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Heat, work and entropy production: the statistical distribution of such quantities are constrained by the fluctuation theorems (FT), which reveal crucial properties about the nature of non-equilibrium dynamics. In this paper we report…

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The dynamics of qubits coupled to a harmonic oscillator with time-periodic coupling is investigated in the framework of Floquet theory. This system can be used to model nonadiabatic phenomena that require a periodic modulation of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Mirko Amico , Roman Ya. Kezerashvili

We present a new time-dependent Density Functional approach to study the relaxational dynamics of an assembly of interacting particles subject to thermal noise. Starting from the Langevin stochastic equations of motion for the velocities of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-31 Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi , Pedro Tarazona

We experimentally study the statistical properties of the energy fluxes between two trapped Brownian particles, interacting through dissipative hydrodynamic coupling, submitted to an effective temperature difference $\Delta T$, obtained by…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-17 A Bérut , A Imparato , A Petrosyan , S Ciliberto

We propose a setup for a quantitative test of the quantum fluctuation theorem. It consists of a quantum conductor, driven by an external voltage source, and a classical inductor-capacitor circuit. The work done on the system by the voltage…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-10-09 Y. Utsumi , D. S. Golubev , M. Marthaler , Gerd Schön , Kensuke Kobayashi

There are only a very few known relations in statistical dynamics that are valid for systems driven arbitrarily far-from-equilibrium. One of these is the fluctuation theorem, which places conditions on the entropy production probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-09-25 Gavin E. Crooks

A harmonic oscillator linearly coupled with a linear chain of Ising spins is investigated. The $N$ spins in the chain interact with their nearest neighbours with a coupling constant proportional to the oscillator position and to $N^{-1/2}$,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-06-22 A. Prados , L. L. Bonilla , A. Carpio

The Fluctuation-Dissipation Theorem (FDT) is a powerful tool to estimate the thermal noise of physical systems in equilibrium. In general however, thermal equilibrium is an approximation, or cannot be assumed at all. A more general…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-10-08 Alex Fontana , Richard Pedurand , Vincent Dolique , Ghaouti Hansali , Ludovic Bellon

In the thermodynamics of nanoscopic systems the relation between classical and quantum mechanical description is of particular importance. To scrutinize this correspondence we study an anharmonic oscillator driven by a periodic external…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Mattes Heerwagen , Andreas Engel

Mesoscopic systems provide us a unique experimental stage to address non-equilibrium quantum statistical physics. By using a simple tunneling model, we describe the electron exchange process via a quantum coherent conductor between two…

Using recent fluctuation theorems from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics, we extend the theory for voltage fluctuations in electric circuits to power and heat fluctuations. They could be of particular relevance for the functioning of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. van Zon , S. Ciliberto , E. G. D. Cohen

Long-ranged correlations generically exist in non-equilibrium fluid systems. In the case of a non-equilibrium steady state caused by a temperature gradient the correlations are especially long-ranged and strong. The anomalous light…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-11-23 T. R. Kirkpatrick , J. R. Dorfman , J. V. Sengers

Understanding how electrolyte solutions behave out of thermal equilibrium is a long-standing endeavor in many areas of chemistry and biology. Although mean-field theories are widely used to model the dynamics of electrolytes, it is also…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-08-11 Saeed Mahdisoltani , Ramin Golestanian

The validity of the Fluctuation Relations (FR) for systems in a constant magnetic field is investigated. Recently introduced time-reversal symmetries that hold in presence of static electric and magnetic fields and of deterministic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-09-16 Alessandro Coretti , Lamberto Rondoni , Sara Bonella

The experimental verification of the fluctuation theorem by Wang et al. is explained in terms of a simple Langevin dynamics. This implies that the entropy consuming trajectories found by Wang et al. are fluctuations generated by a random…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Tasaki , I. Terasaki , T. Monnai

A Fluctuation Theorem (FT), both Classical and Quantum, describes the large-deviations in the approach to equilibrium of an isolated quasi-integrable system. Two characteristics make it unusual: (i) it concerns the internal dynamics of an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-11-14 Tomer Goldfriend , Jorge Kurchan

The application of thermodynamic reasoning in the study of learning systems has a long tradition. Recently, new tools relating perfect thermodynamic adaptation to the adaptation process have been developed. These results, known as…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-09-07 Pedro Hack , Cecilia Lindig-Leon , Sebastian Gottwald , Daniel A. Braun

The oscillation of fluctuation with two state observables is investigated. Following the idea of Ohga, et al. [arXiv:2303.13116], we find that the fluctuation oscillation relative to their autocorrelations is bounded from above by the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-11 Naoto Shiraishi

We study fluctuations in diffusion-limited reaction systems driven out of their stationary state. Using a numerically exact method, we investigate fluctuation ratios in various systems which differ by their level of violation of microscopic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sven Dorosz , Michel Pleimling

We study an arbitrary non-equilibrium dynamics of a quantum bipartite system coupled to a reservoir. For its characterization, we present a fluctuation theorem (FT) that explicitly addresses the quantum correlation of subsystems during the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-22 Jung Jun Park , Hyunchul Nha , Sang Wook Kim , Vlatko Vedral