Landauer's principle in multipartite open quantum system dynamics
Abstract
We investigate the link between information and thermodynamics embodied by Landauer's principle in the open dynamics of a multipartite quantum system. Such irreversible dynamics is described in terms of a collisional model with a finite temperature reservoir. We demonstrate that Landauer's principle holds, for such a configuration, in a form that involves the flow of heat dissipated into the environment and the rate of change of the entropy of the system. Quite remarkably, such a principle for {\it heat and entropy power} can be explicitly linked to the rate of creation of correlations among the elements of the multipartite system and, in turn, the non-Markovian nature of their reduced evolution. Such features are illustrated in two exemplary cases.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1503.07837,
title = {Landauer's principle in multipartite open quantum system dynamics},
author = {S. Lorenzo and R. McCloskey and F. Ciccarello and M. Paternostro and G. M. Palma},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.07837},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, 3 figures, RevTeX4-1; Accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. Lett