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The behavior of strongly correlated Fermi systems is investigated beyond the onset of a phase transition where the single-particle spectrum $\xi({\bf p})$ becomes flat. The Landau-Migdal quasiparticle picture is shown to remain applicable…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2008-03-27 V. A. Khodel , J. W. Clark , M. V. Zverev

It is of great interest to understand the thermalization of open quantum many-body systems, and how quantum computers are able to efficiently simulate that process. A recently introduced disispative evolution, inspired by existing models of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França , Álvaro M. Alhambra

The preparation of thermal states of matter is a crucial task in quantum simulation. In this work, we prove that a recently introduced, efficiently implementable dissipative evolution thermalizes to the Gibbs state in time scaling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Cambyse Rouzé , Daniel Stilck França , Álvaro M. Alhambra

Quantum systems typically reach thermal equilibrium rather quickly when coupled to a thermal environment. The usual way of bounding the speed of this process is by estimating the spectral gap of the dissipative generator. However the gap,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-08 Jan Kochanowski , Alvaro M. Alhambra , Angela Capel , Cambyse Rouzé

We consider finite-range, many-body fermionic lattice models and we study the evolution of their thermal equilibrium state after introducing a weak and slowly varying time-dependent perturbation. Under suitable assumptions on the external…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2024-07-12 Rafael L. Greenblatt , Markus Lange , Giovanna Marcelli , Marcello Porta

The dynamical convergence of a system to the thermal distribution, or Gibbs state, is a standard assumption across all of the physical sciences. The Gibbs state is determined just by temperature and the system's energies alone. But at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-27 A. S. Trushechkin , M. Merkli , J. D. Cresser , J. Anders

The preparation of quantum Gibbs states at finite temperatures is a cornerstone of quantum computation, enabling applications in quantum simulation of many-body systems, machine learning via quantum Boltzmann machines, and optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-17 Rui-Hao Li , Semeon Valgushev , Khadijeh Najafi

The Lindblad equation is commonly used for studying quantum dynamics in open systems that cannot be completely isolated from an environment, relevant to a broad variety of research fields, such as atomic physics, materials science, quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Zhu Ruan , Roi Baer

We recently introduced a novel replica-exchange scheme in which an individual replica can sample from states encountered by other replicas at any previous time by way of a global configuration database, enabling the fast propagation of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-12-15 Thomas Vogel , Danny Perez

We study the problem of sampling from and preparing quantum Gibbs states of local commuting Hamiltonians on hypercubic lattices of arbitrary dimension. We prove that any such Gibbs state which satisfies a clustering condition that we coin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Ángela Capel , Paul Gondolf , Jan Kochanowski , Cambyse Rouzé

Strongly interacting fermions underpin some of the most challenging problems in condensed matter physics, such as high-temperature superconductivity. The low-energy states of these systems encode their essential microscopic properties, yet…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-05-05 Henning Schlömer , Liyuan Chen , Susanne F. Yelin , Hong-Ye Hu

We present a unitary framework for dissipative quantum dynamics that can be efficiently applied to large-scale Fermi systems. The method introduces local Hermitian operators that emulate frictional forces while strictly preserving the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-12-16 J. E. Alba-Arroyo , Daniel Pęcak , Michael McNeil Forbes , Gabriel Wlazłowski

{Many-body quantum states at thermal equilibrium are ubiquitous in nature. Investigating their dynamical properties is a formidable task due to the complexity of the Hilbert space they live in. Quantum computers may have the potential to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 Mirko Consiglio , Tony J. G. Apollaro

We study two-body non-Hermitian physics in the context of an open dissipative system depicted by the Lindblad master equation. Adopting a minimal lattice model of a handful of interacting fermions with single-particle dissipation, we show…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-01-19 Peize Ding , Wei Yi

Dynamics of strongly interacting Fermi gases, consisting of a 50-50 mixture of two different fermionic species, is investigated. For the equation of state we consider a Pad\'{e} [2/2] approximations, which gives the weak-coupling…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 Yeong E. Kim , Alexander L. Zubarev

Thermal state preparation is a central challenge in the simulation of quantum many-body systems. Yet, provably efficient algorithms for this task were only introduced recently [Chen et al. Nature 646, 561 (2025)]. These algorithms are based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-06 Christopher Ong , S. A. Parameswaran , Benedikt Placke , Dominik Hahn

Two identical finite quantum systems prepared initially at different temperatures, isolated from the environment, and subsequently brought into contact are demonstrated to relax towards Gibbs-like quasi-equilibrium states with a common…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-01-10 Alexey V. Ponomarev , Sergey Denisov , Peter Hänggi

We consider a fermionic quantum system exchanging particles with an environment at a fixed temperature and study its reduced evolution by means of a Redfield-I equation with time-dependent (non-Markovian) coefficients. We find that the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-04 Lukas Litzba , Eric Kleinherbers , Jürgen König , Ralf Schützhold , Nikodem Szpak

We examine the properties of a one-dimensional (1D) Fermi gas with attractive intrinsic (Hubbard) interactions in the presence of spin-orbit coupling and Zeeman field by numerically computing the pair binding energy, excitation gap, and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-09-23 Monalisa Singh Roy , Manoranjan Kumar , Jay D. Sau , Sumanta Tewari

We measure pressure and entropy of ultracold fermionic atoms in an optical lattice for a range of interaction strengths, temperatures and fillings. Our measurements demonstrate that, for low enough temperatures, entropy-rich regions form…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-15 E. Cocchi , L. A. Miller , J. H. Drewes , C. F. Chan , D. Pertot , F. Brennecke , M. Köhl