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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

The Jarzynski equality (JE), which relates works of non-equilibrium trajectories to the free energy difference of the initial and final states of the non-equilibrium process, provides an efficient way to calculate free energies of systems…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-20 Biao Wan , Cheng Yang , Yanting Wang , Xin Zhou

We consider a single Josephson junction in the presence of time varying gate charge, and examine the nonequilibrium work done by the charge control in the framework of fluctuation theorems. We obtain the probability distribution functions…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-07 Su Do Yi , Beom Jun Kim , Juyeon Yi

This paper addresses fundamental aspects of statistical mechanics such as the motivation of a classical state space with spontaneous transitions, the meaning of non-equilibrium in the context of thermalization, and the justification of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-05-31 Haye Hinrichsen , Christian Gogolin , Peter Janotta

The study of quantum dynamics featuring memory effects has always been a topic of interest within the theory of open quantum system, which is concerned about providing useful conceptual and theoretical tools for the description of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-25 Bassano Vacchini

The solar core, because of its density and temperature, is not a weakly-interacting or a high-temperature plasma. Collective effects have time scales comparable to the average time between collisions, and the microfield distribution…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Gervino , G. Kaniadakis , A. Lavagno , M. Lissia , P. Quarati

Nonequilibrium work-Hamiltonian connection for a microstate plays a central role in diverse branches of statistical thermodynamics (fluctuation theorems, quantum thermodynamics, stochastic thermodynamics, etc.). We show that the change in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-03 P. D. Gujrati

According to the Jarzynski theorem, equilibrium free energy differences can be calculated from the statistics of work carried out during non-equilibrium transformations. Although exact, this approach can be plagued by large statistical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Wolfgang Lechner , Christoph Dellago

A living non-Newtonian matter like the cell cortex and tissues are driven out-of-equilibrium at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The stochastic dynamics of a particle embedded in such a medium are non-Markovian, given by a generalized…

Biological Physics · Physics 2020-06-30 Amit Singh Vishen

Memory effects in non-Markovian dynamics are often diagnosed either via quantum-correlation revivals or via non-monotonic classical information measures, yet a unified minimal framework comparing their ``backflow phases'' is still lacking.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-28 Koichi Nakagawa

Controlling the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems is essential in quantum information technology since it plays a crucial role in preserving quantum memory. Albeit in many realistic scenarios the quantum system can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-15 Zhong-Xiao Man , Yun-Jie Xia , Rosario Lo Franco

Memoryless processes are ubiquitous in nature, in contrast with the mathematics of open systems theory, which states that non-Markovian processes should be the norm. This discrepancy is usually addressed by subjectively making the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-10 Pedro Figueroa-Romero , Felix A. Pollock , Kavan Modi

Non-Markovian evolution in open quantum systems is often characterized in terms of the backflow of information from environment to system and is thus an important facet in investigating the performance and robustness of quantum information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Himadri Shekhar Dhar , Manabendra Nath Bera , Gerardo Adesso

In this paper we develop a generalized formalism for equilibrium thermodynamic systems when an information is shared between the system and the reservoir. The information results in a correction to the entropy of the system. This extension…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-10 Alessio Gagliardi , Aldo Di Carlo

Closely related to the laws of thermodynamics, the detection and quantification of disequilibria are crucial in unraveling the complexities of nature, particularly those beneath observable layers. Theoretical developments in nonequilibrium…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-07-23 Pedro E. Harunari

Consider local dephasing processes of a qubit that interacts with a structured reservoir of frequency modes or a thermal bath, with Ohmic-like spectral density (SD). It is known that non-Markovian evolution appears uniquely above a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-08 Filippo Giraldi

Entropy production and the detailed fluctuation theorem are of fundamental importance for thermodynamic processes. In this paper, we study the multiple entropy production for multitime quantum processes in a unified framework. For closed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-27 Zhiqiang Huang

The information encoded into an open quantum system that evolves under a Markovian dynamics is always monotonically non-increasing. Nonetheless, for a given quantifier of the information contained in the system, it is in general not clear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-17 Dario De Santis , Markus Johansson

There have been two distinct formalisms of thermodynamics of information: One is the measurement-feedback formalism, which concerns bipartite systems with measurement and feedback processes, and the other is the information reservoir…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-01-27 Naoto Shiraishi , Takumi Matsumoto , Takahiro Sagawa

The information shared among observables representing processes of interest is traditionally evaluated in terms of macroscale measures characterizing aggregate properties of the underlying processes and their interactions. Traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-31 Rui A. P. Perdigão