Semi-classical work and quantum work identities in Weyl representation
Quantum Physics
2020-09-25 v2 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We derive a semi-classical nonequilibrium work identity by applying the Wigner-Weyl quantization scheme to the Jarzynski identity for a classical Hamiltonian. This allows us, to the leading order in , to overcome the problem of defining the concept of work in quantum mechanics. We propose a geometric interpretation of this semi-classical relation in terms of trajectories in a complex phase space and illustrate it with the exactly solvable case of the quantum harmonic oscillator.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1912.04969,
title = {Semi-classical work and quantum work identities in Weyl representation},
author = {O. Brodier and K. Mallick and A. M. Ozorio de Almeida},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1912.04969},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
19 pages, 4 figures