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Microscopic analysis of the microscopic reversibility in quantum systems

Statistical Mechanics 2015-05-28 v3 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We investigate the robustness of the microscopic reversibility in open quantum systems which is discussed by Monnai [arXiv:1106.1982 (2011)]. We derive an exact relation between the forward transition probability and the reversed transition probability in the case of a general measurement basis. We show that the microscopic reversibility acquires some corrections in general and discuss the physical meaning of the corrections. Under certain processes, some of the correction terms vanish and we numerically confirmed that the remaining correction term becomes negligible; the microscopic reversibility almost holds even when the local system cannot be regarded as macroscopic.

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@article{arxiv.1106.3788,
  title  = {Microscopic analysis of the microscopic reversibility in quantum systems},
  author = {Tatsuro Kawamoto},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.3788},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12 pages, 10 figures

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