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We assess precision thermometry for an arbitrary single quantum system. For a $d$-dimensional harmonic system we show that the gap sets a single temperature that can be optimally estimated. Furthermore, we establish a simple linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-06 Steve Campbell , Marco G. Genoni , Sebastian Deffner

We briefly review some equilibrium and nonequilibrium properties of systems with long-range interactions. Such systems, which are characterized by a potential that weakly decays at large distances, have striking properties at equilibrium,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Ruffo

Searching for nonthermalized dynamics in interacting quantum systems is not only of fundamental theoretical interest in nonequilibrium quantum physics, but also of immense practical significance in quantum information processing. In this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-02-26 Yikai Chen , Zi Cai

Interactions between a quantum system and its environment at low temperatures can lead to violations of thermal laws for the system. The source of these violations is the entanglement between system and environment, which prevents the…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-20 Nathan S. Williams , Karyn Le Hur , Andrew N. Jordan

We show how the local temperature of out-of-equilibrium, quantum electron systems can be consistently defined with the help of an external voltage and temperature probe. We determine sufficient conditions under which the temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 J. Meair , J. P. Bergfield , C. A. Stafford , Ph. Jacquod

We introduce "local uncertainty relations" in thermal many body systems. Using these relations, we derive basic bounds. These results include the demonstration of universal non-relativistic speed limits (regardless of interaction range),…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-14 Zohar Nussinov , Saurish Chakrabarty

Long-range interacting systems such as nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond and trapped ions serve as useful experimental setups to probe a range of nonequilibrium many-body phenomena. In particular, via driving, various effective…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2018-05-16 Wen Wei Ho , Ivan Protopopov , Dmitry A. Abanin

Hybrid quantum systems consisting of a collection of N spin-1/2 particles uniformly interacting with an electromagnetic field, such as one confined in a cavity, are important for the development of quantum information processors and will be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Lane G. Gunderman , Troy Borneman , David G. Cory

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

We review various bounds concerning out-of-equilibrium dynamics in few-level and many-body quantum systems. We primarily focus on closed quantum systems but will also mention some related results for open quantum systems and classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-22 Zongping Gong , Ryusuke Hamazaki

The dynamics of quantum systems strongly depends on the local structure of the Hamiltonian. For short-range interacting systems, the well-known Lieb-Robinson bound defines the effective light cone with an exponentially small error with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-31 Tomotaka Kuwahara

What happens when one of the parameters governing the dynamics of a long-range interacting system of particles in thermal equilibrium is abruptly changed (quenched) to a different value? While a short-range system, under the same…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 Shamik Gupta , Lapo Casetti

The ultimate precision of any measurement of the temperature of a quantum system is the inverse of the local quantum thermal susceptibility [De Pasquale et al., Nature Communications 7, 12782 (2016)] of the subsystem with whom the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-24 Giacomo De Palma , Antonella De Pasquale , Vittorio Giovannetti

We report analytic results for the correlation functions of long-range quantum Ising models in arbitrary dimension. In particular, we focus on the long-time evolution and the relevant timescales on which correlations relax to their…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-22 Michael Kastner , Mauritz van den Worm

Quantum entanglement is considered, by and large, to be a very delicate and non-robust phenomenon that is very hard to maintain in the presence of noise, or non-zero temperatures. In recent years however, and motivated, in part, by a quest…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-27 Lior Eldar

Recent progress in manipulating atomic and condensed matter systems has instigated a surge of interest in non-equilibrium physics, including many-body dynamics of trapped ultracold atoms and ions, near-field radiative heat transfer, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 F. Intravaia , R. O. Behunin , C. Henkel , K. Busch , D. A. R. Dalvit

Simulations are performed of a small quantum system interacting with a quantum environment. The system consists of various initial states of two harmonic oscillators coupled to give normal modes. The environment is "designed" by its level…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-15 George L. Barnes , Michael E. Kellman

When quantum information is spread over a system through nonclassical correlation, it makes retrieving information by local measurements difficult---making global measurement necessary for optimal parameter estimation. In this paper, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-13 Akira Sone , Quntao Zhuang , Paola Cappellaro

How a closed interacting quantum many-body system relaxes and dephases as a function of time is a fundamental question in thermodynamic and statistical physics. In this work, we analyse and observe the persistent temporal fluctuations after…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-22 Harvey B. Kaplan , Lingzhen Guo , Wen Lin Tan , Arinjoy De , Florian Marquardt , Guido Pagano , Christopher Monroe