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We investigate the dynamics of a qubit chain locally coupled to a thermal reservoir, modeled through repeated collisions with particles drawn from a heat bath. Under suitable conditions, the resulting Lindblad equation is thermodynamically…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Jorge Tabanera-Bravo , Massimiliano Esposito , Felipe Barra , Juan M. R. Parrondo

In this article, we study the thermalizability of a system consisting of two atoms in a circular, transversely harmonic waveguide in the multimode regime. While showing some signatures of the quantum-chaotic behavior, the system fails to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2010-06-01 V. A. Yurovsky , M. Olshanii

We study the nonequilibrium properties of an electronic circuit composed of a double quantum dot (DQD) channel coupled to a quantum point contact (QPC) within the framework of stochastic thermodynamics. We show that the transition rates…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito

We study sudden quantum quenches in which the initial states are selected to be either eigenstates of an integrable Hamiltonian that is nonmappable to a noninteracting one or a nonintegrable Hamiltonian, while the Hamiltonian after the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-04-15 Kai He , Marcos Rigol

Quantum systems driven by a time-periodic field are a platform of condensed matter physics where effective (quasi)stationary states, termed "Floquet states", can emerge with external-field-dressed quasiparticles during driving. They appear,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-27 Naoto Tsuji

We study thermalization in open quantum systems using the Lindblad formalism. A method that both thermalizes and couples to Lindblad operators only at edges of the system is introduced. Our method leads to a Gibbs state of the system,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-04-11 Israel Reichental , Anat Klempner , Yariv Kafri , Daniel Podolsky

The Fluctuation Relation for a stationary state, kept at constant energy by a deterministic thermostat - the Gallavotti-Cohen Theorem -- relies on the ergodic properties of the system considered. We show that when perturbed by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Jorge Kurchan

We propose a fully operational framework to study the non-equilibrium thermodynamics of a quantum system $S$ that is coupled to a detector $D$ whose state is continuously monitored, allowing to single out individual quantum trajectories of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 P. G. Di Stefano , J. J. Alonso , E. Lutz , G. Falci , M. Paternostro

We revisist the issue of entanglement of thermal equilibrium states in composite quantum systems. The possible scenarios are exemplified in bipartite qubit/qubit and qubit/qutrit systems.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 O. Osenda , G. A. Raggio

The DQC1 complexity class, or power of one qubit model, is examined as an open quantum system. We study the dynamics of a register of qubits carrying out a DQC1 algorithm and show that, for any algorithm in the complexity class, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-17 Jake Xuereb , Steve Campbell , John Goold , André Xuereb

This paper introduces a new formalism for quantum cellular automata (QCAs), based on evolving tensor products of qubits using local unitary operators. It subsequently uses this formalism to analyze and validate several conjectures, stemming…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-03 Ruhi Shah , Jonathan Gorard

Heath-bath effects in the dynamics of atom + cavity system are studied. The temperature effects are explored using thermofield dynamics formalism. It is found that the dynamics of the system is sensitive to small changes in the temperature…

This thesis describes several topics related to finite temperature studies of strongly correlated systems: finite temperature density matrix embedding theory (FT-DMET), finite temperature metal-insulator transition, and quantum algorithms…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-03-01 Chong Sun

Understanding how isolated quantum many-body systems thermalize remains a central question in modern physics. We study the onset of ergodicity in a two-dimensional disordered Heisenberg Floquet model using digital quantum simulation on…

Proving thermalization from the unitary evolution of a closed quantum system is one of the oldest questions that is still nowadays only partially resolved. Several efforts have led to various formulations of what is called the eigenstate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Christian Bertoni , Clara Wassner , Giacomo Guarnieri , Jens Eisert

We consider the dynamics of local entropy and nearest neighbor mutual information of a 1-D lattice of qubits via the repeated application of nearest neighbor CNOT quantum gates. This is a quantum version of a cellular automaton. We analyze…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-01 David Berenstein , Jiayao Zhao

The quantum ferromagnetic transition at zero temperature in disordered itinerant electron systems is considered. Nonmagnetic quenched disorder leads to diffusive electron dynamics that induces an effective long-range interaction between the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-28 T. R. Kirkpatrick , D. Belitz

Entanglement entropy is a fundamental diagnostic for quantum chaos, typically exhibiting volume-law scaling in highly excited eigenstates of chaotic many-body systems. In this work, we present a striking counterexample: a Floquet-driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Chunyin Chen , Sizhe Yan , Biao Wu

We map the infinite-range coupled quantum kicked rotors over an infinite-range coupled interacting bosonic model. In this way we can apply exact diagonalization up to quite large system sizes and confirm that the system tends to ergodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Angelo Russomanno , Michele Fava , Rosario Fazio

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