Journal article
Emergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system.
- Abstract:
- We study the statistics of the work done, fluctuation relations, and irreversible entropy production in a quantum many-body system subject to the sudden quench of a control parameter. By treating the quench as a thermodynamic transformation we show that the emergence of irreversibility in the nonequilibrium dynamics of closed many-body quantum systems can be accurately characterized. We demonstrate our ideas by considering a transverse quantum Ising model that is taken out of equilibrium by an instantaneous change of the transverse field.
- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Physical Review Letters
- Volume:
- 109
- Issue:
- 16
- Pages:
- 160601
- Publication date:
- 2012-10-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1079-7114
- ISSN:
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0031-9007
- Source identifiers:
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356712
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:356712
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- pubs:356712
- Deposit date:
- 2013-11-16
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- 2012
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