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The Second Law of Steady State Thermodynamics for Nonequilibrium Quantum Dynamics

Published 2001-08-27, updated 2001-09-05Version 2

The second law of ordinary thermodynamics and the second law of steady state thermodynamics, as proposed by Oono and Paniconi, are investigated from the microscopic point of view for the open quantum system. Based on the H-theorem of Lindblad, we show that both second laws are consistent with the quantum dynamics generated by the completely positive map. In addition, microscopic expressions of entropy production and ``housekeeping heat'' are obtained for some classes of dynamical quantum systems.

Comments: 4 pages, revtex4; corrected typo

Categories: cond-mat.stat-mech

Keywords: steady state thermodynamics, second law, nonequilibrium quantum dynamics, open quantum system, microscopic expressions

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