Jarzynski Relations for Quantum Systems and Some Applications
Statistical Mechanics
2007-05-23 v2
Abstract
We derive quantum analogues of Jarzynski's relations, and discuss two applications, namely, a derivation of the law of entropy increase for general compound systems, and a preliminary analysis of heat transfer between two quantum systems at different temperatures. We believe that the derivation of the law of entropy increase is new and of importance.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0009244,
title = {Jarzynski Relations for Quantum Systems and Some Applications},
author = {Hal Tasaki},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0009244},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
11 pages. A remark is added at the end of Section 2.2