A review on piezoelectric fibers and nanowires for energy harvesting

B Zaarour, L Zhu, C Huang, XY Jin… - Journal of Industrial …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent advances in self-powered electronic devices have urged the development of energy-
harvesting technology. Batteries are gradually unable to satisfy the practical requirements …

Energy exchange in driven open quantum systems at strong coupling

M Carrega, P Solinas, M Sassetti, U Weiss - Physical review letters, 2016 - APS
The time-dependent energy transfer in a driven quantum system strongly coupled to a heat
bath is studied within an influence functional approach. Exact formal expressions for the …

Quantum dynamical speedup in a nonequilibrium environment

X Cai, Y Zheng - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
We theoretically study the dynamical speedup of a quantum system in a nonequilibrium
environment. Based on the trace distance, we derive the generalized Margolus-Levitin and …

Efficient bond-adaptive approach for finite-temperature open quantum dynamics using the one-site time-dependent variational principle for matrix product states

AJ Dunnett, AW Chin - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Recent tensor network techniques for simulating system-environment wave functions have
provided profound insights into non-Markovian dissipation and decoherence in open …

MPSDynamics. jl: Tensor network simulations for finite-temperature (non-Markovian) open quantum system dynamics

T Lacroix, B Le Dé, A Riva, AJ Dunnett… - The Journal of Chemical …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The MPSDynamics. jl package provides an easy-to-use interface for performing open
quantum systems simulations at zero and finite temperatures. The package has been …

Fundamental limits to frequency estimation: a comprehensive microscopic perspective

JF Haase, A Smirne, J Kołodyński… - New Journal of …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We consider a metrology scenario in which qubit-like probes are used to sense an external
field that affects their energy splitting in a linear fashion. Following the frequency estimation …

Efficient simulation of open quantum systems coupled to a fermionic bath

A Nüßeler, I Dhand, SF Huelga, MB Plenio - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We present and analyze the fermionic time-evolving density matrix using orthogonal
polynomials algorithm (fTEDOPA), which enables the numerically exact simulation of open …

Unveiling non-Markovian spacetime signaling in open quantum systems with long-range tensor network dynamics

T Lacroix, A Dunnett, D Gribben, BW Lovett, A Chin - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Nanoscale devices, either biological or artificial, operate in a regime where the usual
assumptions of a structureless Markovian bath do not hold. Being able to predict and study …

The interplay between local and non-local master equations: Exact and approximated dynamics

N Megier, A Smirne, B Vacchini - New Journal of Physics, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Master equations are a useful tool to describe the evolution of open quantum systems. In
order to characterize the mathematical features and the physical origin of the dynamics, it is …

Thermal cycle and polaron formation in structured bosonic environments

A Riva, D Tamascelli, AJ Dunnett, AW Chin - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
Chain-mapping techniques combined with the time-dependent density matrix
renormalization group are powerful tools for simulating the dynamics of open quantum …