Colloquium: Quantum fluctuation relations: Foundations and applications

M Campisi, P Hänggi, P Talkner - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2011 - APS
Two fundamental ingredients play a decisive role in the foundation of fluctuation relations:
the principle of microreversibility and the fact that thermal equilibrium is described by the …

Fundamental aspects of quantum Brownian motion

P Hänggi, GL Ingold - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear …, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
With this work we elaborate on the physics of quantum noise in thermal equilibrium and in
stationary nonequilibrium. Starting out from the celebrated quantum fluctuation-dissipation …

Fluctuation theorem for arbitrary open quantum systems

M Campisi, P Talkner, P Hänggi - Physical review letters, 2009 - APS
Based on the observation that the thermodynamic equilibrium free energy of an open
quantum system in contact with a thermal environment is the difference between the free …

Dissipative dynamics of an open quantum battery

M Carrega, A Crescente, D Ferraro… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Coupling with an external environment inevitably affects the dynamics of a quantum system.
Here, we consider how charging performances of a quantum battery, modelled as a two …

Modelling the ultra-strongly coupled spin-boson model with unphysical modes

N Lambert, S Ahmed, M Cirio, F Nori - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
A quantum system weakly coupled to a zero-temperature environment will relax, via
spontaneous emission, to its ground-state. However, when the coupling to the environment …

Path integral formulation of fractionally perturbed Lagrangian oscillators on fractal

RA El-Nabulsi - Journal of Statistical Physics, 2018 - Springer
Fractional path integration and particles trajectories in fractional dimensional space are
motivating issues in quantum mechanics and kinetics. In this paper, a fractional path integral …

Quantum linear Boltzmann equation

B Vacchini, K Hornberger - Physics Reports, 2009 - Elsevier
We review the quantum version of the linear Boltzmann equation, which describes in a non-
perturbative fashion, by means of scattering theory, how the quantum motion of a single test …

Finite quantum dissipation: the challenge of obtaining specific heat

P Hänggi, GL Ingold, P Talkner - New Journal of Physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider a free particle coupled with finite strength to a bath and investigate the
evaluation of its specific heat. A harmonic oscillator bath of Drude type with cutoff frequency …

Non-Markovian theories based on a decomposition of the spectral density

U Kleinekathöfer - The Journal of chemical physics, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
For the description of dynamical effects in quantum mechanical systems on ultrashort time
scales, memory effects play an important role. Meier and Tannor [J. Chem. Phys. 111, 3365 …

Dissipation-induced collective advantage of a quantum thermal machine

M Carrega, L Razzoli, PA Erdman, F Cavaliere… - AVS Quantum …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Do quantum correlations lead to better performance with respect to several different systems
working independently? For quantum thermal machines, the question is whether a working …