• Title of article

    Quantum entropy production as a measure of irreversibility

  • Author/Authors

    Callens، نويسنده , , I and De Roeck، نويسنده , , W and Jacobs، نويسنده , , T and Maes، نويسنده , , C and Neto?n?، نويسنده , , K، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2004
  • Pages
    9
  • From page
    383
  • To page
    391
  • Abstract
    We consider conservative quantum evolutions possibly interrupted by macroscopic measurements. When started in a nonequilibrium state, the resulting path-space measure is not time-reversal invariant and the weight of time-reversal breaking equals the exponential of the entropy production. The mean entropy production can then be expressed via a relative entropy on the level of histories. This gives a partial extension of the result for classical systems, that the entropy production is given by the source term of time-reversal breaking in the path-space measure.
  • Keywords
    Quantum systems , Entropy production , Time-reversal
  • Journal title
    Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena
  • Serial Year
    2004
  • Journal title
    Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena
  • Record number

    1725327