{
  "id": "1207.4777",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2012-07-19T19:34:38.000Z",
  "updated": "2012-07-19T19:34:38.000Z",
  "title": "Emergent thermodynamics in a quenched quantum many-body system",
  "authors": [
    "Ross Dorner",
    "John Goold",
    "Cecilia Cormick",
    "Mauro Paternostro",
    "Vlatko Vedral"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages, 1 figure",
  "journal": "Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 160601 (2012)",
  "doi": "10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.160601",
  "categories": [
    "cond-mat.stat-mech",
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We study the statistics of the work done, the fluctuation relations and the irreversible entropy production in a quantum many-body system subject to the sudden quench of a control parameter. By treating the quench as a thermodynamic transformation we show that the emergence of irreversibility in the nonequilibrium dynamics of closed many-body quantum systems can be accurately characterized. We demonstrate our ideas by considering a transverse quantum Ising model that is taken out of equilibrium by the instantaneous switching of the transverse field.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2012-07-19T19:34:38.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "subjects": [
      "05.70.Ln",
      "05.30.Rt",
      "05.40.-a",
      "64.60.Ht"
    ],
    "keywords": [
      "quenched quantum many-body system",
      "emergent thermodynamics",
      "quantum many-body system subject",
      "closed many-body quantum systems",
      "transverse quantum ising model"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "publisher": "APS",
      "journal": "Physical Review Letters",
      "year": 2012,
      "month": "Oct",
      "volume": 109,
      "number": 16,
      "pages": 160601
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2012PhRvL.109p0601D"
    }
  }
}