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The compressibility limit of a cold gas confined in a magneto-optical trap due to multiple scattering of light is a long-standing problem. This scattering mechanism induces long-range interactions in the system, which is responsible for the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-06-16 H. Terças , J. T. Mendonça

Constructing a thermodynamic framework for nonequilibrium systems remains a major challenge, as quantities such as temperature and free energy often become ambiguous when inferred solely from steady-state properties. Here we take a…

The fluctuations of macroscopic observables in quantum systems which are in a nonequilibrium steady state are studied rigorously in the thermodynamic limit. In particular, the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) of a quantum spin system that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Walid K. Abou Salem

We study thermodynamic operations which bring a nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) to another NESS in physical systems under nonequilibrium conditions. We model the system by a suitable Markov jump process, and treat thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-02 Teruhisa S. Komatsu , Naoko Nakagawa , Shin-ichi Sasa , Hal Tasaki

The existence and uniqueness of a steady state for nonequilibrium systems (NESS) is a fundamental subject and a main theme of research in statistical mechanics for decades. For Gaussian systems, such as a chain of harmonic oscillators…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-13 J. -T. Hsiang , B. L. Hu

We present an experimental, numerical, and analytical study of strontium magneto-optical trap (MOT) loading from a cold atomic beam in a configuration optimized for high numerical aperture optical tweezers. Our approach orients the beam…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-02-06 M. Gaudesius , J. M. Lee , L. A. Kraft , J. C. Gordon , G. W. Biedermann

We consider Lindblad dynamics of quantum spin systems on infinite lattices and define a nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) and a time-averaged nonequilibrium steady state (TANESS) on the basis of $C^*$-algebraic formalism. Generically, the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-08-12 Kenji Shimomura , Nagisa Hara , Seiichiro Kusuoka

We characterize the properties of a new form of magneto-optical trap (MOT) that relies on non-equilibrium population dynamics associated with narrow-linewidth optical transitions. We demonstrate this mechanism using the 7.5 kHz linewidth…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-06-05 Juan A. Muniz , Matthew A. Norcia , Julia R. K. Cline , James K. Thompson

The physics of critical phenomena in a many-body system far from thermal equilibrium is an interesting and important issue to be addressed both experimentally and theoretically. The trapped cold atoms have been actively used as a clean and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Geol Moon , Myoung-Sun Heo , Yonghee Kim , Heung-Ryoul Noh , Wonho Jhe

We present a theoretical model describing recently observed collective effects in large magneto-optically trapped atomic ensembles. Based on a kinetic description we develop an efficient test particle method, which in addition to the single…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 T. Pohl , G. Labeyrie , R. Kaiser

We consider the dynamics of a system of free fermions on a 1D lattice in the presence of a defect moving at constant velocity. The defect has the form of a localized time-dependent variation of the chemical potential and induces at long…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-02-13 Alvise Bastianello , Andrea De Luca

We investigate the structure of non-equilibrium steady states (NESS) for a class of exactly solvable models in the setting of a chain with left and right reservoirs. Inspired by recent results on the harmonic model, we focus on models in…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Frank Redig , Berend van Tol

Non-equilibrium thermodynamics provides a general framework for understanding non-equilibrium processes, particularly in small systems that are typically far from equilibrium and dominated by fluctuations. However, the experimental…

Optics · Physics 2023-09-08 Yu Zheng , Lyu-Hang Liu , Xiang-Dong Chen , Guang-Can Guo , Fang-Wen Sun

Highly compressed nuclear matter created in relativistic heavy collisions is to large extent governed by local non-equilibrium. As an idealized scenario colliding nuclear matter configurations are studied within both, relativistic mean…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-07 C. Fuchs , T. Gaitanos

We address the question of how a non-equilibrium steady state (NESS) is reached in the Linbdladian dynamics of an open quantum system. We develop an expansion of the density matrix in terms of the NESS-excitations, each of which has its own…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-19 M. V. Medvedyeva , S. Kehrein

Consider a small sample coupled to a finite number of leads, and assume that the total (continuous) system is at thermal equilibrium in the remote past. We construct a non-equilibrium steady state (NESS) by adiabatically turning on an…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-04-10 Horia D. Cornean , Pierre Duclos , Radu Purice

We consider a stochastic energy exchange model that models the 1D microscopic heat conduction in the nonequilibrium setting. In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS) and, furthermore,…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-06-07 Yao Li

This paper is about nonequilibrium steady states (NESS) of a class of stochastic models in which particles exchange energy with their "local environments" rather than directly with one another. The physical domain of the system can be a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-03-25 Yao Li , Peter Nandori , Lai-Sang Young

Self-trapping is a hallmark phenomenon of nonlinear dynamics. It has significant applications in modern physics, including band structure engineering, phase transition dynamics, quantum metrology, and more. Dilute-gas Bose-Einstein…

We demonstrate a Magneto-Optical Trap (MOT) configuration which employs optical forces due to light scattering between electronically excited states of the atom. With the standard MOT laser beams propagating along the {\it x}- and {\it y}-…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-12-05 Saijun Wu , Thomas Plisson , Roger Brown , William D. Phillips , J. V. Porto