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Entropy production is arguably the most universally applicable measure of non-equilibrium behavior, particularly for systems coupled to a heat bath. This setting encompasses driven soft matter as well as biomolecular, biochemical, and…

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We investigate a quantum dynamical entropy of one-dimesional quantum spin systems. We show that the dynamical entropy is bounded from above by a quantity which is related with group velocity determined by the interaction and mean entropy of…

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We report a model-independent measurement of the entropy, energy, and critical temperature of a degenerate, strongly interacting Fermi gas of atoms. The total energy is determined from the mean square cloud size in the strongly interacting…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-03-24 L. Luo , B. Clancy , J. Joseph , J. Kinast , J. E. Thomas

Potential applications of quantum dots in the nanotechnology industry make these systems an important field of study in various areas of physics. In particular, thermodynamics has a significant role in technological innovations. With this…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Luís Fernando C. Pereira , Edilberto O. Silva

We measure the temperature of a mesoscopic system consisting of an ultra-dilute two dimensional electron gas at the $Si/SiO_2$ interface in a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) quantum dot by means of the capture and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-18 Enrico Prati , Matteo Belli , Marco Fanciulli , Giorgio Ferrari

We explore the relation between entanglement entropy of quantum many body systems and the distribution of corresponding, properly selected, observables. Such a relation is necessary to actually measure the entanglement entropy. We show that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Israel Klich , Gil Refael , Alessandro Silva

We investigate the dynamics of electron spin qubits in quantum dots. Measurement of the qubit state is realized by a charge current through the dot. The dynamics is described in the framework of the quantum trajectory approach, widely used…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Holger Schaefers , Walter T. Strunz

Understanding the limitations imposed by noise on current and next-generation quantum devices is a crucial step towards demonstrating practical quantum advantage. In this work, we investigate the accumulation of entropy density as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-16 Marine Demarty , James Mills , Kenza Hammam , Raul Garcia-Patron

The concept of entanglement entropy appears in multiple contexts, from black hole physics to quantum information theory, where it measures the entanglement of quantum states. We investigate the entanglement entropy in a simple model, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 Karyn Le Hur

We conduct a numerical investigation of the dynamics of the central spin model in the presence of measurement processes. This model holds promise for experimental exploration due to its topology, which facilitates the natural distinction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-04 V. V. Belov , W. V. Pogosov

Entropic measures provide analytic tools to help us understand correlation in quantum systems. In our previous work, we calculated linear entropy and von Neumann entropy as entanglement measures for the ground state and lower lying excited…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-21 Chien-Hao Lin , Yew Kam Ho

A microscopic understanding of the thermodynamic entropy in quantum systems has been a mystery ever since the invention of quantum mechanics. In classical physics, this entropy is believed to be the logarithm of the volume of phase space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-08 J. M. Deutsch , Haibin Li , Auditya Sharma

We describe a novel method to obtain thermodynamic properties of quantum systems using Baysian Inference -- Maximum Entropy techniques. The method is applicable to energy values sampled at a discrete set of temperatures from Quantum Monte…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Carey Huscroft , Richard Gass , Mark Jarrell

We numerically determine the entropy for heat-conducting states, which is connected to the so-called excess heat considered as a basic quantity for steady-state thermodynamics in nonequilibrium. We adopt an efficient method to estimate the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-17 Yoshiyuki Chiba , Naoko Nakagawa

Non-linear properties of quantum states, such as entropy or entanglement, quantify important physical resources and are frequently used in quantum information science. They are usually calculated from a full description of a quantum state,…

Mesoscopic circuit elements such as quantum dots and quantum point contacts (QPCs) offer a uniquely controllable platform for engineering complex quantum devices, whose tunability makes them ideal for generating and investigating…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-07 Yuan Ren , Joshua Folk , Yigal Meir , Tomaz Rejec , Werner Wegscheider

The entropy of a quantum system is a measure of its randomness, and has applications in measuring quantum entanglement. We study the problem of measuring the von Neumann entropy, $S(\rho)$, and R\'enyi entropy, $S_\alpha(\rho)$ of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jayadev Acharya , Ibrahim Issa , Nirmal V. Shende , Aaron B. Wagner

We propose a method to infer the single-particle entropy of bosonic atoms in an optical lattice and to study the local evolution of entropy, spin squeezing, and entropic inequalities for entanglement detection in such systems. This method…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-09-23 F. Cattani , C. Gross , M. K. Oberthaler , J. Ruostekoski

By making use of a recently proposed framework for the inference of thermodynamic irreversibility in bosonic quantum systems, we experimentally measure and characterize the entropy production rates in the non-equilibrium steady state of two…

The paper analyzes the entropy of a system composed by non-interacting and indistinguishable particles whose quantum state numbers are modelled as independent and identically distributed classical random variables. The crucial observation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-05-18 Arnaldo Spalvieri