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Effect of a complicated many-body environment is analyzed on the chaotic motion of a quantum particle in a mesoscopic ballistic structure. The dephasing and absorption phenomena are treated on the same footing in the framework of a model…

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Recent experimental and theoretical efforts have focused on the effect of dissipation on quantum many-body systems in their many-body localized (MBL) phase. While in the presence of dephasing noise such systems reach a unique ergodic state,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2017-02-01 Benjamin Everest , Igor Lesanovsky , Juan P. Garrahan , Emanuele Levi

Proponents of Complexity Science believe that the huge variety of emergent phenomena observed throughout nature, are generated by relatively few microscopic mechanisms. Skeptics however point to the lack of concrete examples in which a…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2011-03-08 Neil F. Johnson , Josef Ashkenazi , Zhenyuan Zhao , Luis Quiroga

We study the effect of finite time resolution on coherent superpositions of rotating clockwise and anticlockwise wave packets in the regime of strongly overlapping resonances of the intermediate complex. Such highly excited deformed…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Benet , S. Yu. Kun , Wang Qi , V. Denisov

Precise understanding of the dynamics of trapped particles is crucial for nascent quantum technologies, including atomic clocks and quantum simulators. Here we present a framework to systematically include quantum effects arising from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-06-11 Rebecca Haustein , Gerard J. Milburn , Magdalena Zych

We study the quantum chaotic dynamics of an initially well-localized wave packet in a cosine potential perturbed by an external time-dependent force. For our choice of initial condition and with $\hbar$ small but finite, we find that the…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-22 B. S. Helmkamp , D. A. Browne

We investigate the emergent open dynamics of a quantum system that undergoes rapid repeated unitary interactions with a sequence of ancillary systems. We study in detail how decoherence appears as a subleading effect when a quantum system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-26 Daniel Grimmer , David Layden , Robert B. Mann , Eduardo Martin-Martinez

Understanding of the precise mechanisms of high-temperature superconductivity is elusive. In particular, in order to solve the puzzle of the pairing mechanism, it is important to understand the detailed nature of the excitations at energies…

Superconductivity · Physics 2020-03-05 Fabio Novelli , Jonathan O. Tollerud , Dharmalingam Prabhakaran , Jeffrey A. Davis

Controlled quantum systems such as ultracold atoms can provide powerful platforms to study non-equilibrium dynamics of closed many-body quantum systems, especially since a complete theoretical description is generally challenging. In this…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-15 M. Aidelsburger , J. L. Ville , R. Saint-Jalm , S. Nascimbène , J. Dalibard , J. Beugnon

A phase controlled wave packet, recently used in experiment of wave packet interferometry of adiatomic molecule, is investigated to obtain mesoscopic superposition structures, useful in quantum metrology. This analysis provides a new way of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-30 Suranjana Ghosh

The phenomenon of matter wave interference lies at the heart of quantum physics. It has been observed in various contexts in the limit of non-interacting particles as a single particle effect. Here we observe and control matter wave…

When multiple quantum emitters couple to a common electromagnetic environment, interference in their collective radiative dynamics gives rise to superradiance and subradiance. In regimes where coherent interactions and collective…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-05-13 Botao Du , Qihao Guo , Ruichao Ma

Information-theoretic quantities have received significant attention as system-independent measures of correlations in many-body quantum systems, e.g., as universal order parameters of synchronization. In this work, we present a method to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-24 Krzysztof Ptaszynski , Maciej Chudak , Massimiliano Esposito

We review canonical experiments on systems that have pushed the boundary between the quantum and classical worlds towards much larger scales, and discuss their unique features that enable quantum coherence to survive. Because the types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Tristan Farrow , Vlatko Vedral

The dephasing influence of a dissipative environment reduces linear superpositions of macroscopically distinct quantum states (sometimes also called Schr\"odinger cat states) usually almost immediately to a statistical mixture. This process…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Daniel Braun , Petr A. Braun , Fritz Haake

We discuss the effect of slow phase relaxation and the spin off-diagonal $S$-matrix correlations on the cross section energy oscillations and the time evolution of the highly excited intermediate systems formed in complex collisions. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Luis Benet , Lewis T. Chadderton , Sergey Yu. Kun , Oleg K. Vorov , Wang Qi

The exact equations of motion for microscopic density of classical many-body system with account of inter-particle retarded interactions are derived. It is shown that interactions retardation leads to irreversible behaviour of many-body…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-22 A. Yu. Zakharov , M. A. Zakharov

A model is presented to describe the recently proposed experiment (J. Raimond, M. Brune and S. Haroche Phys. Rev. Lett {\bf 79}, 1964 (1997)) where a mesoscopic superposition of radiation states is prepared in a high-Q cavity which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 S. G. Mokarzel , A. N. Salgueiro , M. C. Nemes

Long-range interacting many-body systems exhibit a number of peculiar and intriguing properties. One of those is the scaling of relaxation times with the number $N$ of particles in a system. In this paper I give a survey of results on…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-14 Michael Kastner

Macroscopic quantum phenomena such as lasers, Bose-Einstein condensates, superfluids, and superconductors are of great importance in foundations and applications of quantum mechanics. In particular, quantum superposition of a large number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-27 Liang Jin , Sen Yang , Jörg Wrachtrup , Ren-Bao Liu