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Markovian open many-body quantum systems display complicated relaxation dynamics. The spectral gap of the Liouvillian characterizes the asymptotic decay rate towards the stationary state, but it has recently been pointed out that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-30 Tatsuhiko Shirai , Takashi Mori

Entanglement asymmetry, which serves as a diagnostic tool for symmetry breaking and a proxy for thermalization, has recently been proposed and studied in the context of symmetry restoration for quantum many-body systems undergoing a quench.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-11 Shuo Liu , Hao-Kai Zhang , Shuai Yin , Shi-Xin Zhang

The interplay between symmetries and entanglement in out-of-equilibrium quantum systems is currently at the centre of an intense multidisciplinary research effort. Here we introduce a setting where these questions can be characterised…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-02-07 Alessandro Foligno , Pasquale Calabrese , Bruno Bertini

We present a general theory of classical metastability in open quantum systems. Metastability is a consequence of a large separation in timescales in the dynamics, leading to the existence of a regime when states of the system appear…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-20 Katarzyna Macieszczak , Dominic C. Rose , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan

The rate of the trace distance is used to evaluate quantum speed-up for arbitrary mixed states. Compared with some present methods, the approach based on trace distance can provide an optimal bound to the speed of the evolution. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-04 Xiang Hao , Wenjiong Wu

We investigate the conditions under which the trace distance between two different states of a given open system increases in time due to the interaction with an environment, therefore signalling non-Markovianity. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Andrea Smirne , Laura Mazzola , Mauro Paternostro , Bassano Vacchini

Metastability in open system dynamics describes the phenomena of initial relaxation to longlived metastable states before decaying to the asymptotic stable states. It has been predicted in continuous-time stochastic dynamics of both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Yuan-De Jin , Chu-Dan Qiu , Wen-Long Ma

Information scrambling refers to the phenomenon in which local quantum information in a many-body system becomes dispersed throughout the entire system under unitary evolution. It has been extensively studied in closed quantum systems,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Haolin Jiang , Pengfei Zhang

We study the nature of thermalization dynamics and the associated preparation (simulation) time under the repeated interaction protocol uncovering a generic anomalous, Mpemba-like trend. As a case study, we focus on a three-level system and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-01 Carlos Ramon-Escandell , Alessandro Prositto , Dvira Segal

Entanglement asymmetry is a quantity recently introduced to measure how much a symmetry is broken in a part of an extended quantum system. It has been employed to analyze the non-equilibrium dynamics of a broken symmetry after a global…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-01-23 Sara Murciano , Filiberto Ares , Israel Klich , Pasquale Calabrese

We study the thermalization dynamics of a quantum system embedded in an incommensurate potential and coupled to a Markovian thermal reservoir. The dephasing induced by the bath drives the system toward an infinite-temperature steady state,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-16 Mingdi Xu , Zijun Wei , Xiang-Ping Jiang , Lei Pan

Constraints in the dynamics of quantum many-body systems can dramatically alter transport properties and relaxation timescales even in the absence of static disorder. Here, we report on the observation of such constrained dynamics arising…

In closed generic many-body systems, unitary evolution disperses local quantum information into highly non-local objects, resulting in thermalization. Such a process is called information scrambling, whose swiftness is quantified by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-12 Pengfei Zhang , Zhenhua Yu

It is often supposed that a quantum system is not disturbed without state change. In a recent debate, this assumption is used to claim that the operator-based disturbance measure, a broadly used disturbance measure, has an unphysical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Masanao Ozawa

We want to understand how relaxation process from an initial non-generic state proceeds towards a long-time typical state reached under unitary quantum evolution. One would expect that after some initial correlation time relaxation will be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-10 Marko Znidaric

The partial trace operation is usually considered in composite quantum systems, to reduce the state on a single subsystem. This operation has a key role in the decoherence effect and quantum measurements. However, partial trace operations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-18 Quentin Ansel

The study of symmetry restoration has recently emerged as a fruitful means to extract high-level information on the relaxation of quantum many-body systems. However, while the restoration of internal symmetries has been investigated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-02 Molly Gibbins , Adam Gammon-Smith , Bruno Bertini

The time-dependent behavior of a two-level system interacting with a quantum oscillator system is analyzed in the case of a coupling larger than both the energy separation between the two levels and the energy of quantum oscillator ($\Omega…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-07-01 Titus Sandu

We construct a general measure for the degree of non-Markovian behavior in open quantum systems. This measure is based on the trace distance which quantifies the distinguishability of quantum states. It represents a functional of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-05 Heinz-Peter Breuer , Elsi-Mari Laine , Jyrki Piilo

The problem of quantifying the difference between evolutions of an open quantum system (in particular, between the actual evolution of an open system and the ideal target operation on the corresponding closed system) is important in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-18 Matthew D. Grace , Jason Dominy , Robert L. Kosut , Constantin Brif , Herschel Rabitz