Quantifying athermality and quantum induced deviations from classical fluctuation relations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.04926v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:36:23 GMT
• Title: Quantifying athermality and quantum induced deviations from classical fluctuation relations
• Abstract summary: We explore deviations from classical fluctuation relations resulting from the athermality of the initial thermal system and quantum coherence of the system's energy supply. We derive a Crooks-like equality for an energy supply prepared in a pure binomial state, leading to a non-trivial contribution from energy and coherence on the resultant irreversibility.
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• Abstract: In recent years a quantum information theoretic framework has emerged for incorporating non-classical phenomena into fluctuation relations. Here we elucidate this framework by exploring deviations from classical fluctuation relations resulting from the athermality of the initial thermal system and quantum coherence of the system's energy supply. In particular we develop Crooks-like equalities for an oscillator system which is prepared either in photon added or photon subtracted thermal states and derive a Jarzynski-like equality for average work extraction. We use these equalities to discuss the extent to which adding or subtracting a photon increases the informational content of a state thereby amplifying the suppression of free energy increasing process. We go on to derive a Crooks-like equality for an energy supply that is prepared in a pure binomial state, leading to a non-trivial contribution from energy and coherence on the resultant irreversibility. We show how the binomial state equality fits in relation to a previously derived coherent state equality and offers a richer feature-set.

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