Thermodynamics and Synchronization in Open Quantum Systems

✍ Scribed by Gonzalo Manzano Paule

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 424
• Series: Springer Theses
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores some of the connections between dissipative and quantum effects from a theoretical point of view. It focuses on three main topics: the relation between synchronization and quantum correlations, the thermodynamical properties of fluctuations, and the performance of quantum thermal machines. Dissipation effects have a profound impact on the behavior and properties of quantum systems, and the unavoidable interaction with the surrounding environment, with which systems continuously exchange information, energy, angular momentum and matter, is ultimately responsible for decoherence phenomena and the emergence of classical behavior. However, there is a wide intermediate regime in which the interplay between dissipative and quantum effects gives rise to a plethora of rich and striking phenomena that has just started to be understood. In addition, the recent breakthrough techniques in controlling and manipulating quantum systems in the laboratory have made this phenomenology accessible in experiments and potentially applicable.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
Basic Concepts (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 3-58
Open Quantum Systems Dynamics (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 59-114
Quantum Thermodynamics (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 115-176
Front Matter ....Pages 177-177
Transient Synchronization and Quantum Correlations (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 179-200
Noiseless Subsystems and Synchronization (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 201-231
Dissipative Complex Quantum Networks (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 233-254
Front Matter ....Pages 255-255
Fluctuation Theorems for Quantum Maps (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 257-284
Entropy Production Fluctuations in Quantum Processes (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 285-314
Simple Applications of the Entropy Production FT’s (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 315-342
Front Matter ....Pages 343-343
Thermodynamic Power of the Squeezed Thermal Reservoir (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 345-365
Performance of Autonomous Quantum Thermal Machines (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 367-397
Front Matter ....Pages 399-399
Summary and Outlook (Gonzalo Manzano Paule)....Pages 401-411

✦ Subjects

Physics; Thermodynamics; Quantum Physics