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In this paper we establish almost-optimal stability estimates in quantum optimal transport pseudometrics for the semiclassical limit of the Hartree dynamics to the Vlasov-Poisson equation, in the regime where the solutions have bounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Mikaela Iacobelli , Laurent Lafleche

Electrons in the active region of a nanostructure constitute an open many-body quantum system, interacting with contacts, phonons, and photons. We review the basic premises of the open system theory, focusing on the common approximations…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-05-21 I. Knezevic , B. Novakovic

Optimal Transport has recently gained interest in machine learning for applications ranging from domain adaptation, sentence similarities to deep learning. Yet, its ability to capture frequently occurring structure beyond the "ground…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-19 David Alvarez-Melis , Tommi S. Jaakkola , Stefanie Jegelka

These lecture notes are based on lectures given by the author at the Les Houches 2025 summer school on "Exact Solvability and Quantum Information". The central theme of these notes is to apply the philosophy of statistical mechanics to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Romain Vasseur

This review presents a thermodynamic perspective on quantum coupled transport processes in nanoscale systems. Our analysis is formulated within the framework of entropy production rate, the central quantity governing non-equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-09 Shuvadip Ghosh , Arnab Ghosh

We develop a full theory for the new class of Optimal Entropy-Transport problems between nonnegative and finite Radon measures in general topological spaces. They arise quite naturally by relaxing the marginal constraints typical of Optimal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Matthias Liero , Alexander Mielke , Giuseppe Savaré

This paper gives an overview from the perspective of Lie group theory of some of the recent advances in the rapidly expanding research area of quantum entanglement. This paper is a written version of the last of eight one hour lectures…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Samuel J. Lomonaco

In the present review we make a comprehensive analysis of our understanding on electron transport in mesoscopic single-channel rings and multi-channel cylinders within a tight-binding framework. A spectacular mesoscopic phenomenon where a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-22 Santanu K. Maiti

In quantum transport through nanoscale devices, fluctuations arise from various sources: the discreteness of charge carriers, the statistical non-equilibrium that is required for device operation, and unavoidable quantum uncertainty. As…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Samuel L. Rudge , Daniel S. Kosov

We show that transport in the presence of entropic barriers exhibits peculiar characteristics which makes it distinctly different from that occurring through energy barriers. The constrained dynamics yields a scaling regime for the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 D. Reguera , G. Schmid , P. S. Burada , J. M. Rubí , P. Hänggi

We investigate a theoretical model for effective carrier mobility to comprehensively describe the behavior of the perpendicular carrier transport across multiple quantum well (MQW) structures under applied electric field. The analytical…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-11-20 Kasidit Toprasertpong , Stephen M. Goodnick , Yoshiaki Nakano , Masakazu Sugiyama

Lectures notes for 2004 Les Houches Summer School on "Nanoscopic Quantum Transport". These lectures contain an introduction to Keldysh formalism for interacting bosonic and fermionic systems, presented in the functional integral framework.…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Alex Kamenev

A brief survey of recent results in the study of boundary integrable quantum field theories, indicating some currently open problems. Based on lectures given at the 2000 Eotvos Summer School in Physics on `Nonperturbative QFT methods and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-08-23 Patrick Dorey

This work presents a general unifying theoretical framework for quantum non-equilibrium systems. It is based on a re-statement of the dynamical problem as one of inferring the distribution of collision events that move a system toward…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-30 David M. Rogers

This review provides a written version of the lectures presented at the Schladming Winter School 2008, Austria, on 'Nonequilibrium Aspects of Quantum Field Theory'. In particular, it shows the way from quantum-field theory - in two-particle…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-13 W. Cassing

Quantum transport is the study of the motion of electrons through nano-scale structures small enough that quantum effects are important. In this contribution I review recent theoretical proposals to use the techniques of quantum feedback…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Clive Emary

Optimal Transport (OT) theory has seen an increasing amount of attention from the computer science community due to its potency and relevance in modeling and machine learning. It introduces means that serve as powerful ways to compare…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Luis Caicedo Torres , Luiz Manella Pereira , M. Hadi Amini

There has been much work in the recent past in developing the idea of quantum geometry to characterize and understand the structure of many-particle states. For mean-field states, the quantum geometry has been defined and analysed in terms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-06-03 S. R. Hassan , Ankita Chakrabarti , R. Shankar

The semiclassical approach introduced by Sachdev and collaborators proved to be extremely successful in the study of quantum quenches in massive field theories, both in homogeneous and inhomogeneous settings. While conceptually very simple,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-07-11 Bruno Bertini , Lorenzo Piroli , Márton Kormos

Quantum transport for different systems is investigated by developing the Kubo formula on a basis of orthogonal polynomials. Results on quantum Hall systems are presented with particular attention to metal insulator transitions and new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Roche