Verification of the quantum nonequilibrium work relation in the presence of decoherence
Verification of the quantum nonequilibrium work relation in the presence of decoherence
Although nonequilibrium work and fluctuation relations have been studied in detail within classical statistical physics, extending these results to open quantum systems has proven to be conceptually difficult. For systems that undergo decoherence but not dissipation, we argue that it is natural to define quantum work exactly as for isolated …