Violations of the second law of thermodynamics by a non completely positive dynamics
Quantum Physics
2014-09-08 v1 Other Condensed Matter
Abstract
We consider a recently proposed model of driven open quantum microcircuit [F. Pellegrini et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 060401 (2011)] amenable to experimental investigations. We show that such an open quantum system provides a concrete physical instance where to prove that modeling its time-evolution with a dynamics lacking complete positivity conflicts with the second law of thermodynamics.
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@article{arxiv.1408.4589,
title = {Violations of the second law of thermodynamics by a non completely positive dynamics},
author = {G. Argentieri and F. Benatti and R. Floreanini and M. Pezzutto},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.4589},
year = {2014}
}
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6 pages, LaTex