On the speed of fluctuations around thermodynamic equilibrium

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/12/5/055021MaRDI QIDQ4594865zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Noah Linden, Sandu Popescu, Anthony J. Short, Andreas Winter

Publication date 27 November 2017

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1267

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: We study the speed of fluctuation of a quantum system around its thermodynamic equilibrium state, and show that the speed will be extremely small for almost all times in typical thermodynamic cases. The setting considered here is that of a quantum system couples to a bath, both jointly described as a closed system. This setting, is the same as the one considered in [N. Linden et al., Phys. Rev. E 79:061103 (2009)] and the ``thermodynamic equilibrium state refers to a situation that includes the usual thermodynamic equilibrium case, as well as far more general situations.

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