The Exchange Fluctuation Theorem in Quantum Mechanics

DOI10.1143/PTP.121.1157zbMATH Open1173.81355arXiv0904.1443MaRDI QIDQ3399405FDOQ3399405

Authors: Shiho Akagawa, Naomichi Hatano 

Publication date: 12 October 2009

Published in: Progress of Theoretical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study the heat transfer between two finite quantum systems initially at different temperatures. We find that a recently proposed fluctuation theorem for heat exchange, namely the exchange fluctuation theorem [C. Jarzynski and D. K. Wojcik, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 230602 (2004)], does not generally hold in the presence of a finite heat transfer as in the original form proved for weak coupling. As the coupling is weakened, the deviation from the theorem and the heat transfer vanish in the same order of the coupling. We then discover a condition for the exchange fluctuation theorem to hold in the presence of a finite heat transfer, namely the commutable-coupling condition. We explicitly calculate the deviation from the exchange fluctuation theorem as well as the heat transfer for simple models. We confirm for the models that the deviation indeed has a finite value as far as the coupling between the two systems is finite except for the special point of the commutable-coupling condition. We also confirm analytically that the commutable-coupling condition indeed lets the exchange fluctuation theorem hold exactly under a finite heat transfer.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0904.1443

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Closed and approximate solutions to the Schrödinger, Dirac, Klein-Gordon and other equations of quantum mechanics (81Q05) Molecular physics (81V55) Applications of statistical mechanics to specific types of physical systems (82D99)

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