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We study quantum Brownian motion (QBM) models for a particle in a dissipative environment coupled to a periodic potential. We review QBM for a particle in a one-dimensional periodic potential and extend the study to that for a particle in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-29 Grace H. Zhang

The motion of a quantum particle hopping on a simple cubic lattice under the influence of thermal noise and of a static random potential is expected to be diffusive, i.e., the particle is expected to exhibit `quantum Brownian motion', no…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-09-22 Jürg Fröhlich , Jeffrey Schenker

We study the Quantum Brownian motion of a charged particle moving in a harmonic potential in the presence of an uniform external magnetic field and linearly coupled to an Ohmic bath through momentum variables. We analyse the growth of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-31 Suraka Bhattacharjee , Urbashi Satpathi , Supurna Sinha

Estimating transition rates in open quantum systems is hampered by computing-resource demands that grow rapidly with system size. We present a quantum-simulation framework that enables efficient estimation by recasting the transition rate,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-16 Robson Christie , Kyunghyun Baek , Jeongho Bang , Jaewoo Joo

An alternative equilibrium stochastic dynamics for a Brownian particle in inhomogeneous space is derived. Such a dynamics can model the motion of a complex molecule in its conformation space when in equilibrium with a uniform heat bath. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-20 A. Bhattacharyay

Einstein's Brownian motion of a quantum particle in a classical environment is studied via virial and equipartition theorems. The effect of continuous measurement in a strongly dissipative environment is accounted for and a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-13 R. Tsekov

We introduce a model of the quantum Brownian motion coupled to a classical neat bath by using the operator differential proposed in the quantum analysis. We then define the heat operator by adapting the idea of the stochastic energetics.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-18 T. Koide

Fluctuation and dissipation are by-products of coupling to the `environment.' The Caldeira-Leggett model, a successful paradigm of quantum Brownian motion, views the environment as a collection of harmonic oscillators linearly coupled to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-04-28 Mohammad F. Maghrebi , Matthias Krüger , Mehran Kardar

We show how the quantum analog of the Fokker-Planck equation for describing Brownian motion can be obtained as the diffusive limit of the quantum linear Boltzmann equation. The latter describes the quantum dynamics of a tracer particle in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-20 Bassano Vacchini , Klaus Hornberger

It has long been recognized that the dynamics of linear quantum systems is classical in the Wigner representation. Yet many conceptually important linear problems are typically analyzed using such generally applicable techniques as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-04 James Anglin , Salman Habib

The quantum analog of the joint probability distributions describing a classical stochastic process is introduced. A prescription is given for constructing the quantum distribution associated with a sequence of measurements. For the case of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. W. Ford , R. F. O'Connell

We investigate a quantum metrological protocol operating in a non-Markovian environment by employing the quantum Brownian motion (QBM) model, in which the system is linearly coupled to a reservoir of harmonic oscillators. Specifically, we…

We explore dissipative quantum tunnelling, a phenomenon central to various physical and chemical processes, using a double-well potential model. This paper aims to bridge gaps in understanding the crossover from thermal activation to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-16 Robson Christie , Jessica Eastman

We consider a quantum particle coupled (with strength $\la$) to a spatial array of independent non-interacting reservoirs in thermal states (heat baths). Under the assumption that the reservoir correlations decay exponentially in time, we…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 W. De Roeck , J. Frohlich , A. Pizzo

For the purpose of understanding the quantum behavior such as quantum decoherence, fluctuations, dissipation, entanglement and teleportation of a mesoscopic or macroscopic object interacting with a general environment, we derive here a set…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-12-09 Chung-Hsien Chou , B. L. Hu , Ting Yu

Small quantum systems non-weakly coupled to a bath become in the quantum regime surrounded by a cloud of photons or phonons, which modifies their thermodynamic behavior. Exactly solvable examples are the Brownian motion of a quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-24 Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

Quantum non-Markovianity is crucially related to the study of dynamical maps, which are usually derived for initially factorized system-bath states. We here demonstrate that linear response theory also provides a way to derive dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-26 Philipp Strasberg , Massimiliano Esposito

We develop a Lindblad framework for quantum stochastic thermodynamics to study the nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open quantum systems. Our approach adopts the local quantum detailed balance condition, ensuring thermodynamic consistency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Jin-Fu Chen

At non-zero temperature classical systems exhibit statistical fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities arising from the variation of the system's initial conditions and its interaction with the environment. The fluctuating work, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Rui Sampaio , Samu Suomela , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Janet Anders , Thomas Philbin

We lay the theoretical and mathematical foundations of the square root of Browniam motion and we prove the existence of such a process. In doing so, we consider Brownian motion on quantized noncommutative Riemannian manifolds and show how a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-13 Marco Frasca , Alfonso Farina , Moawia Alghalith