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Dynamics of large complex systems, such as relaxation towards equilibrium in classical statistical mechanics, often obeys a master equation. The equation significantly simplifies the complexities but describes essential information of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Hyosub Kim , Yeje Park , Kyungtae Kim , H. -S. Sim , Jaewook Ahn

Estimating the steady-state properties of open many-body quantum systems is a fundamental challenge in quantum science and technologies. In this work, we present a scalable approach based on semi-definite programming to derive certified…

We demonstrate a surprising connection between pure steady state entanglement and relaxation timescales in an extremely broad class of Markovian open systems, where two (possibly many-body) systems $A$ and $B$ interact locally with a common…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-17 Andrew Pocklington , Aashish A. Clerk

We study a qDRIFT-type randomized method to simulate Lindblad dynamics by decomposing its generator into an ensemble of Lindbladians, $\mathcal{L} = \sum_{a \in \mathcal{A}} \mathcal{L}_a$, where each $\mathcal{L}_a$ comprises a simple…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Hongrui Chen , Bowen Li , Jianfeng Lu , Lexing Ying

An analytical prediction is established of how an isolated many-body quantum system relaxes towards its thermal long-time limit under the action of a time-independent perturbation, but still remaining sufficiently close to a reference case…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-03-25 Lennart Dabelow , Peter Reimann

Slow relaxation processes spanning widely separated timescales pose fundamental challenges for probing steady-state properties and engineering functional quantum systems, such as quantum heat engines and quantum computing devices. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-20 Ruicheng Bao , Zhonghuai Hou

Localization marks the breakdown of thermalization in subregions of quantum many-body systems in the presence of sufficiently large disorder. In this paper, we use numerical techniques to study thermalization and localization in a many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-03-07 Spasen Chaykov , Brenden Bowen , Nishant Agarwal

Thermalization is the process through which a physical system evolves toward a state of thermal equilibrium. Determining whether or not a physical system will thermalize from an initial state has been a key question in condensed matter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-05 Dhruv Devulapalli , T. C. Mooney , James D. Watson

In general, classical fully-connected systems are known to undergo violent relaxation. This phenomenon refers to the relaxation of observables to stationary, non-thermal, values on a finite timescale, despite their long-time dynamics being…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Guido Giachetti , Nicolò Defenu

The development of powerful numerical techniques has drastically improved our understanding of quantum matter out of equilibrium. Inspired by recent progress in the area of noisy intermediate-scale quantum devices, this paper highlights…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-01 Jonas Richter

We develop a perturbative technique for solving Markovian quantum dissipative dynamics, with the perturbation parameter being a small gap in the eigenspectrum. As an example, we apply the technique and straightforwardly obtain analytically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-09 Felix Ivander , Nicholas Anto-Sztrikacs , Dvira Segal

We reveal a correspondence between temperature and integrability-breaking in classical and quantum many-body systems through the lens of geometry and adiabatic transformations. Decreasing the temperature, obtained in a standard way through…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-03 Hyeongjin Kim , Souvik Bandyopadhyay , Anatoli Polkovnikov

The development of novel quantum many-body computational algorithms relies on robust benchmarking. However, generating such benchmarks is often hindered by the massive computational resources required for exact diagonalization or quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Wei-Bo He , Yun-Tong Yang , Hong-Gang Luo

A quantum thermodynamic system is described by a Hamiltonian and a list of conserved, non-commuting charges, and a fundamental goal is to determine the minimum energy of the system subject to constraints on the charges. Recently, [Liu et…

As recently manifested , the quench dynamics of isolated quantum systems consisting of a finite number of particles, is characterized by an exponential spreading of wave packets in the many-body Hilbert space. This happens when the…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2020-03-23 Samy Mailoud , Fausto Borgonovi , Felix Izrailev

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 present an expression for the spectral gap, opening up new possibilities for performing and accelerating spectral calculations of quantum many-body systems. We develop and demonstrate one such possibility in the context of tensor network…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Illya V. Lukin , Andrii G. Sotnikov , Jacob M. Leamer , Alicia B. Magann , Denys I. Bondar

Quantum and classical systems can consistently be coupled via non-unitary time-irreversible mechanisms. In this paper we characterize which kind of corresponding dynamics converge in the stationary regime to a thermal hybrid state, that is,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-06 Adrián A. Budini

We establish a connection between ground states of local quantum Hamiltonians and thermal states of classical spin systems. For any discrete classical statistical mechanical model in any spatial dimension, we find an associated quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-03-05 W. Dür , M. Van den Nest

We consider isolated many-body quantum systems which do not thermalize, i.e., expectation values approach an (approximately) steady longtime limit which disagrees with the microcanonical prediction of equilibrium statistical mechanics. A…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-05-22 Ben N. Balz , Peter Reimann