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Experiments on the direction-resolved full-counting statistics of single-electron tunneling allow testing the fundamentally important Fluctuation Theorem (FT). At the same time, the FT provides a frame for analyzing such data. Here we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-12-01 Y. Utsumi , D. S. Golubev , M. Marthaler , T. Fujisawa , Gerd Schön

We demonstrate that the fluctuation theorem of Gallavotti and Cohen can be used to characterize the class of dynamics that arises in nonthermal systems of collectively interacting particles driven over random quenched disorder. By observing…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-12-05 J. A. Drocco , C. J. Olson Reichhardt , C. Reichhardt

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

Firstly the fluctuation theorems (FT) for expended work in a driven nonequilibrium system, isolated or thermostatted, together with the ensuing Jarzynski work-energy (W-E) relationships, will be discussed and reobtained. Secondly, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-31 Carolyne M. Van Vliet

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

The total entropy production generated by the dynamics of an externally driven systems exchanging energy and matter with multiple reservoirs and described by a master equation is expressed as the sum of three contributions, each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Upendra Harbola , Shaul Mukamel

Based on the concepts of the quantum field theory of virtual photons as quanta of electromagnetic interaction, we discuss the physical content of the phenomena underlying the principle of quantum uncertainties. We consider the features of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-04 V. N. Murzin , L. Yu. Shchurova

The classical Jarzynski equality establishes an exact relation between the stochastic work performed on a system driven out of thermal equilibrium and the free energy difference in a corresponding quasi-static process. This fluctuation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Konstantin Beyer , Walter T. Strunz

Thermodynamic uncertainty principles make up one of the few rare anchors in the largely uncharted waters of nonequilibrium systems, the fluctuation theorems being the more familiar. In this work we aim to trace the uncertainties of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-08-02 Hang Dong , Daniel Reiche , Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Bei-Lok Hu

In this paper we expand our previous investigation of a quantum particle subject to the action of a random potential plus a fixed harmonic potential at a finite temperature T. In the classical limit the system reduces to a well-known…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-28 Yadin Y. Goldschmidt

When an isolated quantum system is driven out of equilibrium, expectation values of general observables start oscillating in time. This article reviews the general theory of such temporal fluctuations. We first survey some results on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Lorenzo Campos Venuti , Paolo Zanardi

Quantum simulation uses a well-known quantum system to predict the behavior of another quantum system. Certain limitations in this technique arise, however, when applied to specific problems, as we demonstrate with a theoretical and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Kenneth R. Brown , Robert J. Clark , Isaac L. Chuang

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 physical world obeys the rules of quantum, as opposed to classical, physics. Since the playing of any particular game requires physical resources, the question arises as to how Game Theory itself would change if it were extended into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Chiu Fan Lee , Neil F. Johnson

The uncertainty principle limits quantum states such that when one observable takes predictable values there must be some other mutually unbiased observables which take uniformly random values. We show that this restrictive condition plays…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-08-12 Oscar C. O. Dahlsten , Andrew J. P. Garner , Vlatko Vedral

We study nonequilibrium fluctuation theorems in the presence of a time-reversal symmetry-breaking field and nonconservative forces, in a stochastic as well as a deterministic set up. We consider a system and a heat bath, called the combined…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-02-22 Punyabrata Pradhan

Fluctuation theorems provide universal constraints on nonequilibrium energy and entropy fluctuations, making them a natural framework to assess how and to what extent quantum resources become thermodynamically relevant. We develop a unified…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-19 Sukrut Mondkar , Sayan Mondal , Ujjwal Sen

Fluctuation theorems (FTs) quantify the thermodynamic reversibility of a system, and for deterministic systems they are defined in terms of the dissipation function. However, in a nonequilibrium steady state of deterministic dynamics, the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Stephen Sanderson , Charlotte F. Petersen , Debra J. Searles

We study the quantum fluctuation theorem in the one-time measurement (OTM) scheme, where the work distribution of the backward process has been lacking and which is considered to be more informative than the two-time measurement (TTM)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-20 Kenji Maeda , Tharon Holdsworth , Sebastian Deffner , Akira Sone

This study discusses the quantum behavior of a particle, which is controlled by fluctuations in the physical space-time (ST) variables, rather than provides a novel interpretation of quantum theory. The fluctuations, i.e., inhomogeneities…

General Physics · Physics 2012-06-15 Valery Egorushkin