{
  "id": "quant-ph/0509110",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2005-09-15T14:03:44.000Z",
  "updated": "2005-09-15T14:03:44.000Z",
  "title": "Emergence of thermodynamic behavior within composite quantum systems",
  "authors": [
    "Guenter Mahler",
    "Jochen Gemmer",
    "Mathias Michel"
  ],
  "comment": "12 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in Physica E",
  "journal": "Physica E, 29, 53-65 (2005)",
  "doi": "10.1016/j.physe.2005.05.001",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "Entanglement within a given device provides a potential resource for quantum information processing. Entanglement between system and environment leads to decoherence (thus suppressing non-classical features within the system) but also opens up a route to robust and universal control. The latter is related to thermodynamic equilibrium, a generic behavior of bi-partite quantum systems. Fingerprints of this equilibrium behavior (including relaxation and stability) show up already far from the thermodynamic limit, where a complete solution of the underlying Schroedinger dynamics of the total system is still feasible.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2005-09-15T14:03:44.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "composite quantum systems",
      "thermodynamic behavior",
      "bi-partite quantum systems",
      "underlying schroedinger dynamics",
      "potential resource"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 12,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}