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Heat transport in open quantum systems is particularly susceptible to the modeling of system-reservoir interactions. It thus requires to consistently treat the coupling between a quantum system and its environment. While perturbative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Thomas Motz , Joachim Ankerhold , Jürgen T. Stockburger

We consider the dissipative dynamics of a qubit coupled to a nonlinear oscillator (NO) embedded in an Ohmic environment. By treating the nonlinearity up to first order and applying Van Vleck perturbation theory up to second order in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-12-03 Carmen Vierheilig , Johannes Hausinger , Milena Grifoni

We analyze a system coupled to a bath of independent harmonic oscillators. We transform the bath in chain structure by solving an inverse eigenvalue problem. We solve the equations of motion for the collective variables defined by this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 L. Ferialdi , D. Dürr

The study of quantum thermodynamics is key to the development of quantum thermal machines. In contrast to most of the previous proposals based on discrete strokes, here we consider a working substance that is permanently coupled to two or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Heather Leitch , Nicolò Piccione , Bruno Bellomo , Gabriele De Chiara

We study a passive probe immersed in a fluid of active particles. Despite the system's non-equilibrium nature, the trajectory of the probe does not exhibit non-equilibrium signatures: its velocity distribution remains Gaussian, the second…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-01-17 Jeanine Shea , Gerhard Jung , Friederike Schmid

We consider a driven tracer particle (TP) in a bath of hard-core particles undergoing continuous exchanges with a reservoir. We develop an analytical framework which allows us to go beyond the standard force-velocity relation used for this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 O. Bénichou , P. Illien , G. Oshanin , R. Voituriez

We show that dense active fluids comprising interacting particles with persistent self-propulsion are driven to a non-equilibrium steady state consisting of co-moving particles with co-aligned active forces. This velocity and force sorting…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-03 Suman Dutta , Pinaki Chaudhuri , Madan Rao , Chandan Dasgupta

Thermalization in quantum many-body systems typically unfolds over timescales governed by intrinsic relaxation mechanisms. Yet, its spatial aspect is less understood. We investigate this phenomenon in the nonequilibrium steady state (NESS)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-22 Filippo Ferrari , Fabrizio Minganti , Camille Aron , Vincenzo Savona

When an open quantum system is driven by an external time-dependent force, the coupling of the driving to the central system is usually included whereas the impact of the driving field on the bath is neglected. We investigate the effect of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-30 Joscha Reichert , Peter Nalbach , Michael Thorwart

Non-reciprocal interactions play a key role in shaping transport in active and passive systems, giving rise to striking nonequilibrium behavior. Here, we study the dynamics of a tracer -- active or passive -- embedded in a bath of active or…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-08 Subhajit Paul , Debasish Chaudhuri

The particle transport through a chain of quantum dots coupled to two bosonic reservoirs is studied. For the case of reservoirs of non-interacting bosonic particles, we derive an exact set of stochastic differential equations, whose memory…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Anton Ivanov , Georgios Kordas , Andreas Komnik , Sandro Wimberger

We present a comprehensive study about the relationship between the way Detailed Balance is broken in non-equilibrium systems and the resulting violations of the Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem. Starting from stochastic dynamics with both…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-16 Sara Dal Cengio , Demian Levis , Ignacio Pagonabarraga

Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum systems driven dissipatively by coupling them to different baths at their edges. This was possible because of the concurrent advances in the models used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-15 Gabriel T. Landi , Dario Poletti , Gernot Schaller

The properties of an active fluid, for example, a bacterial bath or a collection of microtubules and molecular motors, can be accessed through the dynamics of passive particle probes. Here, in the perspective of analyzing experimental…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-19 Cristian Villalobos , María Luisa Cordero , Eric Clément , Rodrigo Soto

We show that coupling together two closed thermodynamic systems that independently attain equilibrium may give rise to a nonequilibrium stationary state (NESS) with a persistent, non-vanishing current. We study a simple example that is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-01-23 Hernán Larralde , David P. Sanders

Active matter, encompassing natural systems, converts surrounding energy to sustain autonomous motion, exhibiting unique non-equilibrium behaviors such as active turbulence and phase separation. In this study, we develop a continuum…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-06 Sohail Ahmed , Zixiang Lin , Zijie Qu

The finite coupled bosonic model of reservoir introduced by Vasile et al. [1] to characterize non-Markovianity, is used to study the different dissipative behaviors of a harmonic oscillator coupled to it when it is in resonance, close to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-06 Fernando Galve , Roberta Zambrini

We use the system-plus-reservoir approach to study the quantum dynamics of a bipartite continuous variable system (two generic particles). We present an extension of the traditional model of a bath of oscillators which is capable of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 O. S. Duarte , A. O. Caldeira

We examine the mobility and velocity fluctuations of a driven particle moving through an active matter bath of self-mobile disks for varied density or area coverage and varied activity. We show that the driven particle mobility can exhibit…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-04-01 C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

We consider the dynamical properties of a gapped quantum spin system coupled to the electric field of a laser, which drives the resonant excitation of specific phonon modes that modulate the magnetic interactions. We deduce the quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-02-02 M. Yarmohammadi , C. Meyer , B. Fauseweh , B. Normand , G. S. Uhrig