Experimentally probing Landauer's principle in the quantum many-body regime
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| author | Aimet, Stefan Tajik, Mohammadamin Tournaire, Gabrielle Schüttelkopf, Philipp Sabino, João Sotiriadis, Spyros Guarnieri, Giacomo Schmiedmayer, Jörg Eisert, Jens |
| author_facet | Aimet, Stefan Tajik, Mohammadamin Tournaire, Gabrielle Schüttelkopf, Philipp Sabino, João Sotiriadis, Spyros Guarnieri, Giacomo Schmiedmayer, Jörg Eisert, Jens |
| contents | Landauer's principle bridges information theory and thermodynamics by linking the entropy change of a system during a process to the average energy dissipated to its environment. Although typically discussed in the context of erasing a single bit of information, Landauer's principle can be generalised to characterise irreversibility in out-of-equilibrium processes, such as those involving complex quantum many-body systems. Specifically, the relationship between the entropy change of the system and the energy dissipated to its environment can be decomposed into changes in quantum mutual information and a difference in relative entropies of the environment. Here we experimentally probe Landauer's principle in the quantum many-body regime using a quantum field simulator of ultracold Bose gases. Employing a dynamical tomographic reconstruction scheme, we track the temporal evolution of the quantum field following a global mass quench from a massive to massless Klein-Gordon model and analyse the thermodynamic and information-theoretic contributions to a generalised entropy production for various system-environment partitions of the composite system. Our results verify the quantum field theoretical calculations, interpreted using a semi-classical quasiparticle picture. Our work demonstrates the ability of ultracold atom-based quantum field simulators to experimentally investigate quantum thermodynamics. |
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| spellingShingle | Experimentally probing Landauer's principle in the quantum many-body regime Aimet, Stefan Tajik, Mohammadamin Tournaire, Gabrielle Schüttelkopf, Philipp Sabino, João Sotiriadis, Spyros Guarnieri, Giacomo Schmiedmayer, Jörg Eisert, Jens Quantum Physics Quantum Gases Statistical Mechanics Landauer's principle bridges information theory and thermodynamics by linking the entropy change of a system during a process to the average energy dissipated to its environment. Although typically discussed in the context of erasing a single bit of information, Landauer's principle can be generalised to characterise irreversibility in out-of-equilibrium processes, such as those involving complex quantum many-body systems. Specifically, the relationship between the entropy change of the system and the energy dissipated to its environment can be decomposed into changes in quantum mutual information and a difference in relative entropies of the environment. Here we experimentally probe Landauer's principle in the quantum many-body regime using a quantum field simulator of ultracold Bose gases. Employing a dynamical tomographic reconstruction scheme, we track the temporal evolution of the quantum field following a global mass quench from a massive to massless Klein-Gordon model and analyse the thermodynamic and information-theoretic contributions to a generalised entropy production for various system-environment partitions of the composite system. Our results verify the quantum field theoretical calculations, interpreted using a semi-classical quasiparticle picture. Our work demonstrates the ability of ultracold atom-based quantum field simulators to experimentally investigate quantum thermodynamics. |
| title | Experimentally probing Landauer's principle in the quantum many-body regime |
| topic | Quantum Physics Quantum Gases Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21690 |