Active Quantum Particles from Engineered Dissipation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19094v1
• Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:20:18 GMT
• Title: Active Quantum Particles from Engineered Dissipation
• Abstract summary: We introduce and characterize different models for an active quantum particle where activity arises from engineered dissipation.<n>We show that all these models display key features of active motion.<n>We discuss the role of quantum fluctuations and experimental realizations with superconducting circuits or cold gases.
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• Abstract: We introduce and characterize different models for an active quantum particle where activity arises from engineered dissipation-- specifically, from a suitably coupled nonequilibrium environment. These include a model of a particle moving on a lattice with coherent and dissipative hopping, as well as quantum generalizations of well-studied models of active behavior, such as the active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process, run-and-tumble dynamics, and the active Brownian particle. Despite the different microscopic mechanisms at play, we show that all these models display key features of active motion. Notably, we observe a crossover from diffusive to active-diffusive behavior at long times, leading to an effective Péclet number, as well as a strong sensitivity to boundary conditions which, in our open quantum system context, arises from the Liouville skin effect. We discuss the role of quantum fluctuations and experimental realizations with superconducting circuits or cold gases, closing with perspectives for many-body effects in quantum active matter.

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