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A large number of multifaceted quantum transport processes in molecular systems and physical nanosystems can be treated in terms of quantum relaxation processes which couple to one or several fluctuating environments. A thermal equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Igor Goychuk , Peter Hanggi

We investigate variational problems in quantum thermodynamics at positive temperature, in which admissible states are constrained by prescribed outcomes of a finite set of measurements. We solve a problem raised by the recent work [Liu,…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Emanuele Caputo , Augusto Gerolin , Nataliia Monina , Pavlo Pelikh , Lorenzo Portinale

A quantum thermodynamic system is described by a Hamiltonian and a list of conserved, non-commuting charges, and a fundamental goal is to determine the minimum energy of the system subject to constraints on the charges. Recently, [Liu et…

We present a holographic quantum simulation algorithm to variationally prepare thermal states of $d$-dimensional interacting quantum many-body systems, using only enough hardware qubits to represent a ($d$-1)-dimensional cross-section. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-17 Yuxuan Zhang , Shahin Jahanbani , Daoheng Niu , Reza Haghshenas , Andrew C. Potter

For quantum many-body systems in one dimension, computational complexity theory reveals that the evaluation of ground-state energy remains elusive on quantum computers, contrasting the existence of a classical algorithm for temperatures…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-11 Atsushi Iwaki , Chisa Hotta

Equation of state with quantum statistics corrections is derived for a multi-component gas of particles interacting through the repulsive and attractive van der Waals (vdW) forces up to first few orders over a small parameter $\delta…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2020-12-22 S. N. Fedotkin , A. G. Magner , U. V. Grygoriev

We analyze the microscopic evolution of a system undergoing a far-from-equilibrium thermodynamic process. Explicitly accounting for the degrees of freedom of participating heat reservoirs, we derive a hybrid result, similar in form to both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Jarzynski

Quantum cooling, a deterministic process that drives any state to the lowest eigenstate, has been widely used from studying ground state properties of chemistry and condensed matter quantum physics, to general optimization problems.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-06 Pei Zeng , Jinzhao Sun , Xiao Yuan

The resource-theoretic approach to quantum thermodynamics assumes complete knowledge of the thermal equilibrium against which thermodynamic resources are defined. In practice, however, this state is determined by the system Hamiltonian and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Munan Zhang , Kun Fang

Perturbation theory in quantum mechanics studies how quantum systems interact with their environmental perturbations. Harmonic perturbation is a rare special case of time-dependent perturbations in which exact analysis exists. Some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-01-01 Jie-Hong R. Jiang , Dah-Wei Chiou , Cheng-En Wu

We explore a non-variational quantum state preparation approach combined with the ADAPT operator selection strategy in the application of preparing the ground state of a desired target Hamiltonian. In this algorithm, energy gradient…

We consider the effect of a thermal bath on quantum correlations induced by the gravitational interaction in the weak field limit between two massive cat states, called gravitational cat (gravcat) states. The main goal of this paper is to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-31 Moises Rojas , Iarley P. Lobo

The thermodynamics of quantum systems driven out of equilibrium has attracted increasing attention in last the decade, in connection with quantum information and statistical physics, and with a focus on non-classical signatures. While a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Gonzalo Manzano , Roberta Zambrini

We study the quantum fluctuation theorem in the one-time measurement (OTM) scheme, where the work distribution of the backward process has been lacking and which is considered to be more informative than the two-time measurement (TTM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Kenji Maeda , Tharon Holdsworth , Sebastian Deffner , Akira Sone

Perturbation theory is an important technique for reducing computational cost and providing physical insights in simulating quantum systems with classical computers. Here, we provide a quantum algorithm to obtain perturbative energies on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Kosuke Mitarai , Kiichiro Toyoizumi , Wataru Mizukami

We consider quenches of a quantum system that is prepared in a canonical equilibrium state of one Hamiltonian and then evolves unitarily in time under a different Hamiltonian. Technically, our main result is a systematic expansion of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-14 Lennart Dabelow

Measurement-based quantum computation utilizes an initial entangled resource state and proceeds with subsequent single-qubit measurements. It is implicitly assumed that the interactions between qubits can be switched off so that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-08 Ying Li , Daniel E. Browne , Leong Chuan Kwek , Robert Raussendorf , Tzu-Chieh Wei

The thermalization of an isolated quantum system is described by quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, while these two subjects are still not fully consistent with each other. This leaves a less-explored region where both quantum and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-22 Yuqing Wang , Libo Liang , Qinpei Zheng , Qi Huang , Wenlan Chen , Jing Zhang , Xuzong Chen , Jiazhong Hu

Conservation of energy under thermal operations, \textbf{TO}, is ensured by commutation of the unitary generating such operations with the total Hamiltonian. However in realistic scenarios, perturbations or disturbances in the system are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-11 Debarupa Saha , Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Ujjwal Sen

Quantum fluctuations are fundamental in quantum technologies, affecting computing, sensing, cryptography, and thermodynamics. These include fluctuations in the variation of energy, charge, and other observables driven by interactions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-18 Thales Augusto Barbosa Pinto Silva , David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky