Identities for entropy change associated with the time-evolution of an open system

DOI10.1007/S10701-015-9908-3MaRDI QIDQ493672zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hiroki Majima, Akira Suzuki

Publication date 4 September 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.04864

zbMATH Keywords

open quantum systemsentropy productionentropy operatorevolutionary superoperatorimaginary-time formulationreal-time formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Open systems, reduced dynamics, master equations, decoherence (81S22) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35)

Abstract: A general relation between entropy and an evolutionary superoperator is derived based on the theory of the real-time formulation. The formulation establishing the relation relies only on the framework of quantum statistical mechanics and the standard definition of the von Neumann entropy. Applying the theory of the imaginary-time formulation, a similar relation is obtained for the entropy change due to the change in reservoir temperatures. To show the usefulness of these formulas, we derived the expression for the entropy production induced by some dissipation in an open quantum system as the exemplary model system.

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