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In this study, we investigate out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) in systems with power-law decaying interactions such as $R^{-\alpha}$, where $R$ is the distance. In such systems, the fast scrambling of quantum information or the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-29 Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

We study the ultimate bounds on the estimation of temperature for an interacting quantum system. We consider two coupled bosonic modes that are assumed to be thermal and using quantum estimation theory establish the role the Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 Steve Campbell , Mohammad Mehboudi , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro

Originally formulated for macroscopic machines, the laws of thermodynamics were recently shown to hold for quantum systems coupled to ideal sources of work (external classical fields) and heat (systems at equilibrium). Ongoing efforts have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Cyril Elouard , Camille Lombard Latune

How quantum coherence influences thermodynamic behavior remains an open question in quantum thermodynamics. Here we investigate this relation within the pure dephasing framework, where a central qubit interacts with a finite Ising-like spin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-31 Marino P. Lenzarini , Diogo O. Soares-Pinto

Statistical mechanics assumes that a quantum many-body system at low temperature can be effectively described by its Gibbs state. However, many complex quantum systems exist only as metastable states of dissipative open system dynamics,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Thiago Bergamaschi , Chi-Fang Chen , Umesh Vazirani

Preparing quantum thermal states on a quantum computer is in general a difficult task. We provide a procedure to prepare a thermal state on a quantum computer with a logarithmic depth circuit of local quantum channels assuming that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-13 Fernando G. S. L. Brandao , Michael J. Kastoryano

Thermalization of isolated quantum systems has been studied intensively in recent years and significant progresses have been achieved. Here, we study thermalization of small quantum systems that interact with large chaotic environments…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-06-05 Jiaozi Wang , Wen-ge Wang , Jiao Wang

The thermal properties of ice, liquid water and steam are at odds with statistical theories applied to many-body systems. Here, these properties are quantitatively explained with a bulk-scale matter field emerging from the indefinite status…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-03-16 François Fillaux

The clustering property of an equilibrium bipartite correlation is one of the most general thermodynamic properties in non-critical many-body quantum systems. Herein, we consider the thermalization properties of a system class exhibiting…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-27 Tomotaka Kuwahara , Keiji Saito

It has been proved that in gapped ground states of locally-interacting quantum systems, the effect of local perturbations decays exponentially with distance. However, in systems with power-law ($1/r^\alpha$) decaying interactions, no…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-26 Zhiyuan Wang , Kaden R. A. Hazzard

Distribution of granular temperatures in granular gas mixtures is investigated analytically and numerically. We analyze space uniform systems in a homogeneous cooling state (HCS) and under a uniform heating with a mass-dependent heating…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 Anna Bodrova , Denis Levchenko , Nikolay Brilliantov

We prove the existence of non-equilibrium phases of matter in the prethermal regime of periodically-driven, long-range interacting systems, with power-law exponent $\alpha > d$, where $d$ is the dimensionality of the system. In this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-02-25 Francisco Machado , Dominic V. Else , Gregory D. Kahanamoku-Meyer , Chetan Nayak , Norman Y. Yao

We consider measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) on thermal states of the interacting cluster Hamiltonian containing interactions between the cluster stabilizers that undergoes thermal phase transitions. We show that the long-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Keisuke Fujii , Yoshifumi Nakata , Masayuki Ohzeki , Mio Murao

In a locally interacting many-body system, two isolated qubits, separated by a large distance $r$, become correlated and entangled with each other at a time $t \ge r/v$. This finite speed $v$ of quantum information scrambling limits quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-25 Chi-Fang Chen , Andrew Lucas

Random measurements have been shown to induce a phase transition in an extended quantum system evolving under chaotic unitary dynamics, when the strength of measurements exceeds a threshold value. Below this threshold, a steady state with a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-06-02 Ruihua Fan , Sagar Vijay , Ashvin Vishwanath , Yi-Zhuang You

A physical system should be in a local equilibrium if it cannot be distinguished from a global equilibrium by ``infinitesimally localized measurements''. This seems to be a natural characterization of local equilibrium, however the problem…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Hermann Hessling

The thermodynamic limit of the internal energy and the entropy of the system of quantum interacting particles in random medium is shown to exist under the crucial requirements of stability and temperedness of interactions. The energy turns…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-01-24 Nikolaj A. Veniaminov

Physical interactions in quantum many-body systems are typically local: Individual constituents interact mainly with their few nearest neighbors. This locality of interactions is inherited by a decay of correlation functions, but also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-06 J. Eisert , M. Cramer , M. B. Plenio

We study correlations in fermionic lattice systems with long-range interactions in thermal equilibrium. We prove a bound on the correlation decay between anti-commuting operators and generalize a long-range Lieb-Robinson type bound. Our…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-15 Senaida Hernández-Santana , Christian Gogolin , J. Ignacio Cirac , Antonio Acín

The Landauer principle states that any logically irreversible information processing must be accompanied by dissipation into the environment. In this study, we investigate the heat dissipation associated with finite-time information erasure…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-01-05 Tan Van Vu , Keiji Saito