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We discuss our recent study of local quantum mechanical uncertainty relations in quantum many body systems. These lead to fundamental bounds for quantities such as the speed, acceleration, relaxation times, spatial gradients and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-02 Saurish Chakrabarty , Zohar Nussinov

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) represent a benchmark result in nonequilibrium physics that allows to place fundamental lower bounds on the noise-to-signal ratio (precision) of currents in nanoscale devices. Originally formulated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-24 Andre M. Timpanaro , Giacomo Guarnieri , Gabriel T. Landi

We derive a variational expression for the correlation time of physical observables in steady-state diffusive systems. As a consequence of this variational expression, we obtain lower bounds on the correlation time, which provide speed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-24 Andreas Dechant , Jerome Garnier-Brun , Shin-ichi Sasa

For a generic class of machines with broken time-reversal symmetry we show that in the linear response regime the relative fluctuation of the sum of output currents for time-forward and time-reversed processes is always lower bounded by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-12 Sushant Saryal , Sandipan Mohanta , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

Quantum thermodynamic uncertainty relations establish fundamental trade-offs between the precision achievable in quantum systems and associated thermodynamic quantities such as entropy production or dynamical activity. While foundational,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Nobumasa Ishida , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We study the speed of fluctuation of a quantum system around its thermodynamic equilibrium state, and show that the speed will be extremely small for almost all times in typical thermodynamic cases. The setting considered here is that of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Noah Linden , Sandu Popescu , Anthony J Short , Andreas Winter

The exploration of far-from-equilibrium systems has been at the forefront of nonequilibrium thermodynamics, with a particular focus on understanding the fluctuations and response of thermodynamic systems to external perturbations. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-13 Kangqiao Liu , Jie Gu

We investigate the thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) in steady-state transport for a multi-terminal system consisting of two conducting terminals and N-2 probe terminals, within the linear response regime under broken time-reversal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-07 Yanchao Zhang , Xinzhi Liu , Xiaolong Lü , Shanhe Su

In the real world, one almost never knows the parameters of a thermodynamic process to infinite precision. Reflecting this, here we investigate how to extend stochastic thermodynamics to systems with uncertain parameters, including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-17 Jan Korbel , David H. Wolpert

The thermodynamic behavior of Markovian open quantum systems can be described at the level of fluctuations by using continuous monitoring approaches. However, practical applications require assessing imperfect detection schemes, where the…

We review the trade-offs between speed, fluctuations, and thermodynamic cost involved with biological processes in nonequilibrium states, and discuss how optimal these processes are in light of the universal bound set by the thermodynamic…

Biological Physics · Physics 2022-02-28 Yonghyun Song , Changbong Hyeon

Measurements of any property of a microscopic system are bound to show significant deviations from the average, due to thermal fluctuations. For time-integrated currents such as heat, work or entropy production in a steady state, it is in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-22 Sreekanth K Manikandan , Biswajit Das , Raunak Dey , Avijit Kundu , Ayan Banerjee , Supriya Krishnamurthy

We use the quantum Brownian model to derive the uncertainty relation for a quantum open system in an arbitrarily-squeezed initial state interacting with an environment at finite temperature. We examine the relative importance of the quantum…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-06-05 B. L. Hu , Yuhong Zhang

Understanding the physics of nonequilibrium systems remains as one of the major challenges of theoretical physics. This problem can be cracked in part by investigating the macroscopic fluctuations of the currents characterizing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-03-18 Pablo I. Hurtado , Carlos P. Espigares , Jesus J. del Pozo , Pedro L. Garrido

Temperature uncertainty of a quantum system in canonical ensemble is inversely determined by its energy fluctuation, which is known as the temperature-energy uncertainty relation. No such uncertainty relation was discovered for a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Ning Zhang , Si-Yuan Bai , Chong Chen

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) impose a universal trade-off between current precision and entropy production in autonomous steady states, constraining in particular the power, efficiency, and constancy of heat engines. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-23 Enrique P. Cital , Viktor Holubec

We introduce ``local uncertainty relations'' in thermal many-body systems, from which fundamental bounds in quantum systems can be derived. These lead to universal non-relativistic speed limits (independent of interaction range) and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-17 Saurish Chakrabarty , Zohar Nussinov

We consider a periodic quantum clock based on cooperative resonance fluorescence at zero temperature. In the quantum case, this system has an exact steady state and the limit cycle appears in conditional quantum dynamics under homodyne…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Varinder Singh , Euijoon Kwon , G J Milburn

We prove a lower bound on the relative entropy between two finite-dimensional states in terms of their entropy difference and the dimension of the underlying space. The inequality is tight in the sense that equality can be attained for any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-16 David Reeb , Michael M. Wolf

We discuss exchange scenario's thermodynamic uncertainty relations for the work done on a two-qubit entangled nonequilibrium steady state obtained by coupling the two qubits and putting each of them in weak contact with a thermal bath. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Donato Farina , Bilal Benazout , Federico Centrone , Antonio Acin