Emergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system
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19/10/2012
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Resumo |
We study the statistics of the work done, the fluctuation relations and the irreversible entropy production in a quantum many-body system subject to the sudden quench of a control parameter. By treating the quench as a thermodynamic transformation we show that the emergence of irreversibility in the nonequilibrium dynamics of closed many-body quantum systems can be accurately characterized. We demonstrate our ideas by considering a transverse quantum Ising model that is taken out of equilibrium by the instantaneous switching of the transverse field. |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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Dorner , R , Goold , J , Cormick , C , Paternostro , M & Vedral , V 2012 , ' Emergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system ' Physical Review Letters , vol 109 , no. 16 , 160601 . DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.160601 |
Palavras-Chave | #/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100 #Physics and Astronomy(all) |
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