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Quantum mechanics requires that identical particles are treated as indistinguishable. This requirement leads to correlations in the fluctuating properties of a system. Theoretical predictions are made for an experiment on a multi-lead…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 S. A. van Langen , M. Buttiker

Heat transport in open quantum systems is particularly susceptible to the modeling of system-reservoir interactions. It thus requires to consistently treat the coupling between a quantum system and its environment. While perturbative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Thomas Motz , Joachim Ankerhold , Jürgen T. Stockburger

Understanding fluctuations of observables across stochastic trajectories is essential for various fields of research, from quantum thermal machines to biological motors. We introduce a framework to analyze the statistics of counting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-17 Guilherme Fiusa , Pedro E. Harunari , Abhaya S. Hegde , Gabriel T. Landi

We discuss the role of quantum coherence in the energy fluctuations of open quantum systems. To this aim, we introduce a protocol, to which we refer to as the end-point-measurement scheme, allowing to define the statistics of energy changes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 S. Gherardini , A. Belenchia , M. Paternostro , A. Trombettoni

Recent large deviation results have provided general lower bounds for the fluctuations of time-integrated currents in the steady state of stochastic systems. A corollary are so-called thermodynamic uncertainty relations connecting precision…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-03-29 Juan P. Garrahan

A complete characterization of quantum fluctuations in many-body systems is accessible through the full counting statistics. We present an exact computation of statistical properties of light in a basic model of light-matter interaction: a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-14 Mikhail Pletyukhov , Matouš Ringel , Vladimir Gritsev

Most systems, when pushed out of equilibrium, respond by building up currents of locally-conserved observables. Understanding how microscopic dynamics determines the averages and fluctuations of these currents is one of the main open…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-09-08 Pablo I. Hurtado , Pedro L. Garrido

The quantum measurement problems are revisited from a new perspective. One of the main ideas of this work is that the basic entities of our world are various types of particles, elementary or composite. It follows that each elementary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 Kenichi Konishi

There exist some boundary-driven open systems with diffusive dynamics whose particle current fluctuations exhibit universal features that belong to the Edwards-Wilkinson universality class. We achieve this result by establishing a mapping,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-11-29 Alberto Imparato , Vivien Lecomte , Frédéric Van Wijland

In this paper we aim at characterizing the effect of stochastic fluctuations on the distribution of the energy exchanged by a quantum system with an external environment under sequences of quantum measurements performed at random times.…

The interplay between thermodynamics, general relativity and quantum mechanics has long intrigued researchers. Recently, important advances have been obtained in thermodynamics, mainly regarding its application to the quantum domain through…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-07 Marcos L. W. Basso , Jonas Maziero , Lucas Chibebe Céleri

A quantum field model for an experiment describes thermal fluctuations explicitly and quantum fluctuations implicitly, whereas a comparable continuous random field model would describe both thermal and quantum fluctuations explicitly. An…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Peter Morgan

In this paper, we extend the fluctuation theorems used for quantum channels to multitime processes. The fluctuation theorems for quantum channels are less restrictive. We show that the given entropy production can be equal to the result of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-30 Zhiqiang Huang

A quantum system in contact with a heat bath undergoes quantum transitions between energy levels upon absorption or emission of energy quanta by the bath. These transitions remain virtual unless the energy of the system is measured…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 Michel Bauer , Denis Bernard

By measuring a linear response function directly, such as the dynamic susceptibility, one can understand fundamental material properties. However, a fresh perspective can be offered by studying fluctuations. This can be related back to the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-05-04 L. Shen , M. Seaberg , E. Blackburn , J. J. Turner

The continuous time stochastic process is a mainstream mathematical instrument modeling the random world with a wide range of applications involving finance, statistics, physics, and time series analysis, while the simulation and analysis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-04 Xi-Ning Zhuang , Zhao-Yun Chen , Cheng Xue , Yu-Chun Wu , Guo-Ping Guo

As a fundamental measure of stability in nonequilibrium thermodynamics, fluctuations provide critical insight into the performance and reliability of heat engines. In this work, we establish universal fluctuation-dissipation bounds that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-13 Ousi Pan , Zhiqiang Fan , Shunjie Zhang , Jie Li , Jincan Chen , Shanhe Su

Quantum paradoxes show that the outcomes of different quantum measurements cannot be described by a single measurement-independent reality. Any theoretical description of a quantum measurement implies the selection of a specific measurement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-15 Jonte R. Hance , Ming Ji , Tomonori Matsushita , Holger F. Hofmann

Quantum mechanics can strongly influence the noise properties of mesoscopic devices. To probe this effect we have measured the current fluctuations at high-frequency (5-90 GHz) using a superconductor-insulator-superconductor tunnel junction…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Deblock , E. Onac , L. Gurevich , L. P. Kouwenhoven

Recently discovered measurement-induced entanglement phase transitions in monitored quantum circuits provide a novel example of far-from-equilibrium quantum criticality. Here, we propose a highly efficient strategy for experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Ali G. Moghaddam , Kim Pöyhönen , Teemu Ojanen