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Quantum information processing requires fast manipulations of quantum systems in order to overcome dissipative effects. We propose a method to accelerate quantum dynamics and obtain a target state in a shorter time relative to unmodified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-28 Shumpei Masuda , Jacob Koenig , Gary A. Steele

A recent work [Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 110602] showed that among a pair of \textit{thermodynamically} equidistant quenches from a colder and a hotter initial state at a fixed ambient temperature, the relaxation from the colder initial state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-30 Sreekanth K Manikandan

The finite parts of a large, locally interacting many-body system prepared out-of-equilibrium eventually equilibrate. Characterising the underlying mechanisms of this process and its timescales, however, is particularly hard as it requires…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-11 Katja Klobas , Colin Rylands , Bruno Bertini

We consider the thermal relaxation of a particle in a piecewise-constant potential landscape subject to thermal fluctuations in the overdamped limit. We study the connection between the occurrence of the Mpemba effect, the presence of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-12-08 Matthew Walker , Marija Vucelja

In this work, we develop a mathematical framework to model a quantum system whose Hamiltonian may depend on the state of changing environment, that evolves according to a Markovian process. When the environment changes its state, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-17 Henryk Gzyl

The entanglement asymmetry is an observable independent tool to investigate the relaxation of quantum many body systems through the restoration of an initially broken symmetry of the dynamics. In this paper we use this to investigate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-09-16 Colin Rylands , Eric Vernier , Pasquale Calabrese

We present here a brief overview of our work in developing a convolutionless quantum master equation approach suitable for mesoscopic sized systems. Our final equation can be used in the regimes where the golden rule approach is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2007-05-23 Eric R. Bittner , Andrey Pereverzev

The Quantum Mpemba Effect (QME) -- the counter-intuitive phenomenon where states further from equilibrium can relax faster than those closer to it -- challenges standard expectations of quantum thermalization. In this work, we introduce…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-11 Cameron Beetar , Jeff Murugan , Hendrik J. R. van Zyl

We investigate the effects of dissipation on the quantum dynamics of many-body systems at quantum transitions, especially considering those of the first order. This issue is studied within the paradigmatic one-dimensional quantum Ising…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-12-08 Giovanni Di Meglio , Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

We model the dynamics of a closed quantum system brought out of mechanical equilibrium, undergoing a non-driven, spontaneous, thermodynamic transformation. In particular, we consider a quantum particle in a box with a moving and insulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Sofia Sgroi , Mauro Paternostro

We provide a systematic framework for constructing generic models of nonequilibrium quantum dynamics with a target stationary (mixed) state. Our framework identifies (almost) all combinations of Hamiltonian and dissipative dynamics that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-29 Jinkang Guo , Oliver Hart , Chi-Fang Chen , Aaron J. Friedman , Andrew Lucas

The Mpemba effect originally referred to the observation that, under certain thermalizing dynamics, initially hotter samples can cool faster than colder ones. This effect has since been generalized to other anomalous relaxation behaviors…

Quantum sensors based on critical many-body systems are known to exhibit enhanced sensing capability. Such enhancements typically scale algebraically with the probe size. Going beyond algebraic advantage and reaching exponential scaling has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Saubhik Sarkar , Abolfazl Bayat , Sougato Bose , Roopayan Ghosh

We study discrete quantum dynamics where single evolution step consists of unitary system transformation followed by decoherence via coupling to an environment. Often non-Markovian memory effects are attributed to structured environments…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Kimmo Luoma , Jyrki Piilo

We investigate the short time quantum critical dynamics in the imaginary time relaxation processes of finite size systems. Universal scaling behaviors exist in the imaginary time evolution and in particular, the system undergoes a critical…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-09-20 Yu-Rong Shu , Shuai Yin , Dao-Xin Yao

In the case of quantum systems interacting with multiple environments, the time-evolution of the reduced density matrix is described by the Liouvillian. For a variety of physical observables, the long-time limit or steady state solution is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Rodrigo A. Vargas-Hernández , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Kenneth A. Jung , Paul Brumer

Solving the ground state and the ground-state properties of quantum many-body systems is generically a hard task for classical algorithms. For a family of Hamiltonians defined on an $m$-dimensional space of physical parameters, the ground…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-13 Yanming Che , Clemens Gneiting , Franco Nori

A finite-dimensional quantum system is coupled to a bath of oscillators in thermal equilibrium at temperature $T>0$. We show that for fixed, small values of the coupling constant $\lambda$, the true reduced dynamics of the system is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-05 Marco Merkli

Non-Markovian effects in the evolution of open quantum systems have recently attracted widespread interest, particularly in the context of assessing the efficiency of energy and charge transfer in nanoscale biomolecular networks and quantum…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2016-02-10 S. Oviedo-Casado , J. Prior , A. W. Chin , R. Rosenbach , S. F. Huelga , M. B. Plenio

Relaxation rates provide important characteristics both for classical and quantum processes. Essentially they control how fast the system thermalizes, equilibrates, {decoheres, and/or dissipates}. Moreover, very often they are directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Gen Kimura , Dariusz Chruściński