Nonequilibrium boundary-driven quantum systems: Models, methods, and properties

GT Landi, D Poletti, G Schaller - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Recent years have seen tremendous progress in the theoretical understanding of quantum
systems driven dissipatively by coupling to different baths at their edges. This was possible …

Nonequilibrium Green's function method for quantum thermal transport

JS Wang, BK Agarwalla, H Li, J Thingna - Frontiers of Physics, 2014 - Springer
This review deals with the nonequilibrium Green's function (NEGF) method applied to the
problems of energy transport due to atomic vibrations (phonons), primarily for small junction …

Thermodynamics of precision in quantum nonequilibrium steady states

G Guarnieri, GT Landi, SR Clark, J Goold - Physical Review Research, 2019 - APS
Autonomous engines operating at the nanoscale can be prone to deleterious fluctuations in
the heat and particle currents. Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) express a …

Cavity-enhanced transport of charge

D Hagenmüller, J Schachenmayer, S Schütz, C Genes… - Physical review …, 2017 - APS
We theoretically investigate charge transport through electronic bands of a mesoscopic one-
dimensional system, where interband transitions are coupled to a confined cavity mode …

Non-additive dissipation in open quantum networks out of equilibrium

MT Mitchison, MB Plenio - New Journal of Physics, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We theoretically study a simple non-equilibrium quantum network whose dynamics can be
expressed and exactly solved in terms of a time-local master equation. Specifically, we …

Nature of heat in strongly coupled open quantum systems

M Esposito, MA Ochoa, M Galperin - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We show that any heat definition expressed as an energy change in the reservoir energy
plus any fraction of the system-reservoir interaction is not an exact differential when …

Out-of-equilibrium open quantum systems: A comparison of approximate quantum master equation approaches with exact results

A Purkayastha, A Dhar, M Kulkarni - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
We present the Born-Markov approximated Redfield quantum master equation (RQME)
description for an open system of noninteracting particles (bosons or fermions) on an …

Quantum battery charging by non-equilibrium steady-state currents

FH Kamin, Z Abuali, H Ness… - Journal of Physics A …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an analysis of the availability and maximum extractable work of quantum
batteries (QBs) in the presence of charge and/or heat steady-state currents. QBs are …

Heat transport through lattices of quantum harmonic oscillators in arbitrary dimensions

A Asadian, D Manzano, M Tiersch, HJ Briegel - Physical Review E—Statistical …, 2013 - APS
In d-dimensional lattices of coupled quantum harmonic oscillators, we analyze the heat
current caused by two thermal baths of different temperatures, which are coupled to opposite …

Generalized Bose-Einstein condensation into multiple states in driven-dissipative systems

D Vorberg, W Wustmann, R Ketzmerick, A Eckardt - Physical Review Letters, 2013 - APS
Bose-Einstein condensation, the macroscopic occupation of a single quantum state,
appears in equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics and persists also in the hydrodynamic …