Publication Date:
2017-09-06
Description:
Author(s): Eiki Iyoda, Kazuya Kaneko, and Takahiro Sagawa We prove the second law of thermodynamics and the nonequilibrium fluctuation theorem for pure quantum states. The entire system obeys reversible unitary dynamics, where the initial state of the heat bath is not the canonical distribution but is a single energy eigenstate that satisfies the eigenstat... [Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 100601] Published Tue Sep 05, 2017
Keywords:
General Physics: Statistical and Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Information, etc.
Print ISSN:
0031-9007
Electronic ISSN:
1079-7114
Topics:
Physics
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