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Employing the stochastic wave function method, we study quantum features of stochastic entropy production in nonequilibrium processes of open systems. It is demonstarted that continuous measurements on the environment introduce an…

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Entropy is one of the most basic concepts in thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. The most widely used definition of statistical mechanical entropy for a quantum system is introduced by von Neumann. While in classical systems, the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-18 Tian Qiu , Zhaoyu Fei , Rui Pan , Haitao Quan

Nonequilibrium steady-state currents, unlike their equilibrium counterparts, continuously dissipate energy into their physical surroundings leading to entropy production and time-reversal symmetry breaking. This letter discusses these…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2009-11-13 Pankaj Mehta , Natan Andrei

We study the statistics of infima, stopping times and passage probabilities of entropy production in nonequilibrium steady states, and show that they are universal. We consider two examples of stopping times: first-passage times of entropy…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-28 Izaak Neri , Édgar Roldán , Frank Jülicher

In sharp contrast to the corresponding classical systems cases it is not yet understood how to define a mechanical quantity with the interpretation of entropy creation rate for nonequilibrum stationary states of finite quantum systems with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giovanni Gallavotti

The nonadiabatic entropy production is a useful tool for the thermodynamic analysis of continuously dissipating, nonequilibrium steady states. For open quantum systems, two seemingly distinct definitions for the nonadiabatic entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Jordan M. Horowitz , Takahiro Sagawa

The quench dynamics of many-body quantum systems may exhibit non-analyticities in the Loschmidt echo, a phenomenon known as dynamical phase transition (DPT). Despite considerable research into the underlying mechanisms behind this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 B. O. Goes , G. T. Landi , E. Solano , M. Sanz , L. C. Céleri

The probability distribution of the total entropy production in the non-equilibrium steady state follows a symmetry relation called the fluctuation theorem. When a certain part of the system is masked or hidden, it is difficult to infer the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-29 Deepak Gupta , Sanjib Sabhapandit

We study the relationship between (non-)Markovian evolutions, established correlations, and the entropy production rate. We consider a system qubit in contact with a thermal bath and in addition the system is strongly coupled to an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-24 Maria Popovic , Bassano Vacchini , Steve Campbell

For open systems described by the quantum Markovian master equation, we study a possible extension of the Clausius equality to quasistatic operations between nonequilibrium steady states (NESSs). We investigate the excess heat divided by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-09-10 Tatsuro Yuge , Takahiro Sagawa , Ayumu Sugita , Hisao Hayakawa

We show that the nonequilibrium entropy production for a driven quantum system is larger than the Bures length, the geometric distance between its actual state and the corresponding equilibrium state. This universal lower bound generalizes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-04-28 Sebastian Deffner , Eric Lutz

A transition matrix can be constructed through the partial contraction of two given quantum states. We analyze and compare four different definitions of entropy for transition matrices, including (modified) pseudo entropy, SVD entropy, and…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-08-21 Zhaohui Chen , Rene Meyer , Zhuo-Yu Xian

The theory of entropy production in nonequilibrium, Hamiltonian systems, previously described for steady states using partitions of phase space, is here extended to time dependent systems relaxing to equilibrium. We illustrate the main…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. Gilbert , J. R. Dorfman , P. Gaspard

In this thesis, we present and discuss the quantum statistical foundations of relativistic hydrodynamics with special emphasis on the entropy current. We show that it is possible to provide a rigorous definition for this quantity in the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2021-10-18 Davide Rindori

Quantum Brownian motion model is a typical model in the study of nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics. Entropy is one of the most fundamental physical concepts in thermodynamics. In this work, by solving the quantum Langevin equation, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Tian Qiu , H. T. Quan

We analyze the production of entropy along non-equilibrium processes in quantum systems coupled to generic environments. First, we show that the entropy production due to final measurements and the loss of correlations obeys a fluctuation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-08 Gonzalo Manzano , Jordan M. Horowitz , Juan M. R. Parrondo

With nontrivial entropy production, first passage process is one of the most common nonequilibrium process in stochastic thermodynamics. Using one dimensional birth and death precess as a model framework, approximated expressions of mean…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-04 Yunxin Zhang

Based on exact integration of the Schr\"odinger equation, we numerically study microscopic contributions to the entropy production for the single electron transistor, a paradigmatic model describing a single Fermi level tunnel coupled to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-02-26 Ayaka Usui , Krzysztof Ptaszyński , Massimiliano Esposito , Philipp Strasberg

The entropy produced when a system undergoes an infinitesimal quench is directly linked to the work parameter susceptibility, making it sensitive to the existence of a quantum critical point. Its singular behavior at $T=0$, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-13 Adalberto D. Varizi , Raphael C. Drumond , Gabriel T. Landi

We propose a geometrical engine undergoing an adiabatic (Thouless) pumping process for a small system connected to external isothermal reservoirs with the control of electrochemical potentials of the reservoirs and one parameter in the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-29 Hisao Hayakawa , Ville M. M. Paasonen , Ryosuke Yoshii