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Thermodynamic uncertainty relation for quantum first passage process

Quantum Physics 2022-04-21 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation for first passage processes in quantum Markov chains. We consider first passage processes that stop after a fixed number of jumps, which contrasts with typical quantum Markov chains which end at a fixed time. We obtain bounds for the observables of the first passage processes in quantum Markov chains by the Loschmidt echo, which quantifies the extent of irreversibility in quantum many-body systems. Considering a particular case, we show that the lower bound corresponds to the quantum Fisher information, which plays a fundamental role in uncertainty relations in quantum systems. Moreover, considering classical dynamics, our bound reduces to a thermodynamic uncertainty relation for classical first passage processes.

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@article{arxiv.2106.09870,
  title  = {Thermodynamic uncertainty relation for quantum first passage process},
  author = {Yoshihiko Hasegawa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.09870},
  year   = {2022}
}

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10 pages, 5 figures

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