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Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Álvaro Gómez-León , Tomás Ramos , Alejandro González-Tudela , Diego Porras

We study particle current and occupation distribution in a recently proposed model for coherent quantum transport. In this model a system connected to mesoscopic Fermi reservoirs (mesoreservoir) is driven out of equilibrium by the action of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-04-26 Shigeru Ajisaka , Felipe Barra

We study the transport properties of a quantum dot contacted to two superconducting reservoirs by means of the Keldysh field theory approach, showing how this technique allows us to straightforwardly recover previous results, resulting…

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We introduce and study a class of models of free fermions hopping between neighbouring sites with random Brownian amplitudes. These simple models describe stochastic, diffusive, quantum, unitary dynamics. We focus on periodic boundary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-04-17 M. Bauer , D. Bernard , T. Jin

Measurement-induced phase transitions have largely been explored for projective or continuous measurements of Hermitian observables, assuming perfect detection without information loss. Yet such transitions also arise in more general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Felix Kloiber-Tollinger , Lukas M. Sieberer

We introduce a non-equilibrium version of the Caldeira-Leggett model in which a quantum particle is strongly coupled to a set of engineered reservoirs. The reservoirs are composed by collections of squeezed and displaced thermal modes, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Vasco Cavina , Massimiliano Esposito

We consider a finite quantum system under slow driving and weakly coupled to thermal reservoirs at different temperatures. We present a systematic derivation of the quantum master equation for the density matrix and the out-of-time-order…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Bibek Bhandari , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei , Liliana Arrachea

A formalism for quantum many-body systems is proposed through a semiclassical treatment in phase space, allowing us to establish a stochastic thermodynamics incorporating quantum statistics. Specifically, we utilize a stochastic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-12-23 Zhaoyu Fei

The nonlinear conductance of semiconductor heterostructures and single molecule devices exhibiting Kondo physics has recently attracted attention. We address the observed sample dependence of the measured steady state transport coefficients…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-01-14 Enrique Muñoz , C. J. Bolech , Stefan Kirchner

We study the matter and entropy transport between two ultra-cold neutral Fermi-gas reservoirs linked by a quantum point contact under a chemical-potential gradient. We describe the two leads with a BCS mean-field model and derive the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-04 Davide Bertolusso , C. J. Bolech , Thierry Giamarchi

We introduce a numerical method to sample the distributions of charge, heat, and entropy production in open quantum systems coupled strongly to macroscopic reservoirs, with both temporal and energy resolution and beyond the linear-response…

We apply the Nakajima-Zwanzig approach to open quantum systems to study steady-state transport across generic multi-level junctions coupled to bosonic or fermionic reservoirs. The method allows for a unified diagrammatic formulation in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-18 L. Magazzù , E. Paladino , M. Grifoni

We study non-interacting fermionic systems undergoing continuous monitoring and driven by biased reservoirs. Averaging over the measurement outcomes, we derive exact formulas for the particle and heat flows in the system. We show that these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 João Ferreira , Tony Jin , Jochen Mannhart , Thierry Giamarchi , Michele Filippone

Quantum entanglement phase transitions have provided new insights to quantum many-body dynamics. Both disorders and measurements are found to induce similar entanglement transitions. Here, we provide a theoretical framework that unifies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-14 Qinghong Yang , Yi Zuo , Dong E. Liu

We present the stochastic thermodynamics analysis of an open quantum system weakly coupled to multiple reservoirs and driven by a rapidly oscillating external field. The analysis is built on a modified stochastic master equation in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-12 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Andreas Engel , Massimiliano Esposito

The late-time dynamics of quantum many-body systems is organized in distinct dynamical universality classes, characterized by their conservation laws and thus by their emergent hydrodynamic transport. Here, we study transport in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-30 Philip Zechmann , Alvise Bastianello , Michael Knap

We study quantum transport in disordered systems with particle-hole symmetric Hamiltonians. The particle-hole symmetry is spontaneously broken after averaging with respect to disorder, and the resulting massless mode is treated in a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-09 Ipsita Mandal , Klaus Ziegler

We present a methodology to simulate the quantum thermodynamics of thermal machines which are built from an interacting working medium in contact with fermionic reservoirs at fixed temperature and chemical potential. Our method works at…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-08-21 Marlon Brenes , Juan José Mendoza-Arenas , Archak Purkayastha , Mark T. Mitchison , Stephen R. Clark , John Goold

In this review article, we present a non-equilibrium quantum transport theory for transient electron dynamics in nanodevices based on exact master equation derived with the path integral method in the fermion coherent-state representation.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-15 Pei-Yun Yang , Wei-Min Zhang