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Nonequilibrium work distributions in quantum impurity system-bath mixing processes

Statistical Mechanics 2022-08-11 v2 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Quantum Physics

Abstract

The fluctuation theorem, where the central quantity is the work distribution, is an important characterization of nonequilibrium thermodynamics. In this work, based on the dissipaton-equation-of-motion theory, we develop an exact method to evaluate the work distributions in quantum impurity system-bath mixing processes, in the presence of non-Markovian and strong couplings. Our results not only precisely reproduce the Jarzynski equality and Crooks relation, but also reveal rich information on large deviation. The numerical demonstrations are carried out with a spin-boson model system.

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@article{arxiv.2203.16367,
  title  = {Nonequilibrium work distributions in quantum impurity system-bath mixing processes},
  author = {Hong Gong and Yao Wang and Xiao Zheng and Rui-Xue Xu and YiJing Yan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.16367},
  year   = {2022}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures

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