Bylicka Bogna, Tukiainen Mikko, Chruściński Dariusz, Piilo Jyrki, Maniscalco Sabrina
ICFO-Institut de Ciencies Fotoniques, Mediterranean Technology Park, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.
Institute of Physics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Grudziądzka 5/7, 87-100 Toruń, Poland.
Sci Rep. 2016 Jun 21;6:27989. doi: 10.1038/srep27989.
The natural framework to discuss thermodynamics at the quantum level is the theory of open quantum systems. Memory effects arising from strong system-environment correlations may lead to information back-flow, that is non-Markovian behaviour. The relation between non-Markovianity and quantum thermodynamics has been until now largely unexplored. Here we show by means of Landauer's principle that memory effects control the amount of work extraction by erasure in presence of realistic environments.
在量子层面讨论热力学的自然框架是开放量子系统理论。由强系统 - 环境相关性产生的记忆效应可能导致信息回流,即非马尔可夫行为。到目前为止,非马尔可夫性与量子热力学之间的关系在很大程度上尚未得到探索。在这里,我们通过兰道尔原理表明,在现实环境存在的情况下,记忆效应控制着通过擦除提取的功的量。