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We consider a quantum harmonic oscillator coupled to a general nonequilibrium environment. We show that the decoherence factor can be expressed in terms of a measurable effective temperature, defined via a generalized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-25 Joseph Beer , Eric Lutz

We investigate the optimal control problem for non-Markovian open, dissipative quantum system. Optimal control using Pontryagin maximum principle is specifically derived. The influences of Ohmic reservoir with Lorentz-Drude regularization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-28 Wei Cui , Zairong Xi , Yu Pan

Coupling with an external environment inevitably affects the dynamics of a quantum system. Here, we consider how charging performances of a quantum battery, modelled as a two level system, are influenced by the presence of an Ohmic thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-09-03 Matteo Carrega , Alba Crescente , Dario Ferraro , Maura Sassetti

Starting from the formal solution to the Heisenberg equation, we revisit an universal model for a quantum open system with a harmonic oscillator linearly coupled to a boson bath. The analysis of the decay process for a Fock state and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 X. Xiao , Y. B. Gao

We calculate the geometric phase for an open system (spin-boson model) which interacts with an environment (ohmic or nonohmic) at arbitrary temperature. However there have been many assumptions about the time scale at which the geometric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fernando C. Lombardo , Paula I. Villar

Coupling to a thermal bath leads to decoherence of stored quantum information. For a system of Gaussian fermions, the fermionic analog of linear or Gaussian optics, these dynamics can be elegantly and efficiently described by evolution of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-02 Earl T. Campbell

We have developed a theoretical formalism to introduce temperature as a parameter into the framework of non-relativistic quantum mechanics using the laws of classical thermodynamics and the canonical ensemble scheme of statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Ashkan Shekaari , Mahmoud Jafari

We develop a general theory describing the thermodynamical behavior of open quantum systems coupled to thermal baths beyond perturbation theory. Our approach is based on the exact time-local quantum master equation for the reduced open…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-31 Alessandra Colla , Heinz-Peter Breuer

We study a distribution of thermal states given by random Hamiltonians with a local structure. We show that the ensemble of thermal states monotonically approaches the unitarily invariant ensemble with decreasing temperature if all…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-03 Yoshifumi Nakata , Tobias J. Osborne

We study systematically the non-Markovian decoherence dynamics of a dissipative two-level system, i.e., the so-called spin-boson model. It is interesting to find that the decoherence tends to be inhibited with the increase of the coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-04 Hai-Bin Liu , Jun-Hong An , Chong Chen , Qing-Jun Tong , Hong-Gang Luo , C. H. Oh

We investigate the quantum evolution of spin states of a single molecular magnet in a local electric field. The decoherence of a $\texttt{\{}\emph{Cu}_3\texttt{\}}$ single molecular magnet weakly coupled to a thermal bosonic environment can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Xiang Hao , Xiaoqun Wang , Chen Liu , Shiqun Zhu

Recent developments in nanoscale experimental techniques made it possible to utilize single molecule junctions as devices for electronics and energy transfer with quantum coherence playing an important role in their thermoelectric…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-12 Feng Chen , Yi Gao , Michael Galperin

In this paper, we examine the thermodynamic behavior of a quantum harmonic oscillator with a position-dependent mass (PDM), where spatial inhomogeneity is modeled through a deformation parameter {\alpha}. Based on the exact energy spectrum,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-23 Daniel Sabi Takou , Assimiou Yarou Mora , Gabriel Y. H. Avossevou

In thermodynamics, quantum coherences - superpositions between energy eigenstates - behave in distinctly nonclassical ways. Recently mathematical frameworks have emerged to account for these features and have provided a range of novel…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-26 Hyukjoon Kwon , Hyunseok Jeong , David Jennings , Benjamin Yadin , M. S. Kim

We report an anomalous decoherence phenomenon of a quantum dissipative system in the framework of a stochastic decoupling scheme along with a hierarchical equations-of-motion formalism without the usual Born-Markov or weak coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-22 Wei Wu , Hai-Qing Lin

Markovian regime decoherence effects in quantum computers are studied in terms of the fidelity for the situation where the number of qubits N becomes large. A general expression giving the decoherence time scale in terms of Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 B J Dalton

Open quantum systems are studied from the thermodynamical point of view unifying the principle of maximum informational entropy and the hypothesis of relaxation times hierarchy. The result of the unification is a non-Markovian and local in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-24 Vitalii Semin , Francesco Petruccione

A theory recently proposed by the author aims to explain decoherence and the thermodynamical behaviour of closed systems within a conservative, unitary, framework for quantum gravity by assuming that the operators tied to the gravitational…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2010-04-06 Bernard S. Kay

One of the main advantages expected from using quantum probes as thermometers is non invasiveness, i.e., a negligible perturbation to the thermal sample. However, invasiveness is rarely investigated explicitly. Here, focusing on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Francesco Albarelli , Matteo G. A. Paris , Bassano Vacchini , Andrea Smirne

The interplay of unitary evolution and local measurements in many-body systems gives rise to a stochastic state evolution and to measurement-induced phase transitions in the pure state entanglement. In realistic settings, however, this…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-23 B. Ladewig , S. Diehl , M. Buchhold