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Thermalization of a system in the presence of a heat bath has been the subject of many theoretical investigations especially in the framework of solid-state physics. In this setting, the presence of a large bandwidth for the frequency…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-09 Roberto Onofrio , Bala Sundaram

The last decade has witnessed the remarkable progress in our understanding of thermalization in isolated quantum systems. Combining the eigenstate thermalization hypothesis with quantum measurement theory, we extend the framework of quantum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-31 Yuto Ashida , Keiji Saito , Masahito Ueda

We investigate the operation of a qubit as a quantum thermal device within the repeated interaction framework, allowing for strong system-bath coupling and finite interaction times. We analyze two minimal models: an alternating-coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Gabrielle Barsky-Giles , Alessandro Prositto , Matthew Gerry , Dvira Segal

Within quantum field theory on a global monopole spacetime, we study thermal effects on a naked singularity and its relation with boundary conditions. We first obtain the two-points functions for the ground state and for thermal states of a…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-08-30 Lissa de Souza Campos , João Paulo M. Pitelli

The thermodynamic behaviours of multi-horizon black holes such as a Schwarzschild-de Sitter black hole have been one of the long-standing mysteries in gravitational physics since they involve quantum natures in gravitational systems and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-25 Ratchaphat Nakarachinda , Lunchakorn Tannukij , Pitayuth Wongjun , Tanapat Deesuwan

We investigate a two-level Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a massless scalar field or its proper time derivative in $(1+1)$-dimensional Minkowski spacetime, in a quantum state whose correlation structure across the Rindler horizon mimics…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-08-11 Jorma Louko

How long does a uniformly accelerated observer need to interact with a quantum field in order to record thermality in the Unruh temperature? We address this question for a pointlike Unruh-DeWitt detector, coupled linearly to a real…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-20 Christopher J. Fewster , Benito A. Juárez-Aubry , Jorma Louko

In this article, we study the quantum field theoretic generalization of the Caldeira-Leggett model in general curved space-time considering interactions between two scalar fields in a classical gravitational background. The thermalization…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-10-18 Subhashish Banerjee , Sayantan Choudhury , Satyaki Chowdhury , Johannes Knaute , Sudhakar Panda , K. Shirish

We study a spherical black hole surrounded by a hot self-gravitating thin shell in the canonical ensemble, i.e., a black hole and a hot shell inside a heat reservoir acting as a boundary with its area and temperature fixed. To work out the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-11-07 José P. S. Lemos , O. B. Zaslavskii

We investigate thermal activation of thin-shells around anti-de Sitter black holes. Under the thin-shell approximation, we extensively study the parameter region that allows a bubble nucleation bounded by a thin-shell out of a thermal bath.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-09-29 Pisin Chen , Guillem Domènech , Misao Sasaki , Dong-han Yeom

We design a quantum thermal device that can simultaneously and dynamically cool multiple target qubits. Using a setup with three bosonic heat baths, we propose an engineering of interaction Hamiltonian using operators on different subspaces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jithin G. Krishnan , Chandrima B. Pushpan , Amit Kumar Pal

Unruh-DeWitt particle detector models are studied in a variety of time-dependent and time-independent settings. We work within the framework of first-order perturbation theory and couple the detector to a massless scalar field. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-10-16 Lee Hodgkinson

We investigate the dephasing dynamics of a qubit as an effective mechanism for estimating the temperature of its surrounding environment for different symmetrizes. Our approach is fundamentally quantum, leveraging the qubit's susceptibility…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Anass Hminat , Abdallah Slaoui , Rachid Ahl Laamara , Mourad Telmini

We investigate the dynamics of a qubit chain locally coupled to a thermal reservoir, modeled through repeated collisions with particles drawn from a heat bath. Under suitable conditions, the resulting Lindblad equation is thermodynamically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jorge Tabanera-Bravo , Massimiliano Esposito , Felipe Barra , Juan M. R. Parrondo

We study the thermodynamics of an uncharged, non-rotating BTZ black hole. In addition to the thermal properties, we are interested in the phase transition between two locally thermodynamic stable phases which may arise from different areas…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2022-04-22 Sean Knight , Navjot Gadda

We investigate the thermodynamic behavior of open quantum systems through the Hamiltonian of Mean Force, focusing on two models: a two-qubit system interacting with a thermal bath and a Jaynes-Cummings Model without the rotating wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Neha Pathania , Devvrat Tiwari , Subhashish Banerjee

Probes that measure the local thermal properties of systems out of equilibrium are emerging as new tools in the study of nanoscale systems. One can then measure the temperature of a probe that is weakly coupled to a bias-driven system. By…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-05-13 LvZhou Ye , Dong Hou , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan , Massimiliano Di Ventra

One of the major open problems in theoretical physics is a consistent quantum gravity theory.Recent developments in thermodynamic phase transitions ofblack holes and their van der Waals-like behavior may provide an interesting quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-06-26 Seyed Hossein Hendi , Shahram Panahiyan , Behzad Eslam Panah , Mubasher Jamil

We study the thermodynamics of a non-singular black hole model with effective quantum corrections motivated by Loop Quantum Gravity (LQG). The effective geometry has a transition surface that connects trapped and anti-trapped regions with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 F. G. Menezes , H. A. Borges , I. P. R. Baranov , S. Carneiro

Ongoing experimental activity aims at calorimetric measurements of thermodynamic indicators of quantum integrated systems. We study a model of a driven qubit in contact with a finite-size thermal electron reservoir. The temperature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Brecht Donvil , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Jukka P. Pekola
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