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arxiv 2003.02150 v1 pith:SNWQ5SU7 submitted 2020-03-04 quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mech

Joint fluctuation theorems for sequential heat exchange

classification quant-ph cond-mat.stat-mech
keywords heatfluctuationjointancillacollisionsdistributionexchangeexchanged
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We study the statistics of heat exchange of a quantum system that collides sequentially with an arbitrary number of ancillas. This can describe, for instance, an accelerated particle going through a bubble chamber. Unlike other approaches in the literature, our focus is on the \emph{joint} probability distribution that heat $Q_1$ is exchanged with ancilla 1, heat $Q_2$ is exchanged with ancilla 2, and so on. This allows one to address questions concerning the correlations between the collisional events. The joint distribution is found to satisfy a Fluctuation theorem of the Jarzynski-W\'ojcik type. Rather surprisingly, this fluctuation theorem links the statistics of multiple collisions with that of independent single collisions, even though the heat exchanges are statistically correlated.

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