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We determine the conditions under which the presence of long-range interactions reduce the energy losses due to defect generation during non-adiabatic evolution, crucial for enhancing the power to efficiency ratio of quantum thermal…

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We identify and interpret the possible quantum thermal machine regimes with a transverse-field Ising model as the working substance. In general, understanding the emergence of such regimes in a many-body quantum system is challenging due to…

When an external parameter drives a system across a quantum phase transition at a finite rate, work is performed on the system and entropy is dissipated, due to the creation of excitations via the Kibble-Zurek mechanism. Although both the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Zhanyu Ma , Andrew K. Mitchell , Eran Sela

We develop the strong coupling quantum thermodynamics based on the solution of the exact master equation. We find that both the Hamiltonian and the temperature must be renormalized due to the system-reservoir couplings. With the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-06 Wei-Ming Huang , Wei-Min Zhang

In this review paper, we discuss the statistical description in non-equilibrium regimes of energy fluctuations originated by the interaction between a quantum system and a measurement apparatus applying a sequence of repeated quantum…

Quantum systems are by their very nature fragile. The fundamental backaction on a state due to quantum measurement notwithstanding, there is also in practice often a destruction of the system itself due to the means of measurement. This…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Thomas J. Elliott , Mile Gu , Jayne Thompson , Nana Liu

In any given experimental scenario, the rules of quantum theory provide statistical distributions that the observed outcomes are expected to follow. The set formed by all these distributions contains the imprint of quantum theory, capturing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Victor Barizien , Jean-Daniel Bancal

The $q$-deformed statistics for fermions arising within the non-extensive thermostatistical formalism has been applied to the study of various quantum many-body systems recently. The aim of the present note is to point out some subtle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-11-21 J. M. Conroy , H. G. Miller , A. R. Plastino

Understanding how coherence of quantum systems affects thermodynamic quantities, such as work and heat, is essential for harnessing quantumness effectively in thermal quantum technologies. Here, we study the unique contributions of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Rui Huang , Q. Y. Cai , Farzam Nosrati , Rosario Lo Franco , Zhong-Xiao Man

Just a few years after the inception of quantum mechanics, there has been a research program using the nonclassical values of some quasiprobability distributions to delineate the nonclassical aspects of quantum phenomena. In particular, in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-24 Agung Budiyono , Joel F. Sumbowo , Mohammad K. Agusta , Bagus E. B. Nurhandoko

We report on the experimental measurement of the work statistics of a genuinely open quantum system using a quantum computer. Such measurement has remained elusive thus far due to the inherent difficulty in measuring the total energy change…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-19 Lindsay Bassman Oftelie , Michele Campisi

To elucidate ideal measurements, one must explain how individual events emerge from quantum theory which deals with statistical ensembles, and how different may end up with different final states. This so-called "measurement problem" is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Armen E. Allahverdyan , Roger Balian , Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen

Quantum computing offers a powerful new perspective on probabilistic and collective behaviors traditionally taught in statistical physics. This paper presents two classroom-ready modules that integrate quantum computing into the…

Physics Education · Physics 2025-11-06 Zihan Li , Dan A. Mazilu , Irina Mazilu

Quantum batteries can be charged by performing a work ``instantaneously'' in the limit of a large number of cells, achieving a so-called quantum advantage. In general, the work exhibits statistics that can be represented by a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Gianluca Francica

Characterizing the work statistics of driven complex quantum systems is generally challenging because of the exponential growth with the system size of the number of transitions involved between different energy levels. We consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-07 Aurélia Chenu , Javier Molina-Vilaplana , Adolfo del Campo

Energy is often partitioned into heat and work by two independent paths corresponding to the change in the eigenenergies or the probability distributions of a quantum system. The discrepancies of the heat and work for various quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-01 Shan-He Su , Jin-Fu Chen , Yu-Han Ma , Jin-Can Chen , Chang-Pu Sun

We experimentally verify the Jarzynski and W\"ojcik quantum heat exchange fluctuation relation by implementing the interferometric technique in liquid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance setup and study the exchange heat statistics between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-30 Soham Pal , T S Mahesh , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

An issue which has attracted increasing attention in contemporary researches are Kirkwood--Dirac quasiprobabilities. List of their use includes many questions of quantum physics. Applications of complex tight frames in quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Alexey E. Rastegin

Knowledge of all correlation functions of a system is equivalent to solving the corresponding many-body problem. Already a finite set of correlation functions can be sufficient to describe a quantum many-body system if correlations…

Husimi distributions and Wigner distributions are well-known quasi-probability distributions which appear in several contexts. In this paper, we show some remarkable aspects of these distribution functions related to geometric structures of…

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