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The thermodynamics of quantum systems driven out of equilibrium has attracted increasing attention in last the decade, in connection with quantum information and statistical physics, and with a focus on non-classical signatures. While a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Gonzalo Manzano , Roberta Zambrini

We show that certain coherences, termed as heat-exchange coherences, which contribute to the thermalization process of a quantum probe in a repeated interactions scheme, can modify the spectral response of the probe system. We suggest to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-20 Ricardo Román-Ancheyta , Barış Çakmak , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We investigate a quasi-adiabatic thermal process for preparing finite-temperature ensembles in the thermodynamic limit. The process gradually transforms a thermal ensemble of a noninteracting system into that of an interacting system of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-12 Tatsuhiko Shirai

We investigate a class of periodically driven many-body systems that allows us to extend the phenomenon of prethermalization to the vicinity of isolated intermediate-to-low drive frequencies away from the high-frequency limit. We provide…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-05-05 Christoph Fleckenstein , Marin Bukov

We analyze the dynamics of entanglement entropy in a generic quantum many-body open system from the perspective of quantum information and error corrections. We introduce a random unitary circuit model with intermittent projective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Soonwon Choi , Yimu Bao , Xiao-Liang Qi , Ehud Altman

Entanglement within a given device provides a potential resource for quantum information processing. Entanglement between system and environment leads to decoherence (thus suppressing non-classical features within the system) but also opens…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Guenter Mahler , Jochen Gemmer , Mathias Michel

Creating stable superposed states of matter is one of the most intriguing aspects of quantum physics, leading to a variety of counter-intuitive scenarios along with a possibility of restructuring the way we understand, process and…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-11-13 Arif Warsi Laskar , Niharika Singh , Pratik Adhikary , Arunabh Mukherjee , Saikat Ghosh

The pseudogap Kondo problem, describing a magnetic impurity embedded in an electronic environment with a power-law density of states, displays continuous quantum phase transitions between free and screened moment phases. In this paper we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Lars Fritz , Serge Florens , Matthias Vojta

A quantum engine fueled by quantum measurement is proposed. Under the finite-time adiabatic driving regime, the conversion of heat to work is realized without the compression and expansion of the resonance frequency. The work output,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Shanhe Su , Zhiyuan Lin , Jincan Chen

In this work, we develop a generalisation of the thermal entropy to complex inverse temperatures, which we call the thermal pseudo-entropy. We show that this quantity represents the pseudo-entropy of the transition matrix between…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-20 Pawel Caputa , Bowen Chen , Tadashi Takayanagi , Takashi Tsuda

Thermal equilibrium states of many-body Hamiltonians are essential for probing quantum chaos, finite-temperature phases of matter, and training quantum machine learning models, yet generating large collections of such states across…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-20 Jiyu Jiang , Mingrui Jing , Jizhe Lai , Xin Wang , Lei Zhang

Scrambling unitary dynamics in a quantum system transmutes local quantum information into a non-local web of correlations which manifests itself in a complex spatio-temporal pattern of entanglement. In such a context, we show there can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-02 Alan Sherry , Sthitadhi Roy

A large class of isolated quantum system in a pure state can equilibrate and serve as a heat bath. We show that once the equilibrium is reached, any of its subsystems that is much smaller than the isolated system is thermalized such that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-06-13 Quntao Zhuang , Biao Wu

We introduce and study dynamical probes of band structure topology in the post-quench time-evolution from mixed initial states of quantum many-body systems. Our construction generalizes the notion of dynamical quantum phase transitions…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-29 M. Heyl , J. C. Budich

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

An exact reduced dynamical map along with its operator sum representation is derived for a central spin interacting with a thermal spin environment. The dynamics of the central spin shows high sustainability of quantum traits such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-23 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Avijit Misra , Arun Kumar Pati

Thermal operations are an operational model of non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics. In the absence of coherence between energy levels, exact state transition conditions under thermal operations are known in terms of a mathematical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-11 Varun Narasimhachar , Gilad Gour

Thermalization in highly excited quantum many-body system does not necessarily mean a complete memory loss of the way the system was formed. This effect may pave a way for a quantum computing, with a large number of qubits $n\simeq…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-19 M. Bienert , J. Flores , S. Yu. Kun , T. H. Seligman

A wave function exposed to measurements undergoes pure state dynamics, with deterministic unitary and probabilistic measurement induced state updates, defining a quantum trajectory. For many-particle systems, the competition of these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-02 M. Buchhold , Y. Minoguchi , A. Altland , S. Diehl

The interplay of quantum and thermal fluctuations in the vicinity of a quantum critical point characterizes the physics of strongly correlated systems. Here we investigate this interplay from a quantum information perspective presenting the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2018-10-30 Marco Gabbrielli , Augusto Smerzi , Luca Pezzè