{
  "id": "2007.04857",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2020-07-09T14:59:57.000Z",
  "updated": "2020-07-09T14:59:57.000Z",
  "title": "Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Quantum Friction",
  "authors": [
    "Daniel Reiche",
    "Francesco Intravaia",
    "Jen-Tsung Hsiang",
    "Kurt Busch",
    "Bei-Lok Hu"
  ],
  "comment": "10 pages, 1 figure",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Thermodynamic principles are often deceptively simple and yet surprisingly powerful. We show how a simple rule, such as the net flow of energy in and out of a moving atom under nonequilibrium steady state condition, can expose the shortcomings of many popular theories of quantum friction. Our thermodynamic approach provides a conceptual framework in guiding atom-optical experiments, thereby highlighting the importance of fluctuation-dissipation relations and long-time correlations between subsystems. Our results introduce consistency conditions for (numerical) models of nonequilibrium dynamics of open quantum systems.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2020-07-09T14:59:57.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum friction",
      "nonequilibrium thermodynamics",
      "nonequilibrium steady state condition",
      "open quantum systems",
      "thermodynamic approach"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 10,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}