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The entanglement between the position and coin state of a $N$-dimensional quantum walker is shown to lead to a thermodynamic theory. The entropy, in this thermodynamics, is associated to the reduced density operator for the evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Alejandro Romanelli , Raul Donangelo , Renato Portugal , Franklin L. Marquezino

We formulate a geometric framework for quasistatic thermodynamics in open quantum systems by parameterizing the dynamics on a control manifold. In the quasistatic limit, the system follows a manifold of stationary states, and the work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Eric R. Bittner

We demonstrate a genuine quantum feature of heat: the power emitted by a qubit (quantum two-level system) into a reservoir under continuous driving shows peaks as a function of frequency $f$. These resonant features appear due to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-24 George Thomas , Jukka P. Pekola

Cavity optomechanical systems are a paradigmatic setting for the conversion of electromagnetic energy into mechanical work. Experiments with atoms coupled to cavity modes are realized in nonequilibrium conditions, described by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-03-05 Paulo J. Paulino , Igor Lesanovsky , Federico Carollo

We investigate the quantum thermodynamical properties of localised relativistic quantum fields, and how they can be used as quantum thermal machines. We study the efficiency and power of energy transfer between the classical gravitational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-28 David Edward Bruschi , Benjamin Morris , Ivette Fuentes

We consider a two-level atom interacting with a single mode of the electromagnetic field in a cavity within the Jaynes-Cummings model. Initially, the atom is thermal while the cavity is in a coherent state. The atom interacts with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-30 Hendrik Weimer , Günter Mahler

We derive a systematic approach to the thermodynamics of quantum systems based on the underlying symmetry groups. We show that the entropy of a system can be described in terms of group-theoretical quantities that are largely independent of…

It is possible to extract work from a quantum-mechanical system whose dynamics is governed by a time-dependent cyclic Hamiltonian. An energy bath is required to operate such a quantum engine in place of the heat bath used to run a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Bender , D. C. Brody , B. K. Meister

We present a protocol for the study of the dynamics and thermodynamics of quantum systems strongly coupled to a bath and subject to an external modulation. Our protocol quantifies the evolution of the system-bath composite by expanding the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-10-24 Wenjie Dou , Maicol A. Ochoa , Abraham Nitzan , Joseph E. Subotnik

We develop a thermodynamical theory to describe the behavior of the entanglement between a single two-level atom with a single mode of the electromagnetic field. The resonant Jaynes-Cummings model is used to study both the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-03 Alejandro Romanelli , Raul Donangelo , Andrés Vallejo

The thermodynamics of quantum systems coupled to periodically modulated heat baths and work reservoirs is developed. By identifying affinities and fluxes, the first and second law are formulated consistently. In the linear response regime,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kay Brandner , Udo Seifert

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a central field for understanding how energy conversion processes occur in microscopic systems. In these systems, effects such as coherence, entanglement, and non-Markovianity play key roles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca

Efficient optomechanical cooling typically requires high photon occupancy to maximize cooling power, a constraint that generally limits the degree of coherent quantum control available in the few-photon regime. Here, we investigate this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Surangana Sengupta , Björn Kubala , Joachim Ankerhold , Ciprian Padurariu

We discuss an approach to determine averages of the work, dissipated heat and variation of internal energy of an open quantum system driven by an external classical field. These quantities are measured by coupling the quantum system to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Paolo Solinas , Mirko Amico , Nino N. Zanghì

The physics of driven-dissipative transitions is currently a topic of great interest, particularly in quantum optical systems. These transitions occur in systems kept out of equilibrium and are therefore characterized by a finite entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Bruno O. Goes , Carlos E. Fiore , Gabriel T. Landi

We analyze here a nonclassical state produced by an atom-cavity field interaction. The two-level atom is passed through the single-mode electromagnetic cavity field. By deforming the field operators and introducing nonlinearity to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-14 Naveen Kumar , Deepak , Arpita Chatterjee

Cavity electrodynamics is emerging as a promising tool to control chemical processes and quantum material properties. In this work we develop a formalism to describe the cavity mediated energy exchange between a material and its…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-05 Francesca Fassioli , Jerome Faist , Martin Eckstein , Daniele Fausti

In this work, we analyse the thermodynamical behavior of massive and massless particles within Loop Quantum Gravity formalism. We investigate a modified dispersion relation which suffices to derive all our results of interest in an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-19 A. A. Araújo Filho

The singularities prevalent in classical thermodynamics largely stem from the "postulate of equal a priori probabilities" neglecting the physical constraints imposed by computational complexity. This paper introduces Complexity Window…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-11-24 HongZheng Liu , YiNuo Tian , Zhiyue Wu

We study an ultracold gas of neutral atoms subject to the periodic optical potential generated by a high-$Q$ cavity mode. In the limit of very low temperatures, cavity field and atomic dynamics require a quantum description. Starting from a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-15 Christoph Maschler , Igor B. Mekhov , Helmut Ritsch