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Couplings of a system to other degrees of freedom (that is, environmental degrees of freedom) lead to energy dissipation when the number of environmental degrees of freedom is large enough. Here we discuss quantal treatments for such energy…

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We develop a general framework to assess capabilities and limitations of the Gaussian toolbox in continuous variable quantum information theory. Our framework allows us to characterize the structure and properties of quantum resource…

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Several years ago the so-called quantum geometrodynamics in extended phase space was proposed. The main role in this version of quantum geometrodynamics is given to a wave function that carries information about geometry of the Universe as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 T. P. Shestakova

Both in atomic physics and in mesoscopic physics it is sometimes interesting to consider the energy time-dependence of a parametrically-driven chaotic system. We assume an Hamiltonian ${\cal H}(Q,P;x(t))$ where $x(t)=Vt$. The velocity $V$…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Doron Cohen

The resource theory of quantum thermodynamics has been a very successful theory and has generated much follow-up work in the community. It requires energy-preserving unitary operations to be implemented over a system, bath, and catalyst as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-13 Mischa P. Woods , Michał Horodecki

Thermodynamics imposes restrictions on what state transformations are possible. In the macroscopic limit of asymptotically many independent copies of a state---as for instance in the case of an ideal gas---the possible transformations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-14 Philippe Faist , Mario Berta , Fernando Brandão

In this paper, by arising condition in variation, from equal time to non-equal time, I reconsider how geometrodynamics equations allow to be derived from variational principle in general relativity and then find the variation of extrinsic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-11-15 Qian Chen

The relationship between thermodynamics and statistical physics is valid in the thermodynamic limit - when the number of particles becomes very large. Here, we study thermodynamics in the opposite regime - at both the nano scale, and when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-28 Michał Horodecki , Jonathan Oppenheim

Quantum reference frames are expected to differ from classical reference frames because they have to implement typical quantum features such as fluctuations and correlations. Here, we show that fluctuations and correlations of reference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-03 Martin Bojowald , Artur Tsobanjan

Employing internal quantum systems as reference frames is a crucial concept in quantum gravity, gauge theories and quantum foundations whenever external relata are unavailable. In this work, we give a comprehensive and self-contained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-30 Philipp A. Hoehn , Marius Krumm , Markus P. Mueller

We study the transition probabilities of a two-point measurement on a quantum system, initially prepared in a thermal state. We find two independent constraints on the difference between transition probabilities when the system is prepared…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Ludovico Tesser , Matteo Acciai , Christian Spånslätt , Inès Safi , Janine Splettstoesser

We determine the quantum states and measurements that optimize the accessible information in a reference frame alignment protocol associated with the groups U(1), corresponding to a phase reference, and $\mathbb{Z}_M$, the cyclic group of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-17 Michael Skotiniotis , Gilad Gour

For small thermodynamic systems in contact with a heat bath, we determine the free energy by imposing the following two conditions. First, the quasi-static work in any configuration change is equal to the free energy difference. Second, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-10-19 Shin-ichi Sasa , Ken Hiura , Naoko Nakagawa , Akira Yoshida

For quantum systems with competing potentials, the conventional perturbation theory often yields an asymptotic series and the subsequent numerical outcome becomes uncertain. To tackle such kind of problems, we develop a general solution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 H. Mineo , Sheng D. Chao

The basic thermodynamic quantities for a non-interacting scalar field in a periodic potential composed of either a one-dimensional chain of Dirac $\delta$-$\delta^\prime$ functions or a specific potential with extended compact support are…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2020-04-22 M. Bordag , J. M. Muñoz-Castañeda , L. Santamaría-Sanz

Prethermalization has been extensively studied in systems close to integrability. We propose a more general, yet conceptually simpler, setup for this phenomenon. We consider a---possibly nonintegrable---reference dynamics, weakly perturbed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-05-13 Krishnanand Mallayya , Marcos Rigol , Wojciech De Roeck

Quantum reference frame transformations have been proposed to provide a means by which to translate descriptions of quantum systems relative to each other. At present, there are several differing frameworks for describing quantum reference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Esteban Castro-Ruiz , Thomas D. Galley , Leon Loveridge

We argue that the account of Reference Frames quantum properties must change the standard space-time picture accepted in Quantum Mechanics. If RF is connected with some macroscopic solid object then its free quantum motion - wave packet…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2008-02-03 S. Mayburov

The variation of the energy for a gravitational system is directly defined from the Hamiltonian field equations of General Relativity. When the variation of the energy is written in a covariant form it splits into two (covariant)…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Francaviglia , M. Raiteri

The resource-theoretic approach to quantum thermodynamics assumes complete knowledge of the thermal equilibrium against which thermodynamic resources are defined. In practice, however, this state is determined by the system Hamiltonian and…

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