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Accurately evaluating finite-temperature properties of quantum many-body systems remains a central challenge. Many existing quantum approaches typically require thermal-state preparation at each target temperature, making low-temperature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-15 Hiroto Yamamoto , Katsuhiro Morita

We investigate the limits of thermometry using quantum probes at thermal equilibrium within the Bayesian approach. We consider the possibility of engineering interactions between the probes in order to enhance their sensitivity, as well as…

Many quantum technologies, including quantum computers, quantum heat engines, and quantum sensors, rely on operating conditions in the subkelvin regime. It is therefore desirable to develop practical tools and methods for the precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Riya Baruah , Pedro Portugal , Joachim Wabnig , Christian Flindt

We address estimation of temperature for finite quantum systems at thermal equilibrium and show that the Landau bound to precision $\delta T^2 \propto T^2$, originally derived for a classical {\em not too small} system being a portion of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Matteo G. A. Paris

Temperature determines the relative probability of observing a physical system in an energy state when that system is energetically in equilibrium with its environment. In this paper, we present a theory for engineering the temperature of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-09 Alireza Shabani , Hartmut Neven

Accurate temperature estimation in the quantum and cryogenic regimes remains a fundamental challenge. Here, we investigate nonequilibrium quantum thermometry using a single-qubit probe coupled to a bosonic bath through noncommuting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Youssef Aiache , Abderrahim El Allati , İlkay Demir , Khadija El Anouz

Classical thermodynamics is built with the concept of equilibrium states. However, it is less clear how equilibrium thermodynamics emerges through the dynamics that follows the principle of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Md. Manirul Ali , Wei-Ming Huang , Wei-Min Zhang

Near-equilibrium thermal detectors operate as classical calorimeters, with energy deposition and internal equilibration times short compared to the thermal time constant of the device. Advances in fabrication techniques, cryogenics, and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-06-26 Dan McCammon

The precise measurement of low temperatures is a challenging, important and fundamental task for quantum science. In particular, in-situ thermometry is highly desirable for cold atomic systems due to their potential for quantum simulation.…

We unveil a fundamental temperature bias in transient quantum thermometry under Markovian dynamics. For qubit probes evolving in a thermal Markovian environment, we prove that transient precision beyond the steady-state benchmark can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Debarupa Saha , Ujjwal Sen

The precision of nonequilibrium thermodynamic systems is fundamentally limited, yet how quantum coherence shapes these limits remains largely unexplored. A general theoretical framework is introduced that explicitly links quantum coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Shanhe Su , Cong Fu , Ousi Pan , Shihao Xia , Fei Liu , Jincan Chen

Quantum metrology aims to enhance measurement precision beyond the classical limit by leveraging quantum resources. Unlike multi-parameter dynamic quantum metrology, many questions regarding multiparameter quantum metrology at thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Zhu Cao

We theoretically study how one can control and enhance nonlinear thermoelectricity by regulating quantum coherence in nanostructures such as a quantum dot system or a single-molecule junction. In nanostructures, the typical temperature…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Nobuhiko Taniguchi

Measuring the local temperature of nanoscale systems out of equilibrium has emerged as a new tool to study local heating effects and other local thermal properties of systems driven by external fields. Although various experimental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 LvZhou Ye , Xiao Zheng , YiJing Yan , Massimiliano Di Ventra

Equilibrium probes have been widely used in various noisy quantum metrology schemes. However, such an equilibrium-probe-based metrology scenario severely suffers from the low-temperature-error divergence problem in the weak-coupling regime.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-28 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Hong-Gang Luo , Wei Wu

We present a unified approach to study continuous measurement based quantum thermal machines in static as well as adiabatically driven systems. We investigate both steady state and transient dynamics for the time-independent case. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-11 Bibek Bhandari , Andrew N. Jordan

We describe a numerical scheme for exactly simulating the heat current behavior in a quantum harmonic chain with self-consistent reservoirs. Numerically-exact results are compared to classical simulations and to the quantum behavior under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Malay Bandyopadhyay , Dvira Segal

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a separate sub-discipline, revising the concepts and laws of thermodynamics, at the quantum scale. In particular, there has been a disruptive shift in the way thermometry, and thermometers are perceived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 Wai-Keong Mok , Kishor Bharti , Leong-Chuan Kwek , Abolfazl Bayat

The precise knowledge of the temperature of an ultracold lattice gas simulating a strongly correlated system is a question of both, fundamental and technological importance. Here, we address such question by combining tools from quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-08 Mohammad Mehboudi , Maria Moreno-Cardoner , Gabriele De Chiara , Anna Sanpera

Using the quantum Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound from quantum estimation theory, we derive a fundamental quantum limit on the sensitivity of a temperature measurement of a thermal astronomical source. This limit is expressed in terms of the source…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-29 Ranjith Nair , Mankei Tsang