Non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics of a memory-bearing open-system process

Quantum Physics [Submitted on 4 Jun 2026] Non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics of a memory-bearing open-system process Biagio G. Banigi, Eric Lutz, Mauro Paternostro We show the emergence of memory effects in the dynamics of a driven two-level system interacting with a composite environment, and analyze their influence on work, heat and entropy production. We further investigate how the interplay between driving, dissipation and memory effects, stemming from the finiteness of the environment, shapes the thermodynamic response of the system, thus providing insight into quantum thermodynamics beyond the Markovian approximation. Comments: 7 + 4 pages, 7 figures. Comments are welcome! Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph) Cite as: arXiv:2606.05904 [quant-ph]   (or arXiv:2606.05904v1 [quant-ph] for this version)   https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.05904 Focus to learn more Submission history From: Biagio Giuseppe Banigi [view email] [v1] Thu, 4 Jun 2026 09:08:31 UTC (717 KB) Access Paper: HTML (experimental) view license Current browse context: quant-ph < prev   |   next > new | recent | 2026-06 References & Citations INSPIRE HEP NASA ADS Google Scholar Semantic Scholar Export BibTeX Citation Bookmark Bibliographic Tools Bibliographic and Citation Tools Bibliographic Explorer Toggle Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?) Connected Papers Toggle Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?) Litmaps Toggle Litmaps (What is Litmaps?) scite.ai Toggle scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?) Code, Data, Media Demos Related Papers About arXivLabs Which authors of this paper are endorsers? | Disable MathJax (What is MathJax?)