Correlations in quantum thermodynamics: Heat, work, and entropy production

Autor:	Alipour, S., Benatti, F., Bakhshinezhad, F., Afsary, M., Marcantoni, S., Rezakhani, A. T.
Rok vydání:	2016
Předmět:	Quantum Physics
Zdroj:	Sci. Rep. 6, 35568 (2016)
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1038/srep35568
Popis:	We provide a characterization of energy in the form of exchanged heat and work between two interacting constituents of a closed, bipartite, correlated quantum system. By defining a binding energy we derive a consistent quantum formulation of the first law of thermodynamics, in which the role of correlations becomes evident, and this formulation reduces to the standard classical picture in relevant systems. We next discuss the emergence of the second law of thermodynamics under certain---but fairly general---conditions such as the Markovian assumption. We illustrate the role of correlations and interactions in thermodynamics through two examples. Comment: 16 pages
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1606.08869 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv