Emergence of energy-avoiding and energy-seeking behaviours in nonequilibrium dissipative quantum systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2201.04496v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 14:54:08 GMT
• Title: Emergence of energy-avoiding and energy-seeking behaviours in nonequilibrium dissipative quantum systems
• Authors: Thiago Werlang, Maur\'icio Matos, Frederico Brito and Daniel Valente
• Abstract summary: We find some lifelike behaviours and functionalities in elementary dissipative quantum systems driven out of equilibrium. Specifically, we find both energy-avoiding (low steady dissipation) and energy-seeking behaviours (high steady dissipation) We also find emergent functionalities, namely, a self-organized thermal gradient in the system's environment (in the energy-seeking mode) and an active equilibration against thermal gradients (in the energy-avoiding mode)
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• Abstract: A longstanding challenge in nonequilibrium thermodynamics is to predict the emergence of self-organized behaviours and functionalities typical of living matter. Despite the progress with classical complex systems, it remains far from obvious how to extrapolate these results down to the quantum scale. Here, we employ the paradigmatic master equation framework to establish that some lifelike behaviours and functionalities can indeed emerge in elementary dissipative quantum systems driven out of equilibrium. Specifically, we find both energy-avoiding (low steady dissipation) and energy-seeking behaviours (high steady dissipation), as well as self-adaptive shifts between these modes, in generic few-level systems. We also find emergent functionalities, namely, a self-organized thermal gradient in the system's environment (in the energy-seeking mode) and an active equilibration against thermal gradients (in the energy-avoiding mode). Finally, we discuss the possibility that our results could be related to the concept of dissipative adaptation.

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