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The unavoidable interaction between a quantum system and the external noisy environment can be mimicked by a sequence of stochastic measurements whose outcomes are neglected. Here we investigate how this stochasticity is reflected in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-30 Matthias M. Müller , Stefano Gherardini , Augusto Smerzi , Filippo Caruso

It is known that temperature estimates of macroscopic systems in equilibrium are most precise when their energy fluctuations are large. However, for nanoscale systems deviations from standard thermodynamics arise due to their interactions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-14 Harry J. D. Miller , Janet Anders

This paper develops a mathematical and computational framework for analyzing the expected performance of Bayesian data fusion, or joint statistical inference, within a sensor network. We use variational techniques to obtain the posterior…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-02-23 Gaurav Thakur

We present an experimental investigation of the statistical properties of spherical granular particles on an inclined plane that are excited by an oscillating side-wall. The data is obtained by high-speed imaging and particle tracking…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Daniel L. Blair , A. Kudrolli

Quantum thermometry exploits the high level of control in coherent devices to offer enhanced precision for temperature estimation. This highlights the need for constructing concrete estimation strategies. Of particular importance is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Gabriel O. Alves , Gabriel T. Landi

We consider the distribution of waiting times between non-interacting fermions on a tight-binding chain. We calculate the waiting time distribution for a quantum point contact and find a cross-over from Wigner-Dyson statistics at full…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-17 Konrad H. Thomas , Christian Flindt

Stochastic differential equations have proved to be a valuable governing framework for many real-world systems which exhibit ``noise'' or randomness in their evolution. One quality of interest in such systems is the shape of their…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2025-02-04 David Sabin-Miller , Daniel M. Abrams

This paper aims at reproducing quantum mechanical (QM) spin and spin entanglement results using a realist, stochastic, and local approach, without the standard QM mathematical formulation. The concrete model proposed includes the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-29 Antonio Sciarretta

This work is concerned with thermal quantum states of Hamiltonians on spin and fermionic lattice systems with short range interactions. We provide results leading to a local definition of temperature, thereby extending the notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-04 M. Kliesch , C. Gogolin , M. J. Kastoryano , A. Riera , J. Eisert

A paradigm shift in quantum thermometry is proposed. To date, thermometry has relied on local estimation, which is useful to reduce statistical fluctuations once the temperature is very well known. In order to estimate temperatures in cases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-04 Jesús Rubio , Janet Anders , Luis A. Correa

Large ensembles of points with Coulomb interactions arise in various settings of condensed matter physics, classical and quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, random matrices and even approximation theory, and give rise to a variety of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-27 Sylvia Serfaty

Operational quantum stochastic thermodynamics is a recently proposed theory to study the thermodynamics of open systems based on the rigorous notion of a quantum stochastic process or quantum causal model. In there, a stochastic trajectory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Philipp Strasberg

The dynamics of quantum entanglement plays a central role in explaining the emergence of thermal equilibrium in isolated many-body systems. However, entanglement is notoriously hard to measure. Recent works have introduced a notion of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-20 Xiaozhou Feng , Matteo Ippoliti

In static classical statistical systems the problem of information transport from a boundary to the bulk finds a simple description in terms of wave functions or density matrices. While the transfer matrix formalism is a type of Heisenberg…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 C. Wetterich

It is believed that thermalization in closed systems of interacting particles can occur only when the eigenstates are fully delocalized and chaotic in the preferential (unperturbed) basis of the total Hamiltonian. Here we demonstrate that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Fausto Borgonovi , Felix M. Izrailev

The new scheme employed (throughout the thermodynamic phase space), in the statistical thermodynamic investigation of classical systems, is extended to quantum systems. Quantum Nearest Neighbor Probability Density Functions are formulated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-25 U. F. Edgal , D. L. Huber

A pivotal task in quantum metrology, and quantum parameter estimation in general, is to de- sign schemes that achieve the highest precision with given resources. Standard models of quantum metrology usually assume the dynamics is fixed, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-18 Jing Liu , Haidong Yuan

Modeling is a challenging topic and using parametric models is an important stage to reach flexible function for modeling. Weibull distribution has two parameters which are shape $\alpha$ and scale $\beta$. In this study, bimodality…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-12-03 Roberto Vila , Mehmet Niyazi Çankaya

Within path sampling framework, we show that probability distribution divergences, such as the Chernoff information, can be estimated via thermodynamic integration. The Boltzmann-Gibbs distribution pertaining to different Hamiltonians is…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-10-18 Silia Vitoratou , Ioannis Ntzoufras

In this work we describe a simple and efficient scheme for inference of photon number distribution by adding variable thermal noise to the signal. The inference remains feasible even if the scheme parameters are subject to random dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 D. Mogilevtsev , V. S. Shchesnovich , N. Korolkova