Abstract
Measuring the thermodynamic properties of open quantum systems poses a major challenge. A calorimetric detection has been proposed as a feasible experimental scheme to measure work and fluctuation relations in open quantum systems. However, the detection requires a finite size for the environment, which influences the system dynamics. This process cannot be modeled with the standard stochastic approaches. We develop a quantum jump model suitable for systems coupled to a finite-size environment. We use the method to study the common fluctuation relations and prove that they are satisfied.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 062106 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Physical Review E |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 3 Jun 2016 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Funding
We wish to thank Jukka Pekola for suggesting this problem to us, and for useful discussions. We wish also to thank C. Jarzynski, P. Muratore-Ginanneschi, and K. Schwieger for useful discussions and comments. This work was supported in part by the Vaisala Foundation and the Academy of Finland through its Centres of Excellence Programme (2015-2017) under project numbers 251748 and 284621. The numerical calculations were performed using computer resources of the Aalto University School of Science "Science-IT" project.
Keywords
- FREE-ENERGY DIFFERENCES
- FLUCTUATION RELATIONS
- ENTROPY PRODUCTION
- MASTER EQUATION
- THERMODYNAMICS
- SIMULATION
- EQUALITY
- OPTICS
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