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We establish the fluctuation theorem in the presence of information exchange between a nonequilibrium system and other degrees of freedom such as an observer and a feedback controller, where the amount of information exchange is added to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Takahiro Sagawa , Masahito Ueda

Fluctuation theorems and the second law of thermodynamics are powerful relations constraining the behavior of out-of-equilibrium systems. While there exist generalizations of these relations to feedback controlled quantum systems, their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Kacper Prech , Patrick P. Potts

A theoretical study is reported of electron transport at finite temperature in a double quantum dot (DQD) capacitively coupled to a quantum point contact (QPC). Starting from a Hamiltonian model, a master equation is obtained for the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Gregory Bulnes Cuetara , Massimiliano Esposito , Gernot Schaller , Pierre Gaspard

We present a fluctuation theorem for quantum bipartite systems in which the subsystems exchange information with each other. Our information fluctuation theorem includes correlations by introducing a quantum mechanical mutual information…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-24 Jung Jun Park , Sang Wook Kim , Vlatko Vedral

We prove the second law of thermodynamics and the nonequilibirum fluctuation theorem for pure quantum states.The entire system obeys reversible unitary dynamics, where the initial state of the heat bath is not the canonical distribution but…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-13 Eiki Iyoda , Kazuya Kaneko , Takahiro Sagawa

Quantum scattering is used ubiquitously in both experimental and theoretical physics across a wide range of disciplines, from high-energy physics to mesoscopic physics. In this work, we uncover universal relations for the energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Samuel L. Jacob , John Goold , Gabriel T. Landi , Felipe Barra

The nonequilibrium fluctuation relation is a cornerstone of quantum thermodynamics. It is widely believed that the system-bath heat exchange obeys the famous Jarzynski-W\'{o}jcik fluctuation theorem. However, this theorem is established in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-01 Wei Wu , Jun-Hong An

We study thermal fluctuation corrections to charge and heat conductivity in systems with locally conserved energy and charge, but without locally conserved momentum. Thermal fluctuations may naturally lead to a lower bound on diffusion…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-22 Pavel Kovtun

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

We prove a general inequality between the charge current and its fluctuations valid for any non-interacting coherent electronic conductor and for any stationary out-of-equilibrium condition, thereby going beyond established…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Ludovico Tesser , Janine Splettstoesser

Thermodynamic principles are often deceptively simple and yet surprisingly powerful. We show how a simple rule, such as the net flow of energy in and out of a moving atom under nonequilibrium steady state condition, can expose the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-30 Daniel Reiche , Francesco Intravaia , Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Kurt Busch , Bei-Lok Hu

We study the fluctuations of generic currents in multi-terminal, multi-channel quantum transport settings. In the quantum regime, these fluctuations and the resulting precision differ strongly depending on whether the device is of fermionic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-04-08 Didrik Palmqvist , Ludovico Tesser , Janine Splettstoesser

We derive a universal bound on the large-deviation functions of particle currents in coherent conductors. This bound depends only on the mean value of the relevant current and the total rate of entropy production required to maintain a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-24 Kay Brandner , Keiji Saito

In this review paper, we discuss the statistical description in non-equilibrium regimes of energy fluctuations originated by the interaction between a quantum system and a measurement apparatus applying a sequence of repeated quantum…

Uncertainty relations state that there exist certain incompatible measurements, to which the outcomes cannot be simultaneously predicted. While the exact incompatibility of quantum measurements dictated by such uncertainty relations can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Esther Hänggi , Stephanie Wehner

We investigate the full counting statistics of charge transport in $U(1)$-symmetric random unitary circuits. We consider an initial mixed state prepared with a chemical potential imbalance between the left and right halves of the system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-04 Ewan McCulloch , Jacopo De Nardis , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur

Thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs) bound the precision of currents by entropy production, but quantum transport of noncommuting (non-Abelian) charges challenges standard formulations because different charge components cannot be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Domingos S. P. Salazar

We study the heat transfer between two finite quantum systems initially at different temperatures. We find that a recently proposed fluctuation theorem for heat exchange, namely the exchange fluctuation theorem [C. Jarzynski and D. K.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-07-03 Shiho Akagawa , Naomichi Hatano

Anomalous finite-temperature transport has recently been observed in numerical studies of various integrable models in one dimension; these models share the feature of being invariant under a continuous non-abelian global symmetry. This…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-04 Enej Ilievski , Jacopo De Nardis , Sarang Gopalakrishnan , Romain Vasseur , Brayden Ware

We demonstrate that the charge value of transport mechanisms heavily impacts the validity of thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs). Specifically, we show within the framework of full counting statistics, that the recently established…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 David Christian Ohnmacht , Wolfgang Belzig , Juan Carlos Cuevas