Evidence of genuine quantum effects in nonequilibrium entropy production
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| author | Xue, Qing-Feng Zhuang, Xu-Cai Duan, De-Yang Zhang, Ying-Jie Yan, Wei-Bin Xia, Yun-Jie Franco, Rosario Lo Man, Zhong-Xiao |
| author_facet | Xue, Qing-Feng Zhuang, Xu-Cai Duan, De-Yang Zhang, Ying-Jie Yan, Wei-Bin Xia, Yun-Jie Franco, Rosario Lo Man, Zhong-Xiao |
| contents | Entropy production is a fundamental concept that plays a crucial role in the second law of thermodynamics and the measure of irreversibility. It imposes rigorous constraints on the kinds of transformations allowed in thermodynamic processes. Using an optical setup, here we experimentally demonstrate the division of entropy production of an open quantum system into a population-related component and a coherence-related component, validating previous theoretical predictions. The coherence-related component represents a genuine quantum contribution with no classical counterpart. By adjusting bath temperatures and initial coherences of the system, we first derive the total entropy production due to both populations and coherences, then remove all the coherences of the system to solely obtain the population-related contribution. The difference between these two results permits to isolate the coherence-related term. Based on this division, our experiment ultimately proves that irreversibility at the quantum level can be reduced through properly harnessing the two contributions to entropy production. |
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| spellingShingle | Evidence of genuine quantum effects in nonequilibrium entropy production Xue, Qing-Feng Zhuang, Xu-Cai Duan, De-Yang Zhang, Ying-Jie Yan, Wei-Bin Xia, Yun-Jie Franco, Rosario Lo Man, Zhong-Xiao Quantum Physics Entropy production is a fundamental concept that plays a crucial role in the second law of thermodynamics and the measure of irreversibility. It imposes rigorous constraints on the kinds of transformations allowed in thermodynamic processes. Using an optical setup, here we experimentally demonstrate the division of entropy production of an open quantum system into a population-related component and a coherence-related component, validating previous theoretical predictions. The coherence-related component represents a genuine quantum contribution with no classical counterpart. By adjusting bath temperatures and initial coherences of the system, we first derive the total entropy production due to both populations and coherences, then remove all the coherences of the system to solely obtain the population-related contribution. The difference between these two results permits to isolate the coherence-related term. Based on this division, our experiment ultimately proves that irreversibility at the quantum level can be reduced through properly harnessing the two contributions to entropy production. |
| title | Evidence of genuine quantum effects in nonequilibrium entropy production |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06858 |