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We study the heat current flowing between two baths consisting of harmonic oscillators interacting with a qubit through a spin-boson coupling. An explicit expression for the generating function of the total heat flowing between the hot and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-05-20 Erik Aurell , Brecht Donvil , Kirone Mallick

We present a fluctuation theorem for quantum bipartite systems in which the subsystems exchange information with each other. Our information fluctuation theorem includes correlations by introducing a quantum mechanical mutual information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jung Jun Park , Sang Wook Kim , Vlatko Vedral

We study both experimentally and theoretically the statistical properties of the energy exchanged between two electrical conductors, kept at different temperature by two different heat reservoirs, and coupled by the electric thermal noise.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-17 Sergio Ciliberto , Alberto Imparato , Antoine Naert , Marius Tanase

We investigate three kinds of heat produced in a system and a bath strongly coupled via an interaction Hamiltonian. By studying the energy flows between the system, the bath, and their interaction, we provide rigorous definitions of two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-27 Chulan Kwon , Jaegon Um , Joonhyun Yeo , Hyunggyu Park

Of indisputable relevance for non-equilibrium thermodynamics, fluctuations theorems have been generalized to the framework of quantum thermodynamics, with the notion of work playing a key role in such contexts. The typical approach consists…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-28 Thales Augusto Barbosa Pinto Silva , Renato Moreira Angelo

A fluctuation relation for the heat exchange of an open quantum system under a thermalizing Markovian dynamics is derived. We show that the probability of that the system absorbs an amount of heat from its bath, at a given time interval,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Mehdi Ramezani , Mehdi Golshani , Ali T. Rezakhani

We use the quantum Brownian model to derive the uncertainty relation for a quantum open system. We examine how the fluctuations of a quantum system evolve after it is brought in contact with a heat bath at finite temperature. We study the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 B. L. Hu , Yuhong Zhang

Heat fluctuation probability distribution function in Brownian transducers operating between two heat reservoirs is studied. We find, both analytically and numerically, that the recently proposed Fluctuation Theorem for Heat Exchange [C.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Gomez-Marin , J. M. Sancho

The performance characteristics of a heat rectifier and a heat pump are studied in a non Markovian framework. The device is constructed from a molecule connected to a hot and cold reservoir. The heat baths are modelled using the stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Gil Katz , Ronnie Kosloff

Heat transport in open quantum systems is particularly susceptible to the modeling of system-reservoir interactions. It thus requires to consistently treat the coupling between a quantum system and its environment. While perturbative…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-06-07 Thomas Motz , Joachim Ankerhold , Jürgen T. Stockburger

As the dimensions of physical systems approach the nanoscale, the laws of thermodynamics must be reconsidered due to the increased importance of fluctuations and quantum effects. While the statistical mechanics of small classical systems is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-11 S. Gasparinetti , P. Solinas , A. Braggio , M. Sassetti

We experimentally verify the Jarzynski and W\"ojcik quantum heat exchange fluctuation relation by implementing the interferometric technique in liquid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance setup and study the exchange heat statistics between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-10-30 Soham Pal , T S Mahesh , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla

This work concerns the statistics of the Two-Time Measurement definition of heat variation in each reservoir of a thermodynamic quantum system. We study the cumulant generating function of the heat flows in the thermodynamic and large-time…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-10-30 Tristan Benoist , Annalisa Panati , Yan Pautrat

We consider heat fluctuations and fluctuation theorems for systems driven by multiple reservoirs. We establish a fundamental symmetry obeyed by the joint probability distribution for the heat transfers and system coordinates. The symmetry…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-10-03 Hans C. Fogedby , Alberto Imparato

Heat transfer in quantum systems is a current topic of interest due to emerging quantum technologies that attempt to miniaturize engines and examine fundamental aspects of thermodynamics. In this work, we consider heat transfer between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Marlon Brenes , Jakub Garwoła , Dvira Segal

The celebrated exchange fluctuation theorem -- proposed by Jarzynski and W\'ozcik, (Phys Rev. Lett. 92, 230602 (2004)) for heat exchange between two systems in thermal equilibrium at different temperatures -- is explored here for quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-05 A R Usha Devi , Sudha , A. K. Rajagopal , A. M. Jayannavar

In the context of fluctuation relations, we study the distribution of energy dissipated by a driven two-level system. Incorporating an energy counting field into the well known spin-boson model enables us to calculate the distribution…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-22 Philip Wollfarth , Alexander Shnirman , Yasuhiro Utsumi

We consider a quantum dot system whose charge fluctuations are monitored by a quantum point contact allowing for the detection of both charge and transferred heat statistics. Our system consists of two nearby conductors that exchange energy…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Rafael Sánchez , Markus Büttiker

We study the real-time dynamics of quantum models with long-range interactions coupled to a heat-bath within the closed-time path-integral formalism. We show that quantum fluctuations depress the transition temperature. In the subcritical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Gustavo Lozano

We consider thermal conduction across a general nonlinear phononic junction. Based on two-time observation protocol and the field theoretical/algebraic method, the cumulants of the heat transferred in both transient and steady-state regimes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-09 Huanan Li , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Baowen Li , Jian-Sheng Wang