Assessing the Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in a Quenched Quantum Many-Body System via Single Projective Measurements (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Assessing the Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in a Quenched Quantum Many-Body System via Single Projective Measurements (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2014-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031029 (literal)
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  • Fusco L.[ 1 ] ; Pigeon S.[ 1 ]; Apollaro T. J. G.[ 1,2 ]; Xuereb A.[ 1,3 ]; Mazzola L.[ 1 ] ; Campisi M.[ 4,5 ]; Ferraro A.[ 1 ]; Paternostro M.[ 1 ]; De Chiara, G.[ 1 ] (2014)
    Assessing the Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in a Quenched Quantum Many-Body System via Single Projective Measurements
    in Physical review. X
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  • Fusco L.[ 1 ] ; Pigeon S.[ 1 ]; Apollaro T. J. G.[ 1,2 ]; Xuereb A.[ 1,3 ]; Mazzola L.[ 1 ] ; Campisi M.[ 4,5 ]; Ferraro A.[ 1 ]; Paternostro M.[ 1 ]; De Chiara, G.[ 1 ] (literal)
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  • [ 1 ] Queens Univ Belfast, Sch Math & Phys, Ctr Theoret Atom Mol & Opt Phys, Belfast BT7, Antrim, North Ireland [ 2 ] Univ Calabria, Dipartimento Fis, I-87036 Arcavacata Di Rende, CS, Italy [ 3 ] Univ Malta, Dept Phys, Msida 2080, Msd, Malta [ 4 ] CNR, Scuola Normale Super Pisa, NEST, I-56126 Pisa, Italy [ 5 ] CNR, Ist Nanosci, I-56126 Pisa, Italy (literal)
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  • Assessing the Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics in a Quenched Quantum Many-Body System via Single Projective Measurements (literal)
Abstract
  • We analyze the nature of the statistics of the work done on or by a quantum many-body system brought out of equilibrium. We show that, for the sudden quench and for an initial state that commutes with the initial Hamiltonian, it is possible to retrieve the whole nonequilibrium thermodynamics via single projective measurements of observables. We highlight, in a physically clear way, the qualitative implications for the statistics of work coming from considering processes described by operators that either commute or do not commute with the unperturbed Hamiltonian of a given system. We consider a quantum many-body system and derive an expression that allows us to give a physical interpretation, for a thermal initial state, to all of the cumulants of the work in the case of quenched operators commuting with the unperturbed Hamiltonian. In the commuting case, the observables that we need to measure have an intuitive physical meaning. Conversely, in the noncommuting case, we show that, although it is possible to operate fully within the single-measurement framework irrespectively of the size of the quench, some difficulties are faced in providing a clear-cut physical interpretation to the cumulants. This circumstance makes the study of the physics of the system nontrivial and highlights the nonintuitive phenomenology of the emergence of thermodynamics from the fully quantum microscopic description. We illustrate our ideas with the example of the Ising model in a transverse field showing the interesting behavior of the high-order statistical moments of the work distribution for a generic thermal state and linking them to the critical nature of the model itself. (literal)
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