Assessing the nonequilibrium thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system via single projective measurements

Physical Review X

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Fusco, L ^a   Pigeon, S ^a   Apollaro, T J G ^a,b   Xuereb, A ^a,c   Mazzola, L ^a   Campisi, M ^d   Ferraro, A ^a   Paternostro, M ^a   De Chiara, G ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

^d ISTITUTO NANOSCIENZE CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISING MODEL; QUANTUM THEORY; THERMODYNAMICS;

MICROSCOPIC DESCRIPTION; NON EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS; OUT OF EQUILIBRIUM; PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; PROJECTIVE MEASUREMENT; QUANTUM MANY-BODY SYSTEMS; STATISTICAL MOMENTS; QUANTUM PHYSICS; STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

HAMILTONIANS;

EID: 84907646893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.4.031029     Document Type: Article

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