Quantum Fluctuation Theorems for Arbitrary Environments: Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Entropy Production
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Manzano, Gonzalo
Parrondo, Juan M. R.
Horowitz, Jordan M.
Date Issued
August 2018
Journal
Physical Review X
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American Physical Society
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Manzano, Gonzalo et al. "Quantum Fluctuation Theorems for Arbitrary Environments: Adiabatic and Nonadiabatic Entropy Production." Physical Review X 8, 3 (September 2018): 031037
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Abstract
We analyze the production of entropy along nonequilibrium processes in quantum systems coupled to generic environments. First, we show that the entropy production due to final measurements and the loss of correlations obeys a fluctuation theorem in detailed and integral forms. Second, we discuss the decomposition of the entropy production into two positive contributions, adiabatic and nonadiabatic, based on the existence of invariant states of the local dynamics. Fluctuation theorems for both contributions hold only for evolutions verifying a specific condition of quantum origin. We illustrate our results with three relevant examples of quantum thermodynamic processes far from equilibrium.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.031037
