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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The evaluation of the specific heat of an open damped quantum system is a subtle issue.
One possible route is based on the thermodynamic partition function which is the ratio of the …