Complete positivity and thermodynamics in a driven open quantum system

DOI10.1007/S10955-015-1210-4MaRDI QIDQ888262zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Giuseppe Argentieri, Marco Pezzutto, F. Benatti, R. Floreanini

Publication date 30 October 2015

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00864

zbMATH Keywords

complete positivityopen quantum systemssecond law of thermodynamics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10) Quantum stochastic calculus (81S25)

Abstract: While it is well known that complete positivity guarantees the fulfilment of the second law of thermodynamics, its possible violations have never been proposed as a check of the complete positivity of a given open quantum dynamics. We hereby consider an open quantum micro-circuit, effectively describable as a two-level open quantum system, whose asymptotic current might be experimentally accessible. This latter could indeed be used to discriminate between its possible non-completely positive Redfield dynamics and a completely positive one obtained by standard weak-coupling limit techniques, at the same time verifying the fate of the second law of thermodynamics in such a context.

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