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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.…

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Control of cooling and heating processes is essential in many industrial and biological processes. In fact, the time evolution of an observable quantity may differ according to the previous history of the system. For example, a system that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-04-12 Antonio Lasanta , Francisco Vega Reyes , Antonio Prados , Andrés Santos

I suggest that the origin of the Mpemba effect (the freezing of hot water before cold) is freezing-point depression by solutes, either gaseous or solid, whose solubility decreases with increasing temperature so that they are removed when…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 J. I. Katz

A sweep through a quantum phase transition by means of a time-dependent external parameter (e.g., pressure) entails non-equilibrium phenomena associated with a break-down of adiabaticity: At the critical point, the energy gap vanishes and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Ralf Schützhold

Recently, the entanglement asymmetry emerged as an informative tool to understand dynamical symmetry restoration in out-of-equilibrium quantum many-body systems after a quantum quench. For integrable systems the asymmetry can be understood…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-25 Fabio Caceffo , Sara Murciano , Vincenzo Alba

The Mpemba Effect can be studied with Markovian dynamics in a non-equilibrium thermodynamics framework. The Markovian Mpemba Effect can be observed in a variety of systems including the Ising model. We demonstrate that the Markovian Mpemba…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-03-26 Felipe Amorim , Joey Wisely , Nathan Buckley , Christiana DiNardo , Daniel Sadasivan

Collision models provide a simple and versatile setting to capture the dynamics of open quantum systems. The standard approach to thermalisition in this setting involves an environment of independent and identically-prepared thermal qubits,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Ronan McElvogue , Andrew K. Mitchell , Gabriel T. Landi , Steve Campbell

We investigate a simple model exhibiting a prethermal phase, i.e. a metastable state that emerges before full thermalization, through the framework of quantum stochastic thermodynamics. We explore the effects of quantum coherence in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Simone Artini , Mauro Paternostro , Salvatore Lorenzo

We show that when a quantum many-body system is subjected to coherent periodic driving, the response may exhibit exotic freezing behavior in high driving frequency ($\omega$) regime. In a periodically driven classical thermodynamic system,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-11-09 Arnab Das

We study the internal dynamics of an elementary quantum system placed close to a body held at a temperature different from that of the surrounding radiation. We derive general expressions for lifetime and density matrix valid for bodies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Bruno Bellomo , Riccardo Messina , Mauro Antezza

The competition between evolution time, interaction strength, and temperature challenges our understanding of many-body quantum systems out-of-equilibrium. Here we consider a benchmark system, the Hubbard dimer, which allows us to explore…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-14 Marcela Herrera , Krissia Zawadzki , Irene D'Amico

We address two central open problems in the theory of anomalous Mpemba-like relaxations: their extension beyond one spatial dimension and their consistent formulation in the thermodynamic limit. Our framework is the antiferromagnetic Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-13 Emilio Pomares , Víctor Martín-Mayor , Antonio Lasanta , Gabriel Álvarez

We consider an arbitrary quantum system coupled non perturbatively to a large arbitrary and fully quantum environment. In [G. Ithier and F. Benaych-Georges, Phys. Rev. A 96, 012108 (2017)] the typicality of the dynamics of such an embedded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-20 Grégoire Ithier , Saeed Ascroft , Florent Benaych-Georges

Noncommutativity of observables is a central feature of quantum physics. It plays a fundamental role in the formulation of the uncertainty principle for complementary variables and strongly affects the laws of thermodynamics for systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Franklin L. S. Rodrigues , Eric Lutz

Thermodynamics of quantum systems out-of-equilibrium is very important for the progress of quantum technologies, however, the effects of many body interactions and their interplay with temperature, different drives and dynamical regimes is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. H. Skelt , K. Zawadzki , I. D'Amico

Describing open quantum systems far from equilibrium is challenging, in particular when the environment is mesoscopic, when it develops nonequilibrium features during the evolution, or when the memory effects cannot be disregarded. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Andreu Riera-Campeny , Anna Sanpera , Philipp Strasberg

The effects of the initial temperature in the out of equilibrium quantum field dynamics in the presence of an homogeneous external field are investigated. We consider an initial thermal state of temperature T for a constant external field…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. J. Cao , M. Feito

We study the steady state entanglement and correlations of an open system comprised of two coupled fermions in the equilibrium or nonequilibrium environments and distill the nonequilibrium contribution to the quantum correlations. We show…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-04 Xuanhua Wang , Jin Wang

Diagonalization of the effective Hamiltonian describing an open quantum system is the usual method of tracking its exceptional points. Although, such a method is successful for tracking EPs in Markovian systems, it may be problematic in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 G. Mouloudakis , P. Lambropoulos

The standard approach to quantum engines is based on equilibrium systems and on thermodynamic transformations between Gibbs states. However, non-equilibrium quantum systems offer enhanced experimental flexibility in the control of their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-06 Federico Carollo , Filippo M. Gambetta , Kay Brandner , Juan P. Garrahan , Igor Lesanovsky