Fluctuation theorems in driven open quantum systems

Details Fluctuation theorems in driven open quantum systems Fluctuation theorems in driven open quantum systems

2008-11-06

arxiv.org/abs/0811.0973v1

J. Stat. Mech. (2009) P02025

Physics

Condensed Matter

Statistical Mechanics

12 pages

Scientific paper

10.1088/1742-5468/2009/02/P02025

The characteristic function for the joint measurement of the changes of two commuting observables upon an external forcing of a quantum system is derived. In particular, the statistics of the internal energy, the exchanged heat and the work of a quantum system that {\it weakly} couples to its environment is determined in terms of the energy changes of the system and the environment due to the action of a classical, external force on the system. If the system and environment initially are in a canonical equilibrium, the work performed on the system is shown to satisfy the Tasaki-Crooks theorem and the Jarzynski equality.

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