3 papers
quant-ph2025
Work and heat exchanged during sudden quenches of strongly coupled quantum systems
Zohreh Davoudi, Christopher Jarzynski, Niklas Mueller +3
How should one define thermodynamic quantities (internal energy, work, heat, etc.) for quantum systems coupled to their environments strongly? We examine three (classically equival…
quant-ph2024
Quantum thermodynamics of nonequilibrium processes in lattice gauge theories
Zohreh Davoudi, Christopher Jarzynski, Niklas Mueller +3
A key objective in nuclear and high-energy physics is to describe nonequilibrium dynamics of matter, e.g., in the early universe and in particle colliders, starting from the Standa…
quant-ph2023
Theory of quantum super impulses
Christopher Jarzynski
A quantum impulse is a brief but strong perturbation that produces a sudden change in a wavefunction . We develop a theory of quantum impulses, distinguishing between ordinar…