Emergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system

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dc.contributor.authorDorner, Ross
dc.contributor.authorGoold, John
dc.contributor.authorCormick, Cecilia
dc.contributor.authorPaternostro, Mauro
dc.contributor.authorVedral, Vlatko
dc.contributor.funderLeverhulme Trust
dc.contributor.funderMinistry of Education - Singapore
dc.contributor.funderNational Research Foundation
dc.contributor.funderJohn Templeton Foundation
dc.contributor.funderAlexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
dc.contributor.funderIrish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology
dc.contributor.funderEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-04T09:02:30Z
dc.date.available2017-09-04T09:02:30Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractWe 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.en
dc.description.sponsorshipEngineering and Physical Sciences Research Council ("New Directions for EPSRC Research Leaders'' initiative (EP/G004579/1); Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (Marie Curie International Mobility fellowship)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.articleid160601
dc.identifier.citationDorner, R., Goold, J., Cormick, C., Paternostro, M. and Vedral, V. (2012) 'Emergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system', Physical Review Letters, 109(16), 160601 (5pp). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.160601en
dc.identifier.doi10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.160601
dc.identifier.issn0031-9007
dc.identifier.issn1079-7114
dc.identifier.issued16
dc.identifier.journaltitlePhysical Review Lettersen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/4622
dc.identifier.volume109
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAmerican Physical Societyen
dc.relation.urihttps://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.160601
dc.rights© 2012, American Physical Societyen
dc.subjectFree energy differencesen
dc.subjectFluctuation theoremen
dc.subjectFoundationsen
dc.subjectDynamicsen
dc.subjectEntropyen
dc.titleEmergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body systemen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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