Emergence of equilibrium thermodynamic properties in quantum pure states. II. Analysis of a spin model system

Details Emergence of equilibrium thermodynamic properties in quantum pure states. II. Analysis of a spin model system Emergence of equilibrium thermodynamic properties in quantum pure states. II. Analysis of a spin model system

2009-10-08

arxiv.org/abs/0910.1568v2

J. Chem. Phys. 133, 034510 (2010)

Physics

Quantum Physics

30 pages, 10 figures

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.3456000

A system composed of identical spins and described by a quantum mechanical pure state is analyzed within the statistical framework presented in Part I of this work. We explicitly derive the typical values of the entropy, of the energy, and of the equilibrium reduced density matrix of a subsystem for the two different statistics introduced in Part I. In order to analyze their consistency with thermodynamics, these quantities of interest are evaluated in the limit of large number of components of the isolated system. The main results can be summarized as follows: typical values of the entropy and of the equilibrium reduced density matrix as functions of the internal energy in the fixed expectation energy ensemble do not satisfy the requirement of thermodynamics. On the contrary, the thermodynamical description is recovered from the random pure state ensemble (RPSE), provided that one considers systems large enough. The thermodynamic limit of the considered properties for the spin system reveals a number of important features. First canonical statistics (and thus, canonical typicality as long as the fluctuations around the average value are small) emerges without the need of assuming the microcanonical space for the global pure state. Moreover, we rigorously prove (i) the equivalence of the "global temperature," derived from the entropy equation of state, with the "local temperature" determining the canonical state of the subsystems; and (ii) the equivalence between the RPSE typical entropy and the canonical entropy for the overall system.

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