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The quantum Mpemba effect in open quantum systems has been extensively studied, but a comprehensive understanding of this phenomenon remains elusive. In this paper, we conduct an analytical investigation of the dissipative dynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 J. W. Dong , H. F. Mu , M. Qin , H. T. Cui

In non-equilibrium quantum many-body systems, the quantum Mpemba effect (QME) emerges as a counterintuitive phenomenon: systems exhibiting greater initial symmetry breaking restore symmetry faster than those with less. While theoretical…

We show that in a linear quantum machine, a driven quantum system that evolves while coupled with thermal reservoirs, entanglement between the reservoir modes is unavoidably generated. This phenomenon, which occurs at sufficiently low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-04 Milton Aguilar , Nahuel Freitas , Juan Pablo Paz

We study the nature of thermalization dynamics and the associated preparation (simulation) time under the repeated interaction protocol uncovering a generic anomalous, Mpemba-like trend. As a case study, we focus on a three-level system and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Carlos Ramon-Escandell , Alessandro Prositto , Dvira Segal

When a quantum system interacts with multiple reservoirs, the environmental effects are usually treated in an additive manner. We show that this assumption breaks down for non-Markovian environments that have finite memory times.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-04-30 Ching-Kit Chan , Guin-Dar Lin , Susanne F. Yelin , Mikhail D. Lukin

The extension of quantum thermodynamics to situations that go beyond standard thermodynamic settings comprises an important and interesting aspect of its development. One such situation is the analysis of the thermodynamic consequences of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-23 Patrice A. Camati , Jonas F. G. Santos , Roberto M. Serra

The influence of the environment in the thermal equilibrium properties of a bipartite continuous variable quantum system is studied. The problem is treated within a system-plus-reservoir approach. The considered model reproduces the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-07-05 D. M. Valente , A. O. Caldeira

For open quantum systems coupled to a thermal bath at inverse temperature $\beta$, it is well known that under the Born-, Markov-, and secular approximations the system density matrix will approach the thermal Gibbs state with the bath…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-15 Gernot Schaller

We investigate adiabatic pumping via a single level quantum dot induced by periodic modulation of thermodynamic variables of reservoirs, i.e., temperatures and electrochemical potentials. We consider the impurity Anderson model and derive…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 M. Hasegawa , T. Kato

The rapidly developing quantum technologies and thermodynamics have put forward a requirement to precisely control and measure the temperature of microscopic matter at the quantum level. Many quantum thermometry schemes have been proposed.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Ning Zhang , Chong Chen , Si-Yuan Bai , Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

The quantum Mpemba effect (QME) describes the counterintuitive phenomenon in which a system farther from equilibrium reaches steady state faster than one closer to equilibrium. However, ambiguity in defining a suitable distance measure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Dongheng Qian , Huan Wang , Jing Wang

We study the interplay between Coulomb blockade and the Kondo effect in quantum dots. We use a self-consistent scheme which describes mesoscopic devices in terms of a collective phase variable (slave rotor) and quasiparticle degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Florens , P. San Jose , F. Guinea , A. Georges

We investigate a system of two interacting qubits having one of them isolated and the other coupled to a thermal reservoir. We consider two different models of system-reservoir interaction: i) a "microscopic" model, in which the master…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-09 G. L. Deçordi , A. Vidiella-Barranco

The Empemba effect (ME) is investigated in the context of ubiquitous quantum oscillating and two-level systems (TLS) using a novel approach (DOI 10.1088/1402-4896/ad97f1). Exact reduced density matrices for various initial states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-03 Fardin Kheirandish , Narges Cheraghpour , Adam Moradian

The quantum Mpemba effect (QMPE), an intriguing anomalous relaxation phenomenon, has recently attracted significant attention. However, how various types of noise, which are ubiquitous in real systems, may affect the QMPE remains unknown.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Mingrui Zhao , Zhonghuai Hou

The heat flow between a quantum system and its reservoir is analyzed when initially both are in a separable thermal state and asymptotically approach a correlated equilibrium. General findings are illustrated for specific systems and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Joachim Ankerhold , Jukka P. Pekola

Quantum non-Markovianity represents memory during the system dynamics, which is typically weakened by the temperature. We here study the effects of environmental temperature on the non-Markovianity of an open quantum system by virtue of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Zhong-Xiao Man , Yun-Jie Xia , Rosario Lo Franco

We demonstrate that when a quantum dot is embedded between the two reservoirs described by different statistical distribution functions, the reverse flow and amplification of heat can be realized by regulating the energy levels of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Jianying Du , Tong Fu , Jingyi Chen , Shanhe Su , Jincan Chen

We develop a perturbative technique for solving Markovian quantum dissipative dynamics, with the perturbation parameter being a small gap in the eigenspectrum. As an example, we apply the technique and straightforwardly obtain analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Felix Ivander , Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs , Dvira Segal

Practical implementations of quantum technologies require preparation of states with a high degree of purity---or, in thermodynamic terms, very low temperatures. Given finite resources, the Third Law of thermodynamics prohibits perfect…