classical Langevin equation obtained from path-integrals to describe the ionic dynamics of a molecular junction in the presence of electrical current. The electronic environment serves as an effective…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-07-03 Jing Tao Lü , Mads Brandbyge , Per Hedegård , Tchavdar N. Todorov , Daniel Dundas

Sympathetic cooling is the process of energy exchange between a system and a colder bath. We investigate this fundamental process in an atom-ion experiment where the system is composed of a single ion, trapped in a radio-frequency Paul…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Ziv Meir , Meirav Pinkas , Tomas Sikorsky , Ruti Ben-shlomi , Nitzan Akerman , Roee Ozeri

In this paper, we investigate the thermodynamic properties of a set of neutral Dirac particles in the presence of an electromagnetic field in contact with a heat bath for the relativistic and non-relativistic cases. In order to perform the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-02 R. R. S. Oliveira , A. A. Araújo Filho

The macroscopic control of ubiquitous heat flow remains poorly explored due to the lack of a fundamental theoretical method. Here, by establishing temperature-dependent transformation thermotics for treating materials whose conductivity…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-11-09 Ying Li , Xiangying Shen , Zuhui Wu , Junying Huang , Yixuan Chen , Yushan Ni , Jiping Huang

We study thermalization and non-equilibrium dynamics in a dissipative quantum many-body system -- a chain of ions with two points of the chain driven by thermal bath under different temperature. Instead of a simple linear temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-01 G. -D. Lin , L. -M. Duan

We consider a chain of one-dimensional dipole moments connected to two thermal baths with different temperatures. The system is in nonequilibrium steady state and heat flows through it. Assuming that fluctuation of the dipole moment is a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 Anton V. Dolgikh , Daniel S. Kosov