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arxiv: 1510.01905 · v2 · pith:J4TQ4I5Knew · submitted 2015-10-07 · 🪐 quant-ph · cond-mat.stat-mech

Thermodynamics of trajectories and local fluctuation theorems for harmonic quantum networks

classification 🪐 quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mech
keywords harmonicfluctuationlocalnetworkquantumdynamicsexchangemethod
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We present a general method to undertake a thorough analysis of the thermodynamics of the quantum jump trajectories followed by an arbitrary quantum harmonic network undergoing linear and bilinear dynamics. The approach is based on the phase-space representation of the state of a harmonic network. The large deviation function associated with this system encodes the full counting statistics of exchange and also allows one to deduce for fluctuation theorems obeyed by the dynamics. We illustrate the method showing the validity of a local fluctuation theorem about the exchange of excitations between a restricted part of the environment (i.e., a local bath) and a harmonic network coupled with different schemes.

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