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Non-equilibrium thermodynamics of quantum bipartite system

Kuan-Meng Zhang

Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310007, P. R. China

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Yi-Xin Chen

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5104-6031

Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, 310007, P. R. China

E-mail Address: yixinchenzimp@zju.edu.cn

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Abstract

In quantum information and quantum computation, a bipartite system provides a basic few-body framework for investigating significant properties of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics. A Hamiltonian model for a bipartite system is introduced to analyze the important role of interaction between bipartite subsystems in quantum non-equilibrium thermodynamics. We illustrate discrimination between such quantum thermodynamics and classical few-body non-equilibrium thermodynamics. By proposing a detailed balance condition of the bipartite system, we generally investigate the properties of the entropy and heat of our model, as well as the relation between them.

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