Fundamental aspects of steady-state conversion of heat to work at the nanoscale

G Benenti, G Casati, K Saito, RS Whitney - Physics Reports, 2017 - Elsevier
In recent years, the study of heat to work conversion has been re-invigorated by
nanotechnology. Steady-state devices do this conversion without any macroscopic moving …

Decoherence, entanglement and irreversibility in quantum dynamical systems with few degrees of freedom

P Jacquod, C Petitjean - Advances in Physics, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
In this review we summarize and amplify recent investigations of coupled quantum
dynamical systems with few degrees of freedom in the short-wavelength, semiclassical limit …

Many-body quantum interference and the saturation of out-of-time-order correlators

J Rammensee, JD Urbina, K Richter - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Out-of-time-order correlators (OTOCs) have been proposed as sensitive probes for chaos in
interacting quantum systems. They exhibit a characteristic classical exponential growth, but …

Semiclassical roots of universality in many-body quantum chaos

K Richter, JD Urbina, S Tomsovic - Journal of Physics A …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Quantum chaos of many-body (MB) systems has been swiftly developing into a vibrant
research area at the interface between various disciplines, ranging from statistical physics to …

Semiclassical structure of chaotic resonance eigenfunctions

JP Keating, M Novaes, SD Prado, M Sieber - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We study the resonance (or Gamow) eigenstates of open chaotic systems in the
semiclassical limit, distinguishing between left and right eigenstates of the nonunitary …

Generating particlelike scattering states in wave transport

S Rotter, P Ambichl, F Libisch - Physical review letters, 2011 - APS
We introduce a procedure to generate scattering states which display trajectorylike wave
function patterns in wave transport through complex scatterers. These deterministic …

Many-body physics and quantum chaos

D Ullmo - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Experimental progress in the miniaturization of electronic devices has made routinely
available in the laboratory small electronic systems, on the micrometre or sub-micrometre …

Shot noise in semiclassical chaotic cavities

RS Whitney, P Jacquod - Physical review letters, 2006 - APS
We construct a trajectory-based semiclassical theory of shot noise in clean chaotic cavities.
In the universal regime of vanishing Ehrenfest time τ E, we reproduce the random matrix …

Semiclassical theory of the Ehrenfest time dependence of quantum transport in ballistic quantum dots

PW Brouwer, S Rahav - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter and Materials …, 2006 - APS
We present a trajectory-based semiclassical calculation of the Ehrenfest-time dependence
of the weak localization correction and the universal conductance fluctuations of a ballistic …

Efficient semiclassical approach for time delays

J Kuipers, DV Savin, M Sieber - New Journal of Physics, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The Wigner time delay, defined by the energy derivative of the total scattering phase shift, is
an important spectral measure of an open quantum system characterizing the duration of the …