2014/08/20 by Giuseppe Argentieri, G. Argentieri, Fabio Benatti +5
Computer Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Dynamics (music) #Physics #Quantum Information and Cryptography #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Second law of thermodynamics #Statistical physics #Thermodynamics #cond-mat.other #quant-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1209/0295-5075/107/50007
published as EPL, 107 (2014) 50007 · 6 pages, LaTex
arxiv created 2014/08/20 · openalex publication_date 2014/09/01 · arxiv updated 2014/09/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We consider a recently proposed model of driven open quantum micro-circuit ( Pellegrini F. , Phys. Rev. Lett. , 107 (2011) 060401) amenable to experimental investigations. We show that such an open quantum system provides a concrete physical instance where we can prove that modeling its time evolution with a dynamics lacking complete positivity conflicts with the second law of thermodynamics.