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We develop a framework based on the Kirkwood-Dirac quasiprobability distribution to quantify the contribution of coherence to work extraction during generic, cyclic quantum evolutions. In particular, we focus on ``anomalous processes'',…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Francesco Perciavalle , Nicola Lo Gullo , Francesco Plastina

We study the statistics of the work done, the fluctuation relations and the irreversible entropy production in a quantum many-body system subject to the sudden quench of a control parameter. By treating the quench as a thermodynamic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-07-24 Ross Dorner , John Goold , Cecilia Cormick , Mauro Paternostro , Vlatko Vedral

We study the emission of quasi-particles in the scaling limit of the 1d Quantum Ising chain at the critical point perturbed by a time dependent local transverse field. We compute \it exactly \rm and for a \it generic \rm time dependence the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-07-24 Pietro Smacchia , Alessandro Silva

The non-equilibrium response of a quantum many-body system defines its fundamental transport properties and how initially localized quantum information spreads. However, for long-range-interacting quantum systems little is known. We address…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-11-15 Philipp Hauke , Luca Tagliacozzo

We study properties of the work distribution of a many-body system driven through a quantum phase transition in finite time. We focus on the non-Gaussianity of the distribution, which we characterize through two quantitative metrics:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Krissia Zawadzki , Anthony Kiely , Gabriel T. Landi , Steve Campbell

The recently discovered dynamical phase transition denotes non-analytic behavior in the real time evolution of quantum systems in the thermodynamic limit and has been shown to occur in different systems at zero temperature [Heyl et al.,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-03-23 Nils O. Abeling , Stefan Kehrein

We introduce a general method for the construction of quasiprobability representations for arbitrary notions of quantum coherence. Our technique yields a nonnegative probability distribution for the decomposition of any classical state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-22 J. Sperling , I. A. Walmsley

We study the non-equilibrium dynamics of an isolated bipartite quantum system, the sunburst quantum Ising model, under interaction quench. The pre-quench limit of this model is two non-interacting integrable systems, namely a transverse…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-01 Akash Mitra , Shashi C. L. Srivastava

A probability density characterization of multipartite entanglement is tested on the one-dimensional quantum Ising model in a transverse field. The average and second moment of the probability distribution are numerically shown to be good…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Costantini , P. Facchi , G. Florio , S. Pascazio

We investigate the thermodynamics of a quench realized by turning on an interaction generating pure decoherence. We characterize the work probability distribution function, also with a fluctuation relation, a lower bound of the work and by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Gianluca Francica

The thermodynamic behavior of out-of-equilibrium quantum systems in finite-time dynamics encompasses the description of energy fluctuations, which dictates a series of system's physical properties. In addition, strong interactions in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Krissia Zawadzki , Roberto M. Serra , Irene D'Amico

We study the physics of quantum phase transitions from the perspective of non-equilibrium thermodynamics. For first order quantum phase transitions, we find that the average work done per quench in crossing the critical point is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-05 E. Mascarenhas , H. Braganca , R. Dorner , M. Franca Santos , V. Vedral , K. Modi , J. Goold

In the conventional two-point measurement scheme of quantum thermodynamics, quantum coherence is destroyed by the first measurement. But as we know the coherence really plays an important role in the quantum thermodynamics process, and how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Bao-Ming Xu , Jian Zou , Li-Sha Guo , Xiang-Mu Kong

We introduce a nonequilibrium phenomenon, reminiscent of Anderson's orthogonality catastrophe (OC), that arises in the transient dynamics following an interaction quench between a quantum system and a localized defect. Even if the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Beatrice Donelli , Gabriele De Chiara , Francesco Scazza , Stefano Gherardini

We study the statistics of the work done by globally changing in time with a generic protocol the mass in a free bosonic field theory with relativistic dispersion and the transverse field in the one-dimensional Ising chain both globally and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-10-15 Pietro Smacchia , Alessandro Silva

We present results on quantum quenches in systems with a fixed number of particles in a large region. We show that the typical differences between local and global quenches present in systems with regular thermodynamic limit are lacking in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-02-26 Yulia E. Shchadilova , Pedro Ribeiro , Masudul Haque

In this contribution, we aim to illustrate how quantum work statistics can be used as a tool in order to gain insight on the universal features of non-equilibrium many-body systems. Focusing on the two point measurement approach to work, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 John Goold , Francesco Plastina , Andrea Gambassi , Alessandro Silva

The key to explaining a wide range of quantum phenomena is understanding how entanglement propagates around many-body systems. Furthermore, the controlled distribution of entanglement is of fundamental importance for quantum communication…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-07-16 P. Jurcevic , B. P. Lanyon , P. Hauke , C. Hempel , P. Zoller , R. Blatt , C. F. Roos

The study of quantum phase transitions requires the preparation of a many-body system near its ground state, a challenging task for many experimental systems. The measurement of quench dynamics, on the other hand, is now a routine practice…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-13 Paraj Titum , Joseph T. Iosue , James R. Garrison , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Zhe-Xuan Gong

A sudden change of the Hamiltonian parameter drives a quantum system out of equilibrium. For a finite-size system, expectations of observables start fluctuating in time without converging to a precise limit. A new equilibrium state emerges…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-21 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi