Unitarity, ergodicity and quantum thermodynamics

DOI10.1088/1751-8113/40/26/F01zbMATH Open1118.82020arXivquant-ph/0702009OpenAlexW3122575161WikidataQ58981591 ScholiaQ58981591MaRDI QIDQ5297510FDOQ5297510

Authors: Dorje C. Brody, Daniel W. Hook, Lane P. Hughston 

Publication date: 11 July 2007

Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This paper is concerned with the ergodic subspaces of the state spaces of isolated quantum systems. We prove a new ergodic theorem for closed quantum systems which shows that the equilibrium state of the system takes the form of a grand canonical density matrix involving a complete commuting set of observables including the Hamiltonian. The result obtained, which is derived for a generic finite-dimensional quantum system, shows that the equilibrium state arising from unitary evolution is always expressible in the canonical form, without the consideration of a system-bath decomposition.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0702009

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zbMATH Keywords

ergodic theoremKoopman-von Neumann-Birkhoff theoremsystem-bath decomposition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Hamilton's equations (70H05) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30)

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