Finite size bath in qubit thermodynamics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
2016-05-04 v1 Quantum Physics
Abstract
We discuss a qubit weakly coupled to a finite-size heat bath (calorimeter) from the point of view of quantum thermodynamics. The energy deposited to this environment together with the state of the qubit provides a basis to analyze the heat and work statistics of this closed combined system. We present results on two representative models, where the bath is composed of two-level systems or harmonic oscillators, respectively. Finally, we derive results for an open quantum system composed of the above qubit plus finite-size bath, but now the latter is coupled to a practically infinite bath of the same nature of oscillators or two-level systems.
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@article{arxiv.1602.00474,
title = {Finite size bath in qubit thermodynamics},
author = {J. P. Pekola and S. Suomela and Y. M. Galperin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.00474},
year = {2016}
}
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8 pages