Thermodynamic uncertainty relation for arbitrary initial states

K Liu, Z Gong, M Ueda - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
The thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) describes a trade-off relation between
nonequilibrium currents and entropy production and serves as a fundamental principle of …

Experimental test of the differential fluctuation theorem and a generalized Jarzynski equality for arbitrary initial states

TM Hoang, R Pan, J Ahn, J Bang, HT Quan, T Li - Physical review letters, 2018 - APS
Nonequilibrium processes of small systems such as molecular machines are ubiquitous in
biology, chemistry, and physics but are often challenging to comprehend. In the past two …

Exploring quasiprobability approaches to quantum work in the presence of initial coherence: Advantages of the Margenau-Hill distribution

JH Pei, JF Chen, HT Quan - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
In quantum thermodynamics, the two-projective-measurement (TPM) scheme provides a
successful description of stochastic work only in the absence of initial quantum coherence …

Shortcuts to isothermality and nonequilibrium work relations

G Li, HT Quan, ZC Tu - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
In conventional thermodynamics, it is widely acknowledged that the realization of an
isothermal process for a system requires a quasistatic controlling protocol. Here we propose …

Heat distribution in quantum Brownian motion

ZZ Zhang, QS Tan, W Wu - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We investigate the heat statistics in a relaxation process of quantum Brownian motion
described by the Caldeira-Leggett model. By employing the normal mode transformation …

Nonequilibrium thermodynamics in biochemical systems and its application

D Zhang, Q Ouyang - Entropy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Living systems are open systems, where the laws of nonequilibrium thermodynamics play
the important role. Therefore, studying living systems from a nonequilibrium thermodynamic …

Experimental test of the Jarzynski equality in a single spin-1 system using high-fidelity single-shot readouts

W Liu, Z Niu, W Cheng, X Li, CK Duan, Z Yin, X Rong… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The Jarzynski equality (JE), which connects the equilibrium free energy with nonequilibrium
work statistics, plays a crucial role in quantum thermodynamics. Although practical quantum …

Hierarchical structure of fluctuation theorems for a driven system in contact with multiple heat reservoirs

JF Chen, HT Quan - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
For driven open systems in contact with multiple heat reservoirs, we find the marginal
distributions of work or heat do not satisfy any fluctuation theorem, but only the joint …

Quantum-classical correspondence principle for work distributions in a chaotic system

L Zhu, Z Gong, B Wu, HT Quan - Physical Review E, 2016 - APS
We numerically study the work distributions in a chaotic system and examine the
relationship between quantum work and classical work. Our numerical results suggest that …

Effects of quantum coherence on work statistics

BM Xu, J Zou, LS Guo, XM Kong - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
In the conventional two-point measurement scheme of quantum thermodynamics, quantum
coherence is destroyed by the first measurement. But as we know the coherence really plays …