Fully quantum stochastic entropy production

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12489v2
• Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2024 06:33:02 GMT
• Title: Fully quantum stochastic entropy production
• Authors: Ge Bai, Francesco Buscemi, Valerio Scarani,
• Abstract summary: Building on the approach of thermodynamics, we define entropy production for arbitrary quantum processes. We show that the classical expression for average entropy production involves only comparisons of statistics at the input or output. We construct an entropy production operator, that generalizes the value of entropy to the non-commutative case.
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• Abstract: Building on the approach of stochastic thermodynamics, we define entropy production for arbitrary quantum processes, using Bayesian tools to capture the inherent subjective element. First, we show that the classical expression for average entropy production involves only comparisons of statistics at the input or output, and thus can be formally generalized by replacing probability distributions by quantum states. To go beyond the mere average, we construct an entropy production operator, that generalizes the value of entropy to the non-commutative case. The operator is Hermitian; its average is non-negative, so that the Second Law takes its usual form $\langle\Sigma\rangle\geq 0$; it formally satisfies the Jarzynski equality and the Crooks fluctuation theorem; and recovers the classical expression for classical processes. We also present features whose fully quantum version is not a straightforward translation of the classical one: these may point to the core difference between classical and quantum thermodynamics.

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