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We study the quantum tunnel effect through a potential barrier employing a semiclassical formulation of quantum mechanics based on expectation values of configuration variables and quantum dispersions as dynamical variables. The evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 L. Aragon-Muñoz , G. Chacon-Acosta , H. Hernandez-Hernandez

The study of open quantum systems often relies on approximate master equations derived under the assumptions of weak coupling to the environment. However when the system is made of several interacting subsystems such a derivation is in many…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-20 G. De Chiara , G. Landi , A. Hewgill , B. Reid , A. Ferraro , A. J. Roncaglia , M. Antezza

This survey has been written in occasion of the School and Workshop about Optimal Transport on Quantum Structures at Erd\"os Center in September 2022. We discuss some recent results on noncommutative entropic optimal transport problems and…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2023-10-17 Lorenzo Portinale

The hierarchical quantum master equation (HQME) approach is an accurate method to describe quantum transport in interacting nanosystems. It generalizes perturbative master equation approaches by including higher-order contributions as well…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-29 Andre Erpenbeck , Christian Hertlein , Christian Schinabeck , Michael Thoss

A simple scheme capable of treating transport in molecular junctions in the language of many-body states is presented. An ansatz in Liouville space similar to generalized Kadanoff-Baym approximation is introduced in order to reduce exact…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-05-06 Massimiliano Esposito , Michael Galperin

This paper establishes new connections between many-body quantum systems, One-body Reduced Density Matrices Functional Theory (1RDMFT) and Optimal Transport (OT), by interpreting the problem of computing the ground-state energy of a finite…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-07-22 Dario Feliciangeli , Augusto Gerolin , Lorenzo Portinale

We discuss recent findings about properties of quantum nonequilibrium steady states. In particular we focus on transport properties. It is shown that the time dependent density matrix renormalization method can be used successfully to find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-15 Marko Znidaric

We investigate the transport behavior of finite modular quantum systems. Such systems have recently been analyzed by different methods. These approaches indicate diffusive behavior even and especially for finite systems. Inspired by these…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Mehmet Kadiroglu , Jochen Gemmer

We obtain the finite-temperature unconditional master equation of the density matrix for two coupled quantum dots (CQD) when one dot is subjected to a measurement of its electron occupation number using a point contact (PC). To determine…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Hsi-Sheng Goan , G. J. Milburn , H. M. Wiseman , He Bi Sun

We present a quantum transport theory for hybrid superconducting systems based on our exact master equation approach. The total transient transport current is decomposed into components that describe coherent transports through different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-07 Chuan-Zhe Yao , Hon-Lam Lai , Wei-Min Zhang

We examine the quantum tunneling of magnetization in molecular spin in weak interaction with a bath subject to Redfield master equation. By designing a microscopic model for a multilevel spin system using only a generic Hamiltonian and…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-27 Le Tuan Anh Ho , Liviu Ungur , Liviu F. Chibotaru

This article proposes a Variational Quantum Algorithm to solve linear and nonlinear thermofluid dynamic transport equations. The hybrid classical-quantum framework is applied to problems governed by the heat, wave, and Burgers' equation in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Sergio Bengoechea , Paul Over , Dieter Jaksch , Thomas Rung

In this Colloquium recent advances in the field of quantum heat transport are reviewed. This topic has been investigated theoretically for several decades, but only during the past twenty years have experiments on various mesoscopic systems…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-20 Jukka P. Pekola , Bayan Karimi

We propose a feasible and effective approach to study quantum thermal transport through anharmonic systems. The main idea is to obtain an {\it effective} harmonic Hamiltonian for the anharmonic system by applying the self-consistent phonon…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-19 Dahai He , Juzar Thingna , Jian-Sheng Wang , Baowen Li

The late-time dynamics of quantum many-body systems is organized in distinct dynamical universality classes, characterized by their conservation laws and thus by their emergent hydrodynamic transport. Here, we study transport in the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2022-08-30 Philip Zechmann , Alvise Bastianello , Michael Knap

We propose a self-consistent generalized quantum master equation (GQME) to describe electron transport through molecular junctions. In a previous study [M.Esposito and M.Galperin. Phys. Rev. B 79, 205303 (2009)], we derived a time-nonlocal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-31 Massimiliano Esposito , Michael Galperin

An efficient new method is presented to calculate the quantum transports using periodic boundary conditions. This method allows the use of conventional ground state ab initio programs without big changes. The computational effort is only a…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Lin-Wang Wang

The quantum geometric tensor (QGT) of a quantum system in a given parameter space captures both the geometry of the state manifold and the topology of the system. While the local QGT elements have been successfully measured in various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-29 Raffael L. Klees , Mónica Benito

We derive a master equation describing the evolution of a quantum system subjected to a sequence of observations. These measurements occur randomly at a given rate and can be of a very general form. As an example, we analyse the effects of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 James D. Cresser , Stephen M. Barnett , John Jeffers , David T. Pegg

We consider electronic transport through a single-molecule junction where the molecule has a degenerate spectrum. Unlike previous transport models, and theories a rate-equations description is no longer possible, and the quantum coherences…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Maximilian G. Schultz