Nonequilibrium potential and fluctuation theorems for quantum maps

Gonzalo Manzano, Jordan M. Horowitz, Juan M. R. Parrondo
2015 Physical Review E  
We derive a general fluctuation theorem for quantum maps. The theorem applies to a broad class of quantum dynamics, such as unitary evolution, decoherence, thermalization, and other types of evolution for quantum open systems. The theorem reproduces well-known fluctuation theorems in a single and simplified framework and extends the Hatano-Sasa theorem to quantum nonequilibrium processes. Moreover, it helps to elucidate the physical nature of the environment inducing a given dynamics in an open quantum system.
doi:10.1103/physreve.92.032129 pmid:26465448 fatcat:bjw7mfjy7bhizm537rs2cytns4