Ram Brustein and Amos Yarom J. Stat. Mech. (2008) P07025 doi:10.1088/1742-5468/2008/07/P07025
Ram Brustein and Amos Yarom
Show affiliationsWe show that due to entanglement, quantum fluctuations may differ significantly from statistical fluctuations. We calculate quantum fluctuations of the particle number and of the energy in a sub-volume of a system of bosons in a pure state, and briefly discuss the possibility of measuring them. We find that energy fluctuations have a non-extensive nature.
05.40.-a Fluctuation phenomena, random processes, noise, and Brownian motion
Quantum gases, liquids and solids
Issue 07 (July 2008)
Received 17 April 2008, accepted for publication 7 July 2008
Published 29 July 2008
Ram Brustein and Amos Yarom J. Stat. Mech. (2008) P07025
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