Non-Equilibrium Steady States of Finite¶Quantum Systems Coupled to Thermal Reservoirs
Non-Equilibrium Steady States of Finite¶Quantum Systems Coupled to Thermal Reservoirs
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耦合到热库的有限量子系统的非平衡稳态
DOI:
10.1007/s002200200602
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
C. Pillet
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作者:
V. Jaksic;C. Pillet
We study the non-equilibrium statistical mechanics of a 2-level quantum system, ?, coupled to two independent free Fermi reservoirs ?1, ?2, which are in thermal equilibrium at inverse temperatures β1≠β2. We prove that, at small coupling, the combined quantum system ?+?1+?2has a unique non-equilibrium steady state (NESS) and that the approach to this NESS is exponentially fast. We show that the entropy production of the coupled system is strictly positive and relate this entropy production to the heat fluxes through the system.A part of our argument is general and deals with spectral theory of NESS. In the abstract setting of algebraic quantum statistical mechanics we introduce the new concept of theC-Liouvillean,L, and relate the NESS to zero resonance eigenfunctions ofL*. In the specific model ?+?1+?2we study the resonances ofL*using the complex deformation technique developed previously by the authors in [JP1].Dedicated to Jean Michel Combes on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday