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Entropy production due to coupling to a heat bath in the kicked rotor problem

Quantum Physics 2009-11-07 v1

Abstract

Considering a kicked rotor coupled to a model heat bath both the classical and quantum entropy productions are calculated exactly. Starting with an initial wave packet, the von Neuman entropy as a function of time is determined from the reduced density matrix while the Liouville evolution of the corresponding Husimi distribution provides us with the classical entropy. It is found that both these entropies agree reasonably satisfying the same asymptotic growth law and more importantly both are proportional to the classical Liapounov exponent.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0108099,
  title  = {Entropy production due to coupling to a heat bath in the kicked rotor problem},
  author = {Sankhasubhra Nag and Avijit Lahiri and Gautam Ghosh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0108099},
  year   = {2009}
}

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9 pages, 5 .eps figures, Latex