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Interplay between quantum interference and classical randomness can enhance performance of various quantum information tasks. In the present paper we analyze recurrence phenomena in the discrete-time quantum stochastic walk on a line, which…

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By considering (non-relativistic) quantum mechanics as it is done in practice in particular in condensed-matter physics, it is argued that a deterministic, unitary time evolution within a chosen Hilbert space always has a limited scope,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-03 Barbara Drossel

Starting from a simple classical framework and employing some stochastic concepts, the basic ingredients of the quantum formalism are recovered. It has been shown that the traditional axiomatic structure of quantum mechanics can be rebuilt,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stephan I. Tzenov

In the last 20 years, active matter has been a very successful research field, bridging the fundamental physics of nonequilibrium thermodynamics with applications in robotics, biology, and medicine. This field deals with active particles,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-09-12 Angelo Barona Balda , Aykut Argun , Agnese Callegari , Giovanni Volpe

We describe how to characterize dynamical phase transitions in open quantum systems from a purely dynamical perspective, namely, through the statistical behavior of quantum jump trajectories. This approach goes beyond considering only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-26 Igor Lesanovsky , Merlijn van Horssen , Madalin Guta , Juan P. Garrahan

We discuss the interplay between transport and dissipation in quantum Hall bilayers. We show that quantum effects are relevant in the pseudospin picture of these systems, leading either to direct tunnelling currents or to quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert L. Jack , Derek K. K. Lee , Nigel R. Cooper

The general problem of dissipation in macroscopic large-amplitude collective motion and its relation to energy diffusion of intrinsic degrees of freedom of a nucleus is studied. By applying the cranking approach to the nuclear many body…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-09-01 V. M. Kolomietz , S. V. Radionov

Nonreciprocal effects in nanoelectronic devices offer unique possibilities for manipulating electron transport and engineering quantum electronic circuits for information processing purposes. However, a lack of rigorous theoretical tools is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-15 Junjie Liu , Dvira Segal

The relative power of quantum algorithms, using an adaptive access to quantum devices, versus classical post-processing methods that rely only on an initial quantum data set, remains the subject of active debate. Here, we present evidence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Oleksandr Kyriienko , Chukwudubem Umeano , Zoë Holmes

We develop a unified quantum geometric framework to understand reactive quantum dynamics. The critical roles of the quantum geometry of adiabatic electronic states in both adiabatic and non-adiabatic quantum dynamics are unveiled. A…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-05-19 Yujuan Xie , Ruoxi Liu , Bing Gu

Active matter is one of the hottest topics in physics nowadays. As a prototype of living systems operating in viscous environments it has usually been modeled in terms of the overdamped dynamics. Recently, active matter in the underdamped…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-31 K. Białas , J. Spiechowicz

Quantum mechanical objects or nanoobjects have been proposed as bits for information storage. While time-averaged properties of magnetic, quantum-mechanical particles have been extensively studied experimentally and theoretically,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-20 M. Krizanac , D. Altwein , E. Y. Vedmedenko , R. Wiesendanger

Typically the motion of self-propelled active particles is described in a quiescent environment establishing an inertial frame of reference. Here we assume that friction, self-propulsion and uctuations occur relative to a non-inertial frame…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-26 Hartmut Löwen

We show that the classical mechanics of an algebraic model are implied by its quantizations. An algebraic model is defined, and the corresponding classical and quantum realizations are given in terms of a spectrum generating algebra.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , David J. Rowe

A model of joint random walk of two agents on an infinite plane is considered. The agents possess no means of mutual classical communication, but have access to quantum entanglement resource which is used according to a pre-arranged…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Aiham M. Rostom , Vladimir A. Tomilin , Leonid V. Il'ichov

We propose a generic mechanism for the emergence of a gravitational potential that acts on all classical objects in a quantum system. Our conjecture is based on the analysis of mutual information in many-body quantum systems. Since…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Dries Sels , Michiel Wouters

In quantum mechanics, the operator representing the displacement of a system in position or momentum is always accompanied by a path-dependent phase factor. In particular, two non-parallel displacements in phase space do not compose…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Amar C. Vutha , Eliot A. Bohr , Anthony Ransford , Wesley C. Campbell , Paul Hamilton

Some of the important non-classical aspects of quantum mechanics can be described in more intuitive terms if they are reformulated in a geometrical picture based on an extension of the classical phase space. This contribution presents…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-13 Martin Bojowald

In our bouncer-walker model a quantum is a nonequilibrium steady-state maintained by a permanent throughput of energy. Specifically, we consider a "particle" as a bouncer whose oscillations are phase-locked with those of the energy-momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 Herbert Schwabl , Johannes Mesa Pascasio , Siegfried Fussy , Gerhard Groessing

Using a group theoretical approach we derive an equation of motion for a mixed quantum-classical system. The quantum-classical bracket entering the equation preserves the Lie algebra structure of quantum and classical mechanics: The bracket…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Oleg V. Prezhdo , Vladimir V. Kisil