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Fluctuation theorems have elevated the second law of thermodynamics to a statistical realm by establishing a connection between time-forward and time-reversal probabilities, providing invaluable insight into nonequilibrium dynamics. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-05 Hui Li , Jie Xie , Hyukjoon Kwon , Yixin Zhao , M. S. Kim , Lijian Zhang

An open question of fundamental importance in thermodynamics is how to describe the fluctuations of work for quantum coherent processes. In the standard approach, based on a projective energy measurement both at the beginning and at the end…

We consider a quantum system strongly driven by forces that are periodic in time. The theorem concerns the probability $P(e)$ of observing a given energy change $e$ after a number of cycles. If the system is thermostated by a (quantum)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Jorge Kurchan

Fluctuation theorems (FTs), which describe some universal properties of nonequilibrium fluctuations, are examined from a quantum perspective and derived by introducing a two-point measurement on the system. FTs for closed and open systems…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-13 Massimiliano Esposito , Upendra Harbola , Shaul Mukamel

It is shown that the quantum fluctuation dissipation theorem can be considered as a mathematical formulation in the spectral representation of Onsager hypothesis on the regression of fluctuations in physical systems. It is shown that the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Shiktorov , E. Starikov , V. Gruzinskis , L. Reggiani , L. Varani , J. C. Vaissiere

The statistics of heat exchange between two classical or quantum finite systems initially prepared at different temperatures are shown to obey a fluctuation theorem.

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 Christopher Jarzynski , Daniel K. Wojcik

Fluctuation theorems establish exact relations for nonequilibrium dynamics, profoundly advancing the field of stochastic thermodynamics. In this work, we extend quantum fluctuation theorems beyond the traditional thermodynamic framework to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Kun Zhang , Mo-Yang Ni , Hai-Long Shi , Xiao-Hui Wang , Jin Wang

Fluctuation theorems are relations constraining the out-of-equilibrium fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities like the entropy production that were initially introduced for classical or quantum systems in contact with a thermal bath. Here…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-27 Sreenath K. Manikandan , Cyril Elouard , Andrew N. Jordan

Fluctuation theorems are a generalization of thermodynamics on small scales and provide the tools to characterize the fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities in non-equilibrium nanoscale systems. They are particularly important for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-04-03 Jan Gieseler , Romain Quidant , Christoph Dellago , Lukas Novotny

We study an arbitrary non-equilibrium dynamics of a quantum bipartite system coupled to a reservoir. For its characterization, we present a fluctuation theorem (FT) that explicitly addresses the quantum correlation of subsystems during the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Jung Jun Park , Hyunchul Nha , Sang Wook Kim , Vlatko Vedral

The concept of work is basic for statistical thermodynamics. To gain a fuller understanding of work and its (quantum) features, it needs to be represented as an average of a fluctuating quantity. Here I focus on the work done between two…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-19 A. E. Allahverdyan

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

At non-zero temperature classical systems exhibit statistical fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities arising from the variation of the system's initial conditions and its interaction with the environment. The fluctuating work, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Rui Sampaio , Samu Suomela , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Janet Anders , Thomas Philbin

We derive detailed and integral quantum fluctuation theorems for heat exchange in a quantum correlated bipartite thermal system using the framework of dynamic Bayesian networks. Contrary to the usual two-projective-measurement scheme that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Kaonan Micadei , Gabriel T. Landi , Eric Lutz

We discuss the quantum statistical fluctuations of energy in subsystems of hot relativistic gas for both spin-zero and spin half particles. We explicitly show the system size dependence of the quantum statistical fluctuation of energy. Our…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-06-15 Arpan Das

Fluctuation Theorems are central in stochastic thermodynamics, as they allow for quantifying the irreversibility of single trajectories. Although they have been experimentally checked in the classical regime, a practical demonstration in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-10-27 C. Elouard , N. K. Bernardes , A. R. R. Carvalho , M. F. Santos , A. Auffèves

We discuss the role of quantum coherence in the energy fluctuations of open quantum systems. To this aim, we introduce an operational protocol, to which we refer to as the end-point-measurement scheme, allowing to define the statistics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-23 S. Gherardini , A. Belenchia , M. Paternostro , A. Trombettoni

We derive a general fluctuation theorem for quantum maps. The theorem applies to a broad class of quantum dynamics, such as unitary evolution, decoherence, thermalization, and other types of evolution for quantum open systems. The theorem…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Gonzalo Manzano , Jordan M. Horowitz , Juan M. R. Parrondo

Based on trajectory dependent path probability formalism in state space, we derive generalized entropy production fluctuation relations for a quantum system in the presence of measurement and feedback. We have obtained these results for…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-04 Shubhashis Rana , Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

We extend the Exchange Fluctuation Theorem for energy exchange between thermal quantum systems beyond the assumption of molecular chaos, and describe the non-equilibrium exchange dynamics of correlated quantum states. The relation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-14 Sania Jevtic , David Jennings , Terry Rudolph , Yuji Hirono , Shojun Nakayama , Mio Murao