Particle creation, adiabaticity, and irreversibility in the TDHO

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.00820v1
• Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:01:47 GMT
• Title: Particle creation, adiabaticity, and irreversibility in the TDHO
• Authors: Salvador J. Robles-Perez, Salvador Castillo-Rivera,
• Abstract summary: We study the relationship between particle creation, adiabaticity and irreversibility in terms of three different representations.<n>We provide analytical results that are valid for any functional value of the frequency and along the whole evolution of the TDHO.
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• Abstract: We present an exact description of the dynamics and the thermodynamics of a time dependent harmonic oscillator (TDHO) that follows a unitary evolution. In that context, we study the relationship between particle creation, adiabaticity and irreversibility in terms of three different representations: the initial, the diagonal and the invariant representations of the TDHO. We provide analytical results that are valid for any functional value of the frequency and along the whole evolution of the TDHO, which allows us to monitor the behavior of the thermodynamical magnitudes in regions that are not fully considered in previous works, i.e. the transition and the non quasi-static regions. We supplement the analytical results with numerical calculations and graphs. They both show how the largest modes of the non invariant representations may undergo a process of reversible thermalization, where the concept of temperature naturally arises from the unitary evolution of the oscillator with no relation to any external concept of temperature. It would allow us to monitor an unexpected classical-to-quantum transition, which might entail a violation of the third principle of classical thermodynamics. We also provide adaptations of the customary definitions of the quantum heat and work that account for the particle creation of the TDHO. They thus depend on the representation and their evolution is different for the three representations analyzed in this paper, which might have important consequences in the development of quantum thermal machines. Finally, we study the relationship between the creation of particles and the diagonal entropy, which is derived from the von Neumann entropy in the diagonalization limit. The condition of no production of entropy under unitary evolution suggests the definition of a mode temperature that would correspond to the thermal temperature is some appropriate limit.

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