Entropy flow in near-critical quantum circuits

DOI10.1007/S10955-017-1751-9zbMATH Open1371.81078arXivcond-mat/0505084OpenAlexW3099846241MaRDI QIDQ2401482FDOQ2401482

Authors: Daniel Harry Friedan 

Publication date: 8 September 2017

Published in: Journal of Statistical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Near-critical quantum circuits are ideal physical systems for asymptotically large-scale quantum computers, because their low energy collective excitations evolve reversibly, effectively isolated from the environment. The design of reversible computers is constrained by the laws governing entropy flow within the computer. In near-critical quantum circuits, entropy flows as a locally conserved quantum current, obeying circuit laws analogous to the electric circuit laws. The quantum entropy current is just the energy current divided by the temperature. A quantum circuit made from a near-critical system (of conventional type) is described by a relativistic 1+1 dimensional relativistic quantum field theory on the circuit. The universal properties of the energy-momentum tensor constrain the entropy flow characteristics of the circuit components: the entropic conductivity of the quantum wires and the entropic admittance of the quantum circuit junctions. For example, near-critical quantum wires are always resistanceless inductors for entropy. A universal formula is derived for the entropic conductivity: sigma_S(omega)=iv^{2}S/omega T, where omega is the frequency, T the temperature, S the equilibrium entropy density and v the velocity of `light'. The thermal conductivity is Real(Tsigma_S(omega))=pi v^{2}Sdelta(omega). The thermal Drude weight is, universally, v^{2}S. This gives a way to measure the entropy density directly.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0505084

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum statistical mechanicsquantum transportquantum computersentropy transport

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Quantum computation (81P68) Model quantum field theories (81T10) Renormalization group methods applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T17) Analytic circuit theory (94C05) Network design and communication in computer systems (68M10) Dynamic critical phenomena in statistical mechanics (82C27) Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Quantum waveguides, quantum wires (82D77) Dynamic renormalization group methods applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C28)

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