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Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Subhashish Banerjee , V. Ravishankar , R. Srikanth

We present a review of recent research on quantum entanglement, with special emphasis on entanglement between single atoms, processing of an encoded entanglement and its temporary evolution. Analysis based on the density matrix formalism…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Zbigniew Ficek

Entanglement asymmetry -- used here as a direct probe of symmetry restoration -- provides a sharp diagnostic of post-quench dynamics. We test this idea in the complex Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev model with a conserved U(1) charge. Using exact…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-10-09 Sizheng Cao , Xian-Hui Ge

Classical thermodynamics is built with the concept of equilibrium states. However, it is less clear how equilibrium thermodynamics emerges through the dynamics that follows the principle of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Md. Manirul Ali , Wei-Ming Huang , Wei-Min Zhang

Environments in quantum thermodynamics usually take the role of heat baths. These baths are Markovian, weakly coupled to the system, and initialized in a thermal state. Whenever one of these properties is missing, standard quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Alessandra Colla , Heinz-Peter Breuer

Quantum imaginary-time evolution (QITE) is a fundamental framework for preparing ground and thermal states, yet its computational cost scales significantly with the evolution duration $\tau$. Reducing this duration is critical for practical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yumeng Zeng , Jeongrak Son , Mile Gu , Xiao Yuan

A hot Markovian system can cool down faster than a colder one: this is known as the Mpemba effect. Here, we show that a non-equilibrium driving via stochastic reset can induce this phenomenon, when absent. Moreover, we derive an optimal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-08 Daniel Maria Busiello , Deepak Gupta , Amos Maritan

Quantum thermalization occurs in a broad class of systems from elementary particles to complex materials. Out-of-equilibrium quantum systems have long been understood to either thermalize or retain memory of their initial states, but not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-20 Luheng Zhao , Prithvi Raj Datla , Weikun Tian , Mohammad Mujahid Aliyu , Huanqian Loh

I suggest that the origin of the Mpemba effect (the freezing of hot water before cold) is freezing-point depression by solutes, either gaseous or solid, whose solubility decreases with increasing temperature so that they are removed when…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2017-01-30 J. I. Katz

The cooling effects of a quantum LC circuit coupled inductively with an ensemble of artificial qubits are investigated. The particles may decay independently or collectively through their interaction with the environmental vacuum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Mihai A. Macovei

New exact results about the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open quantum systems at arbitrary timescales are obtained by considering all possible variations of initial conditions of a system, its environment, and correlations between them.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Paul M. Riechers , Mile Gu

We find analytically the complete set of eigenvalues and eigenvectors associated with Metropolis dynamics on a complete graph. As an application, we use this information to study a counter-intuitive relaxation phenomenon, called the Mpemba…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-02-07 Israel Klich , Marija Vucelja

We investigate the equilibration and thermalization properties of quantum systems interacting with a finite dimensional environment. By exploiting the concept of time averaged states, we introduce a completely positive map which allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 A. Smirne , E. -M. Laine , H. -P. Breuer , J. Piilo , B. Vacchini

We study the entanglement dynamics of multi-qubit systems coupled to a common dissipative environment, focusing on systems with one or two initially excited qubits. Using the Lindblad master equation, we derive the time evolution of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-15 Z. Bakhshi , E. Morsheddoost , A. Zeynali

We study the relaxation of a quantum system towards the thermal equilibrium using tools developed within the context of quantum information theory. We consider a model in which the system is a qubit, and reaches equilibrium after several…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Valerio Scarani , Mario Ziman , Peter Stelmachovic , Nicolas Gisin , Vladimir Buzek

A thermal field, which frequently appears in problems of decoherence, provides us with minimal information about the field. We study the interaction of the thermal field and a quantum system composed of two qubits and find that such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 M. S. Kim , J. Lee , D. Ahn , P. L. Knight

The non-Markovian dynamics of quantum entanglement is studied by the Shabani-Lidar master equation when one of entangled quantum systems is coupled to a local reservoir with memory effects. The completely positive reduced dynamical map can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Xiang Hao , Jinqiao Sha , Jian Sun , Shiqun Zhu

Based on the exact dynamics of a two-qubit system and environment, we investigate system-environment (SE) quantum and classical correlations. The coupling is chosen to represent a dephasing channel for one of the qubits and the environment…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-16 A. C. S. Costa , M. W. Beims , W. T. Strunz

Results on heat current, entropy production rate and entanglement are reported for a quantum system coupled to two different temperature heat reservoirs. By applying a temperature gradient, different quantum states can be found with exactly…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Luis Quiroga , Ferney J. Rodriguez , Maria E. Ramirez , Roberto Paris

We highlight a dynamical anomaly in which the rate of relaxation towards thermal equilibrium in a bi-partite quantum system violates the standard linear-response (Kubo) formulation, even when the underlying dynamics is highly chaotic. This…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-02-26 Christine Khripkov , Amichay Vardi , Doron Cohen