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Fluctuation theorems in driven open quantum systems

Statistical Mechanics 2009-02-18 v1 Quantum Physics

Abstract

The characteristic function for the joint measurement of the changes of two commuting observables upon an external forcing of a quantum system is derived. In particular, the statistics of the internal energy, the exchanged heat and the work of a quantum system that {\it weakly} couples to its environment is determined in terms of the energy changes of the system and the environment due to the action of a classical, external force on the system. If the system and environment initially are in a canonical equilibrium, the work performed on the system is shown to satisfy the Tasaki-Crooks theorem and the Jarzynski equality.

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@article{arxiv.0811.0973,
  title  = {Fluctuation theorems in driven open quantum systems},
  author = {Peter Talkner and Michele Campisi and Peter Hänggi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.0973},
  year   = {2009}
}

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12 pages

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