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posted on 2018-01-19, 14:57 authored by Samu Suomela, A. Kutvonen, Tapio Ala-NissilaTapio Ala-Nissila© 2016 American Physical Society. Measuring the thermodynamic properties of open quantum systems poses a major challenge. A calorimetric detection has been proposed as a feasible experimental scheme to measure work and fluctuation relations in open quantum systems. However, the detection requires a finite size for the environment, which influences the system dynamics. This process cannot be modeled with the standard stochastic approaches. We develop a quantum jump model suitable for systems coupled to a finite-size environment. We use the method to study the common fluctuation relations and prove that they are satisfied.
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This work was supported in part by the Vaisala foundation and the Academy of Finland through its Centres of Excellence Programme (2015-2017) under project number 284621.
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