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We propose a thermodynamically consistent general-purpose model describing diffusion of a solute or a fluid in a solid undergoing possible phase transformations and damage, beside possible visco-inelastic processes. Also heat…

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The thermodynamics with medium effects expressed by the dispersion relation of the temperature and density dependent particle mass is studied. Many previous treatments have been reviewed. A new thermodynamical treatment based on the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 Shaoyu Yin , Ru-Keng Su

We solve the model of N quantum Brownian oscillators linearly coupled to an environment of quantum oscillators at finite temperature, with no extra assumptions about the structure of the system-environment coupling. Using a compact…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-06-29 C. H. Fleming , Albert Roura , B. L. Hu

Quantum Brownian motion model is a typical model in the study of nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics. Entropy is one of the most fundamental physical concepts in thermodynamics. In this work, by solving the quantum Langevin equation, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Tian Qiu , H. T. Quan

Using a generalized Langevin equation of motion, quantum ballistic thermal transport is obtained from classical molecular dynamics. This is possible because the heat baths are represented by random noises obeying quantum Bose-Einstein…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-10-16 Jian-Sheng Wang

We report the exact fundamental solution for Kramers equation associated to a brownian gas of charged particles, under the influence of homogeneous (spatially uniform) otherwise arbitrary, external mechanical, electrical and magnetic…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-10 Tania P. Simoes , Roberto E. Lagos

Lattice models are crucial for studying thermodynamic properties in many physical, biological and chemical systems. We investigate Lattice Restricted Primitive Model (LRPM) of electrolytes with different discretization parameters in order…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Maxim N. Artyomov , Anatoly B. Kolomeisky

We present a generalized multinodal model for simulating particle and energy transport in toroidal plasma configurations, developed to support burning plasma analysis and reactor-scale modeling. Unlike fixed-node models, this formulation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-21 Zefang Liu , Weston M. Stacey

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

We take the perspective of open quantum systems and examine from their nonequilibrium dynamics the conditions when the physical quantities, their relations and the laws of thermodynamics become well defined and viable for quantum many body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-30 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , C. H. Chou , Y. Subaşi , B. L. Hu

A diffusion process of a Brownian particle in a medium of temperature $T$ is re-considered. We assume that temperature of the medium fluctuates around its mean value. The velocity probability distribution is obtained. It is shown that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Luczka , B. Zaborek

A generalized multibaker map with periodic boundary conditions is shown to model boundary-driven transport, when the driving is applied by a ``perturbation'' of the dynamics localised in a macroscopically small region. In this case there…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-06-26 Juergen Vollmer , Tamas Tel , Laszlo Matyas

Small, out-of-equilibrium, and quantum systems defy simple thermodynamic expressions. Such systems are exemplified by molecular switches, which exchange heat with a bath. These molecules can photoisomerize, or change conformation, or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-23 Nicole Yunger Halpern , David T. Limmer

We establish an analytical criterion for dynamical thermalization within harmonic systems, applicable to both classical and quantum models. Specifically, we prove that thermalization of various observables, such as particle energies in…

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Understanding thermal transport in nanoscale systems presents important challenges to both theory and experiment. In particular, the concept of local temperature at the nanoscale appears difficult to justify. Here, we propose a novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-08-05 Robert Biele , Roberto D'Agosta , Angel Rubio

We introduce a general framework for thermometry based on collisional models, where ancillas probe the temperature of the environment through an intermediary system. This allows for the generation of correlated ancillas even if they are…

We investigate the experimental setup proposed in [New J. Phys., 15, 115006 (2013)] for calorimetric measurements of thermodynamic indicators in an open quantum system. As theoretical model we consider a periodically driven qubit coupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-09 Brecht Donvil , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Jukka P. Pekola , Kay Schwieger

The relativistic generalization of a free Brownian motion theory is presented. The global characteristics of the relaxation are {\it explicitly} found for the velocity and momentum (stochastic) kinetics. It is shown that the thermal…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-08-15 Ryszard Zygadło

A Wigner-Klein-Kramers equation is proposed, which merges relativistic, quantum and thermo dynamics. The relativistic effect on quantum Brownian motion is studied via the Breit-Fermi Hamiltonian applied into a dissipative Madelung…

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