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The uncertainty principle is a cornerstone of modern physics, and its implications have a fundamental impact on theoretical and applied quantum mechanics. The aim of this thesis is to study and apply the uncertainty relations between time…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-04-21 Francesco Campaioli

The attempt to gain a theoretical understanding of the concept of time in quantum mechanics has triggered significant progress towards the search for faster and more efficient quantum technologies. One of such advances consists in the…

Entropy production plays an important role in the regulation and stability of active matter systems, and its rate quantifies the nonequilibrium nature of these systems. However, entropy production is hard to be experimentally estimated even…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-10-23 Ruicheng Bao , Zhonghuai Hou

We derive a thermodynamic uncertainty relation for first passage processes in quantum Markov chains. We consider first passage processes that stop after a fixed number of jumps, which contrasts with typical quantum Markov chains which end…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-21 Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We show that a proper expression of the uncertainty relation for a pair of canonically-conjugate continuous variables relies on entropy power, a standard notion in Shannon information theory for real-valued signals. The resulting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-16 Anaelle Hertz , Michael G. Jabbour , Nicolas J. Cerf

The universal bound on specific entropy was originally inferred from black hole thermodynamics. We here show from classical thermodynamics alone that for a system at fixed volume or fixed pressure, the ratio of entropy to nonrelativistic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-05-29 Jacob D. Bekenstein

Two widely used model-free lower bounds on the steady-state entropy production rate of a continuous-time Markov jump process are the thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) bound $\sigma_\text{TUR}$, derived from the mean and variance of a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-01-08 Jie Gu

Entropy production is the crucial quantity characterizing irreversible phenomena and the second law of thermodynamics. Yet, a ubiquitous definition eludes consensus. Given that entropy production arises from incomplete access to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-26 Adalberto D. Varizi , Pedro S. Correia

The thermodynamics of quantum systems coupled to periodically modulated heat baths and work reservoirs is developed. By identifying affinities and fluxes, the first and second law are formulated consistently. In the linear response regime,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kay Brandner , Udo Seifert

Fluctuation theorems establish that thermodynamic processes at the microscale can occasionally result in negative entropy production. At the microscale, another distinct possibility becomes more likely: processes in which no entropy is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-11 Abhaya S. Hegde , André M. Timpanaro , Gabriel T. Landi

We propose a mathematically rigorous unified framework for hybrid quantum mechanics that systematically combines algebraic deformation and spatial non-locality within a single operator formalism. By constructing a self-adjoint hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-29 M. W. AlMasri

Quantum information-theoretic approach has been identified as a way to understand the foundations of quantum mechanics as early as 1950 due to Shannon. However there hasn't been enough advancement or rigorous development of the subject. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-04 Shubhayan Sarkar

We address the emergence of entropy production in the non-equilibrium process of an open quantum system from the viewpoint of the environment. By making use of a dilation-based approach akin to Stinespring theorem, we derive an expression…

Uncertainty relations represent a foundational principle in quantum mechanics, imposing inherent limits on the precision with which \textit{mechanically} conjugate variables such as position and momentum can be simultaneously determined.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Ye-Ming Meng , Zhe-Yu Shi

Thermodynamics serves as a universal means for studying physical systems from an energy perspective. In recent years, with the establishment of the field of stochastic and quantum thermodynamics, the ideas of thermodynamics have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-02-07 Tan Van Vu , Keiji Saito

Based on a variational expression for the steady-state entropy production rate in overdamped Langevin dynamics, we derive concrete upper bounds on the entropy production rate in various physical settings. For particles in a thermal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-10-30 Andreas Dechant

Relating thermodynamic and kinetic properties is a conceptual challenge with many practical benefits. Here, based on first principles, we derive a rigorous inequality relating the entropy and the dynamic propagator of particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-11 Benjamin Sorkin , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel

Bounds to the speed of evolution of a quantum system are of fundamental interest in quantum metrology, quantum chemical dynamics and quantum computation. We derive a time-energy uncertainty relation for open quantum systems undergoing a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-05 A. del Campo , I. L. Egusquiza , M. B. Plenio , S. F. Huelga

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations (TURs) set universal bounds linking current fluctuations to entropy production in nonequilibrium steady states. Their multidimensional generalization (MTUR) introduces matrix inequalities connecting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sergi Vidal , Alba Mayor-Fernandez , Rosa Lopez

A generalization of the thermodynamic uncertainty relations is proposed. It is done by introducing of an additional term proportional to the interior energy into the standard thermodynamic uncertainty relation that leads to existence of the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Shalyt-Margolin , A. Ya. Tregubovich
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