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Noncommutativity of observables is a central feature of quantum physics. It plays a fundamental role in the formulation of the uncertainty principle for complementary variables and strongly affects the laws of thermodynamics for systems…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Franklin L. S. Rodrigues , Eric Lutz

From the perspective of quantum thermodynamics, realisable measurements cost work and result in measurement devices that are not perfectly correlated with the measured systems. We investigate the consequences for the estimation of work in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Tiago Debarba , Gonzalo Manzano , Yelena Guryanova , Marcus Huber , Nicolai Friis

The fluctuation theorems have remained one of the cornerstones in the study of systems that are driven far out of equilibrium, and they provide strong constraints on the fraction of trajectories that behave atypically in light of the second…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-05 Sourabh Lahiri , A. M. Jayannavar

Recent theoretical predictions and experimental measurements have demonstrated that equilibrium free energy differences can be obtained from exponential averages of nonequilibrium work values. These results are similar in structure, but not…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Christopher Jarzynski

A system driven in the vicinity of its critical point by varying a relevant field in an arbitrary function of time is a generic system that possesses a long relaxation time compared with the driving time scale and thus represents a large…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-10-26 Baoquan Feng , Shuai Yin , Fan Zhong

This article traces the development of fluctuation theory and its deep connection to irreversibility, from equilibrium to near-equilibrium, and finally to far-from-equilibrium systems. Classical fluctuation theorems, which capture the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-30 Sounak Bandyopadhyay , Arnab Ghosh

We theoretically explore the Bochkov-Kuzovlev-Jarzynski-Crooks work theorems in a finite system subject to external control, which is coupled to a heat reservoir. We first elaborate the mechanical energy-balance between the system and the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-09-02 Chang Sub Kim

We review generalized Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations which are valid under general conditions even in ``non-standard systems'', e.g. out of equilibrium and/or without a Hamiltonian structure. The response functions can be expressed in…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-09-10 A. Sarracino , A. Vulpiani

Materials that are constantly driven out of thermodynamic equilibrium, such as active and living systems, typically violate the Einstein relation. This may arise from active contributions to particle fluctuations which are unrelated to the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-07 Benjamin Sorkin , Haim Diamant , Gil Ariel , Tomer Markovich

We give a perturbative analysis of Crooks relation and Jarzynski equality in an arbitrary driven quantum system weakly coupled to a heat bath. Invoking no efficient Hamiltonian nor any restriction on the form of the coupling, we derive the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-09-15 Yi Peng , Heng Fan

We show how Jarzynski relation can be exploited to analyze the nature of order-disorder and a bifurcation type dynamical transition in terms of a response function derived on the basis of work distribution over non-equilibrium paths between…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Deb Shankar Ray

We present a derivation of the Jarzynski identity and the Crooks fluctuation theorem for systems governed by deterministic dynamics that conserves the canonical distribution such as Hamiltonian dynamics, Nose-Hoover dynamics, Nose-Hoover…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Elisabeth Scholl-Paschinger , Christoph Dellago

We proved when random-variable fluctuations obey the central limit theorem the equality of the uncertainty relation corresponds to the thermodynamic equilibrium state. The inequality corresponds to the thermodynamic non-equilibrium state.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 You-gang Feng

We consider classical, interacting particles coupled to a thermal reservoir and subject to a local, time-varying potential while undergoing hops on a lattice. We impose detailed balance on the hopping rates and map the dynamics to the Fock…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-05-08 Andrew J. Baish , Benjamin P. Vollmayr-Lee

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

In this study, we rederive the fluctuation theorems in presence of feedback, by assuming the known Jarzynski equality and detailed fluctuation theorems. We first reproduce the already known work theorems for a classical system, and then…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 Sourabh Lahiri , Shubhashis Rana , A. M. Jayannavar

We define common thermodynamic concepts purely within the framework of general Markov chains and derive Jarzynski's equality and Crooks' fluctuation theorem in this setup. In particular, we regard the discrete time case that leads to an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-12-14 Pedro Hack , Sebastian Gottwald , Daniel A. Braun

Quantitative studies of irreversibility in statistical mechanics often involve the consideration of a reverse process, whose definition has been the object of many discussions, in particular for quantum mechanical systems. Here we show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Francesco Buscemi , Valerio Scarani

The first part of the paper is devoted to the foundations, that is the mathematical and physical justification, of equilibrium statistical mechanics. It is a pedagogical attempt, mostly based on Khinchin's presentation, which purpose is to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dragi Karevski

The fluctuation-dissipation (F-D) theorem is a fundamental result for systems near thermodynamic equilibrium, and justifies studies between microscopic and macroscopic properties. It states that the nonequilibrium relaxation dynamics is…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-03-13 Jianhua Xing