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We consider the process of diffusion scattering of a wave function given on the phase space. In this process the heat diffusion is considered only along momenta. We write down the modified Kramers equation describing this situation. In this…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-10-04 E. M. Beniaminov

We study the structure of the time evolution of the density matrix in contact with a thermal bath in a standard projection operator sheme. The reduced density matrix of the system in the steady state is obtained by tracing out the degree of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-05-04 Takashi Mori , Seiji Miyashita

In a quantum Stirling heat engine, the heat exchanged with two thermal baths is partly utilized for performing work by redistributing the energy levels of the working substance. We analyze the thermodynamics of a quantum Stirling engine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Debmalya Das , George Thomas , Andrew N. Jordan

We study the internal dynamics of an elementary quantum system placed close to a body held at a temperature different from that of the surrounding radiation. We derive general expressions for lifetime and density matrix valid for bodies of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Bruno Bellomo , Riccardo Messina , Mauro Antezza

The dissipative dynamics of a quantum Brownian particle is studied for different types of environment. We derive analytic results for the time evolution of the mean energy of the system for Ohmic, sub-Ohmic and super-Ohmic environments,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-01-28 J. Paavola , J. Piilo , K. -A. Suominen , S. Maniscalco

We consider the motion of a particle, taking into account its interaction with environmental degrees of freedom. The dephasing time is determined by the nature of the environment, and depends on the particle velocity. Our interest is in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Doron Cohen

An extended variational principle providing the equations of motion for a system consisting of interacting classical, quasiclassical and quantum components is presented, and applied to the model of bilinear coupling. The relevant dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Grigorescu

To control and utilize quantum features in small scale for practical applications such as quantum transport, it is crucial to gain deep understanding of quantum characteristics of states such as coherence. Here by introducing a technique…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 Laleh Memarzadeh , Azam Mani

We analyze an open quantum system under the influence of more than one environment: a dephasing bath and a probability-absorbing bath that represents a decay channel, as encountered in many models of quantum networks. In our case, dephasing…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Giulio G. Giusteri , Filippo Recrosi , Gernot Schaller , G. Luca Celardo

We theoretically study the quantum speed limits (QSLs) of a qubit system coupled to a thermal dephasing environment with an Ohmic-like spectral density. Based on the geometric QSLs time bound, which is derived by employing the trace…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Xiangji Cai , Yanyan Feng , Jing Ren , Kang Lan , Shuning Sun , Xiangjia Meng , Artur Czerwinski

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

The density operator for a quantum system in thermal equilibrium with its environment depends on Planck's constant, as well as the temperature. At high temperatures, the Weyl representation, that is, the thermal Wigner function, becomes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-30 Alfredo M. Ozorio de Almeida , Gert-Ludwig Ingold , Olivier Brodier

We examine a two-qubit system influenced by a time-periodic external field while interacting with a Markovian bath. This scenario significantly impacts the temporal coherence characteristics of the system. By solving the evolution equation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-19 Kirill Shulga

We derive an analytical expression for the transition path time (TPT) distribution for a one-dimensional particle crossing a parabolic barrier. The solution is expressed in terms of the eigenfunctions and eigenvalues of the associated…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-12-10 Michele Caraglio , Stefanie Put , Enrico Carlon , Carlo Vanderzande

The many-body physics at quantum phase transitions shows a subtle interplay between quantum and thermal fluctuations, emerging in the low-temperature limit. In this review, we first give a pedagogical introduction to the equilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-22 Davide Rossini , Ettore Vicari

Near-future experiments with Petawatt class lasers are expected to produce a high flux of gamma-ray photons and electron-positron pairs through Strong Field Quantum Electrodynamical processes. Simulations of the expected regime of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-09-16 Óscar Amaro , Lucas I. Iñigo Gamiz , Marija Vranic

Quantum circuits have become a powerful tool in the study of many-body quantum physics, providing insights into both fast-thermalizing chaotic and non-thermalizing integrable many-body dynamics. In this work, we explore a distinct…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2024-10-31 Richard D. Barney , Yunxiang Liao , Victor Galitski

Recent advances in quantum simulators permit unitary evolution interspersed with locally resolved mid-circuit measurements. This paves the way for the observation of large-scale space-time structures in quantum trajectories and opens a…

We present a general and practical theoretical framework to investigate how energy is dissipated in open quantum system dynamics. This is done by quantifying the contributions of individual bath components to the overall dissipation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-11 Chang Woo Kim , Ignacio Franco

This thesis covers various aspects of open systems in classical and quantum mechanics. In the first part, we deal with classical systems. The bath-of-oscillators formalism is used to describe an open system, and the phenomenological…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-08-04 Lee Chee Kong