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Effective Field Theory (EFT) provides a powerful framework that exploits a separation of scales in physical systems to perform systematically improvable, model-independent calculations. Particularly interesting are few-body systems with…

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Overview of the recent advances in description of the few two-component fermions is presented. The model of zero-range interaction is generally considered to discuss the principal aspects of the few-body dynamics. Particular attention is…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2014-04-02 O. I. Kartavtsev , A. V. Malykh

We derive a closed equation of motion for the current density of an inhomogeneous quantum many-body system under the assumption that the time-dependent wave function can be described as a geometric deformation of the ground-state wave…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-14 Xianlong Gao , Jianmin Tao , G. Vignale , I. V. Tokatly

In this article we derive and test the fluctuating hydrodynamic description of active particles interacting via taxis and quorum sensing, both for mono-disperse systems and for mixtures of co-existing species of active particles. We compute…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-14 Alberto Dinelli , Jérémy O'Byrne , Julien Tailleur

One of the most important goals in quantum thermodynamics is to demonstrate advantages of thermodynamic protocols over their classical counterparts. For that, it is necessary to (i) develop theoretical tools and experimental set-ups to deal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Elisa Bäumer , Matteo Lostaglio , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Rui Sampaio

In the supercritical fluid (SCF) region, at temperatures and pressures above the critical point, the thermodynamic singularity separating liquids and gases no longer exists. Recent arguments based on thermodynamics and critical scalings…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-23 Sha Jin , Xinyang Li , Xue Fan , Matteo Baggioli , Yuliang Jin

The emergence of irreversibility in physical processes, despite the fundamentally reversible nature of quantum mechanics, remains an open question in physics. This thesis explores the intricate relationship between quantum mechanics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Alberto Rolandi

The climate is a forced and dissipative nonlinear system featuring non-trivial dynamics of a vast range of spatial and temporal scales. The understanding of the climate's structural and multiscale properties is crucial for the provision of…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 Valerio Lucarini , Richard Blender , Corentin Herbert , Salvatore Pascale , Francesco Ragone , Jeroen Wouters

The statistics of fluctuations on large regions of space encodes universal properties of many-body systems. At equilibrium, it is described by thermodynamics. However, away from equilibrium such as after quantum quenches, the fundamental…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-01 David X. Horvath , Benjamin Doyon , Paola Ruggiero

We report on experimental studies on the collective behavior of a strongly interacting Fermi gas with tunable interactions and variable temperature. A scissors mode excitation in an elliptical trap is used to characterize the dynamics of…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-24 M. J. Wright , S. Riedl , A. Altmeyer , C. Kohstall , E. R. Sanchez Guajardo , J. Hecker Denschlag , R. Grimm

The evolution of quantum gases, released from traps, are studied through hydrodynamics, both analytically and numerically, in one and two dimensions. In particular, we demonstrate the existence of long time self-similar solutions of the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-04 Ritwik Mukherjee , Abhishek Dhar , Manas Kulkarni , Samriddhi Sankar Ray

Advances in controlling and measuring systems of ultra-cold atoms provided strong motivation to theoretical investigations of quantum dynamics in closed many-body systems. Fundamental questions on quantum dynamics and statistical mechanics…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-12-04 Ehud Altman

At its core, hydrodynamics is a many-body low-energy effective theory for the long-wavelength, long-timescale dynamics of conserved charges in systems close to thermodynamic equilibrium. It has a wide range of applications spanning from…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-08-22 Luca Martinoia

Heat and work in thermodynamics refer to the measurement of changes in energy content of external bodies (baths and agents). We discuss the implications of quantum mechanics on the possibility to measure work in a mesoscopic context. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-15 Anant Vijay Varma , Doron Cohen

The theory of real-time quantum many-body dynamics as put forward in Ref. [arXiv:0710.4627] is evaluated in detail. The formulation is based on a generating functional of correlation functions where the Keldysh contour is closed at a given…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-02-09 Thomas Gasenzer , Stefan Kessler , Jan M. Pawlowski

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

Quantum many-body systems can exhibit distinct regimes where dynamics is either ergodic, dynamically exploring an extensive region of available state-space, or non-ergodic, where the dynamics may be restricted. An example is the many-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Venelin P. Pavlov , Peter A. Ivanov , Diego Porras , Charlie Nation

We provide a stochastic thermodynamic description across scales for $N$ identical units with all-to-all interactions that are driven away from equilibrium by different reservoirs and external forces. We start at the microscopic level with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-07-07 Tim Herpich , Tommaso Cossetto , Gianmaria Falasco , Massimiliano Esposito

Due to the presence of strong correlations, theoretical or experimental investigations of quantum many-body systems belong to the most challenging tasks in modern physics. Stimulated by tensor networks, we propose a scheme of constructing…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-10-17 Shi-Ju Ran , Angelo Piga , Cheng Peng , Gang Su , Maciej Lewenstein

The relationship between many-body interactions and dimensionality is integral to numerous emergent quantum phenomena. A striking example is the Bose gas, which upon confinement to one dimension (1D) obeys an infinite set of conservation…