Quantum fluctuation theorems in the strong damping limit

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Published 21 April 2011 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation S. Deffner et al 2011 EPL 94 30001 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/94/30001

0295-5075/94/3/30001

Abstract

We consider a driven quantum particle in the strong friction regime described by the quantum Smoluchowski equation. We derive Crooks and Jarzynski type relations for the reduced quantum system by properly generalizing the entropy production to take into account the non-Gibbsian character of the equilibrium distribution. In the case of a nonequilibrium steady state, we obtain a quantum version of the Hatano-Sasa relation. We further propose an experiment with driven Josephson junctions that would allow to investigate nonequilibrium entropy fluctuations in overdamped quantum systems.

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10.1209/0295-5075/94/30001