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We report temperature measurements using a transmon qubit by detecting the population of its first three energy levels, after applying a sequence of $\pi$-pulses and performing projective dispersive readout. We measure the effective…

We investigate the sensing performance of a single-qubit quantum thermometer within a non-Markovian dynamical framework. By employing an exactly numerical hierarchical equations of the motion method, we go beyond traditional paradigms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Wei Wu

We present a quantum thermometric protocol for the estimation of multiple temperatures within the collisional model framework. Employing the formalism of multiparameter quantum metrology, we develop a systematic strategy to estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Srijon Ghosh , Sagnik Chakraborty , Rosario Lo Franco

We initiate the study of equilibration rates of strongly coupled quark-gluon plasmas in the absence of conformal symmetry. We primarily consider a supersymmetric mass deformation within ${\cal N}=2^{*}$ gauge theory and use holography to…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-24 Alex Buchel , Michal P. Heller , Robert C. Myers

Thermodynamics relies on the possibility to describe systems composed of a large number of constituents in terms of few macroscopic variables. Its foundations are rooted into the paradigm of statistical mechanics, where thermal properties…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 Antonella De Pasquale , Davide Rossini , Rosario Fazio , Vittorio Giovannetti

The quasicontinuum method was originally introduced to bridge across length scales -- from atomistics to significantly larger continuum scales -- thus overcoming a key limitation of classical atomic-scale simulation techniques while solely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Prateek Gupta , Michael Ortiz , Dennis M. Kochmann

Thermalization play a central role in out-of-equilibrium physics of ultracold atoms or electronic transport phenomena. On the other hand, entanglement concepts have proven to be extremely useful to investigate quantum phases of matter.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-03-17 Didier Poilblanc

We introduce the estimation protocol for detecting the temperature of the transverse vibrational modes of linear ion crystal. We show that thanks to the laser induced laser coupling between the vibrational modes and the collective spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-26 Peter A. Ivanov

We follow the time evolution of nonabelian gauge bosons from far-from-equilibrium initial conditions to thermal equilibrium by numerically solving an effective kinetic equation that becomes accurate in the weak coupling limit. We consider…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-05 Aleksi Kurkela , Egang Lu

Tackling the low-temperature fate of supercooled liquids is challenging due to the immense timescales involved, which prevent equilibration and lead to the operational glass transition. Relating glassy behaviour to an underlying,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-08-16 Francesco Turci , C. Patrick Royall , Thomas Speck

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

Isolated quantum systems typically approach thermal equilibrium as described by the Eigenstate Thermalization Hypothesis (ETH). Going beyond this involves either higher order correlators (full thermalization) or the formation of state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Tabea Herrmann , Felix Fritzsch , Arnd Bäcker

Preparing ground states and thermal states is essential for simulating quantum systems on quantum computers. Despite the hope for practical quantum advantage in quantum simulation, popular state preparation approaches have been challenged.…

We propose a method based on deep reinforcement learning that efficiently prepares a quantum many-body pure state in thermal or prethermal equilibrium. The main physical intuition underlying the method is that the information on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-30 Shotaro Z. Baba , Nobuyuki Yoshioka , Yuto Ashida , Takahiro Sagawa

We discuss what kind of quantum channels can enable thermalization processes. We show that in order to determine a system's temperature, a thermometer needs to dynamically gain information about the system's local Hamiltonian and not just…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-09 Daniel Grimmer , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

The thermalization of an isolated quantum system is described by quantum mechanics and thermodynamics, while these two subjects are still not fully consistent with each other. This leaves a less-explored region where both quantum and…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2024-11-22 Yuqing Wang , Libo Liang , Qinpei Zheng , Qi Huang , Wenlan Chen , Jing Zhang , Xuzong Chen , Jiazhong Hu

In this paper we develop a new general Bayesian methodology that simultaneously estimates parameters of interest and the marginal likelihood of the model. The proposed methodology builds on Simulated Tempering, which is a powerful algorithm…

Computation · Statistics 2019-06-03 Biljana Jonoska Stojkova , David A. Campbell

The meaning of temperature in nonequilibrium thermodynamics is considered by using a forced harmonic oscillator in a heat bath, where we have two effective temperatures for the position and the momentum, respectively. We invent a concrete…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Takahiro Hatano , David Jou

Quantifying the temperature of microdevices is critical for probing nanoscale energy transport.Such quantification is often accomplished by integrating resistance thermometers into microdevices. However, such thermometers frequently become…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-05 Amin Reihani , Shen Yan , Yuxuan Luan , Rohith Mittapally , Edgar Meyhofer , Pramod Reddy

Squeezed light enables quantum-enhanced phase estimation, with crucial applications in both fundamental physics and emerging technologies. To fully exploit the advantage provided by this approach, estimation protocols must remain optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-17 Giorgio Minati , Enrico Urbani , Nicolò Spagnolo , Valeria Cimini , Fabio Sciarrino