Thermodynamical Versus Optical Complementarity

Details Thermodynamical Versus Optical Complementarity Thermodynamical Versus Optical Complementarity

2005-01-04

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0501015v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

4 pages, 2 figures

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We establish correspondence between macroscopic thermodynamical quantities and complementarity in wave interference. The well known visibility and predictability in a double slit--like experiment are shown to be connected to magnetic susceptibility and magnetization of a general interacting spin chain. This gives us the ability to analyze the tradeoff between thermodynamical quantities in the same information--theoretic way that is used in analyzing the wave--particle duality. We thus obtain new physical insights into usually complicated thermodynamical models, such as viewing a phase transition simply as a change from an effective single slit diffraction to a double slit interference.

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