Uncertainty Relations for Mesoscopic Coherent Light
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2022-01-05 v3 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
Thermodynamic uncertainty relations unveil useful connections between fluctuations in thermal systems and entropy production. This work extends these ideas to the disparate field of \textit{zero temperature} quantum mesoscopic physics where fluctuations are due to coherent effects and entropy production is replaced by a cost function. The cost function arises naturally as a bound on fluctuations, induced by coherent effects -- a critical resource in quantum mesoscopic physics. Identifying the cost function as an important quantity demonstrates the potential of importing powerful methods from non-equilibrium statistical physics to quantum mesoscopics.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2011.07246,
title = {Uncertainty Relations for Mesoscopic Coherent Light},
author = {Ariane Soret and Ohad Shpielberg and Eric Akkermans},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.07246},
year = {2022}
}