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The cost of classical simulations of quantum many-body dynamics is often determined by the amount of entanglement in the system. In this paper, we study entanglement in stochastic quantum trajectory approaches that solve master equations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-19 Tatiana Vovk , Hannes Pichler

Based on the general form of the master equation for open quantum systems the tunneling is considered. Using the path integral technique a simple closed form expression for the tunneling rate through a parabolic barrier is obtained. The…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 G. G. Adamian , N. V. Antonenko , W. Scheid

Probability is an important question in the ontological interpretation of quantum mechanics. It has been discussed in some trajectory interpretations such as Bohmian mechanics and stochastic mechanics. New questions arise when the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-10 Ciann-Dong Yang , Shiang-Yi Han

This article sets up a new formalism to investigate stochastic thermodynamics of out-of-equilibrium quantum systems, where stochasticity primarily comes from quantum measurement. In the absence of any bath, we define a purely quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-17 Cyril Elouard , David Herrera Marti , Maxime Clusel , Alexia Auffèves

Semiclassical transition probabilities characterize transfer of energy between "hard" and "soft" modes in various physical systems. We establish the boundary problem for singular euclidean solutions used to calculate such probabilities.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Yu. Khlebnikov

We study the real time dynamics of a quantum system with potential barrier coupled to a heat-bath environment. Employing the path integral approach an evolution equation for the time dependent density matrix is derived. The time evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Ankerhold , Hermann Grabert , Gert-Ludwig Ingold

We discuss activated escape from a metastable state of a system driven by a time-periodic force. We show that the escape probabilities can be changed very strongly even by a comparatively weak force. In a broad parameter range, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. I. Dykman , B. Golding , L. I. McCann , V. N. Smelyanskiy , D. G. Luchinsky , R. Mannella , P. V. E. McClintock

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 analyze the microscopic model of quantum Brownian motion, describing a Brownian particle interacting with a bosonic bath through a coupling which is linear in the creation and annihilation operators of the bath, but may be a nonlinear…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-04-17 Pietro Massignan , Aniello Lampo , Jan Wehr , Maciej Lewenstein

Brane model of universe is considered for a particle. Conservation laws inside the brane are obtained. Equation of motion is derived for a particle using variation principle from these conservation laws. This equation includes terms…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-13 S. N. Andrianov , V. V. Bochkarev , S. M. Kozyrev

We consider a three dimensional system consisting of a large number of small spherical particles, distributed in a range of sizes and heights (with uniform distribution in the horizontal direction). Particles move vertically at a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-12-05 P. Horvai , S. V. Nazarenko , T. H. M. Stein

We study a class of systems of stochastic differential equations describing diffusive phenomena. The Smoluchowski-Kramers approximation is used to describe their dynamics in the small mass limit. Our systems have arbitrary state-dependent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-04-29 Scott Hottovy , Austin McDaniel , Giovanni Volpe , Jan Wehr

We show theoretically the existence of a metastable state and the possibility of decay to the ground state through macroscopic quantum tunneling in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates with repulsive interactions. Numerical analysis of…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Kenichi Kasamatsu , Yukinori Yasui , Makoto Tsubota

Tunneling is a fascinating aspect of quantum mechanics that renders the local minima of a potential meta-stable, with important consequences for particle physics, for the early hot stage of the universe, and more speculatively, for the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-10-04 Mariana Carrillo Gonzalez , Ali Masoumi , Adam R. Solomon , Mark Trodden

We consider a driven quantum particle in the strong friction regime described by the quantum Smoluchowski equation. We derive Crooks and Jarzynski type relations for the reduced quantum system by properly generalizing the entropy production…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-27 Sebastian Deffner , Michael Brunner , Eric Lutz

In this paper, we study elastic Brownian motion on a \(C^2\) domain. Instead of being killed at the boundary, the process restarts from a random position inside the domain. We characterize this process through its stochastic differential…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-11-04 Fausto Colantoni , Mirko D'Ovidio

We consider a random model of diffusion and coagulation. A large number of small particles are randomly scattered at an initial time. Each particle has some integer mass and moves in a Brownian motion whose diffusion rate is determined by…

Probability · Mathematics 2012-08-21 Alan Hammond , Fraydoun Rezakhanlou

The computation of the probability of the first-passage time through a given threshold of a stochastic process is a classic problem that appears in many branches of physics. When the stochastic dynamics is markovian, the probability admits…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-05 Michele Maggiore , Antonio Riotto

We model the dynamics of a closed quantum system brought out of mechanical equilibrium, undergoing a non-driven, spontaneous, thermodynamic transformation. In particular, we consider a quantum particle in a box with a moving and insulating…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-21 Sofia Sgroi , Mauro Paternostro

Dynamical aspects of quantum Brownian motion in a low temperature environment are investigated. We give a systematic calculation of quantum entanglement among two Brownian oscillators without invoking Born-Markov approximation widely used…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Shiokawa