Work statistics, irreversible heat and correlations build-up in joining two spin chains
Statistical Mechanics
2015-10-28 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We investigate the influences of quantum many-body effects, such as criticality and the existence of factorisation fields, in the thermodynamic cost of establishing a bonding link between two independent quantum spin chains. We provide a physical interpretation of the behavior of irreversible work spent in such process by linking the phenomenology of such quantities to the properties of the spectrum of the system
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.0648,
title = {Work statistics, irreversible heat and correlations build-up in joining two spin chains},
author = {Tony J. G. Apollaro and Gianluca Francica and Mauro Paternostro and Michele Campisi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.0648},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
9 pages, 8 figures. Contribution to the FQMT13 special volume