Open Quantum Systems
Thermalization without detailed balance: population oscillations in the absence of coherences
Authors: Shay Blum and David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky Published on: J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 16, 4066 (2025) Key Question: How can population oscillations occur without quantum February 19, 2025 Key Question: How can population oscillations occur without quantum coherences? How do systems that violate detailed balance thermalize? What is the role of exceptional points in…
קרא עודOn thermodynamic inconsistencies in several photosynthetic and solar cell models and how to fix them
Authors: David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky and Alán Aspuru-Guzik Published on: Chem. Sci 8, 1008 (2017). Key Question: What are the thermodynamic repercussions of including a sink? How do you describe solar energy conversion without violating thermodynamics?
קרא עודSteady state properties of periodically driven quantum systems
Authors: Robert Alicki, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky and Alejandro Jenkins Published on: arXiv:2508.07674 (2025). Key Questions: What is the steady state of a periodically driven system interacting with a thermal bath? What is the role of unitarity in the thermalization of quantum systems?
קרא עודViolation of Detailed Balance in Quantum Open Systems
Authors: Robert Alicki, Milan Šindelka, and David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky Published on: Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 040401 (2023). Key Question: Is detailed balance necessary for thermal equilibration?
קרא עודDynamical theory for the battery’s electromotive force
Authors: R. Alicki, D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, A. Jenkins and E. von Hauff Published on: Chemistry Chemical Physics 23, 9428 (2021); Key Question: How to dynamically described the electric current generated by a battery?
קרא עודSpin-bath polarization via disentanglement
Authors: D. D. Bhaktavatsala Rao, D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, N. Bar-Gill and G. Kurizki Published on: New Journal of Physics 22, 083035 (2020). Key Question: How to cool down a spin bath?
קרא עודA dynamic picture of energy conversion in photovoltaic devices
Authors: Robert Alicki, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Alejandro Jenkins, Elizabeth von Hauff Published on: arXiv:1901.10873. Key Question:How do you build a dynamic picture for photovoltaic devices?
קרא עודCooling by heating in nonequilibrium nanosystems
Authors: R. Hartle, C. Schinabeck, M. Kulkarni, D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, M. Thoss, and U. Peskin and Alejandro Published on: Physical Review B 98, 08140(R) (2018). Key Question: Could heating part of a system cool down another part?
קרא עודNon-Equilibrium Quantum Heat Machines
Authors: Robert Alicki and David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky Published on: New J. Phys. 17 115012 Key Question: What are the bounds of heat machines operating with non-equilibrium heat baths?
קרא עודThermodynamics of quantum systems under dynamical control
Authors: D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, W. Niedenzu and G. Kurizki. Published on: Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics volume 64, 329 (2015). Key Question: A review on the thermodynamics of quantum systems
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