Maxwell’s Demon Meets Nonequilibrium Quantum Thermodynamics

Nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics in Coulomb crystals

Nonequilibrium Quantum Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics *

The purpose of this work is to discuss recent progress in deriving the fundamental laws of thermodynamics (0, 1 and 2-law) from nonequilibrium quantum statistical mechanics. Basic thermodynamic notions are clarified and different reversible and irreversible thermodynamic processes are studied from the point of view of quantum statistical mechanics. Special emphasis is put on new adiabatic theor...

Quantum thermodynamics: a nonequilibrium Green's function approach.

We establish the foundations of a nonequilibrium theory of quantum thermodynamics for noninteracting open quantum systems strongly coupled to their reservoirs within the framework of the nonequilibrium Green's functions. The energy of the system and its coupling to the reservoirs are controlled by a slow external time-dependent force treated to first order beyond the quasistatic limit. We deriv...

Topics in Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics: Computing Crystalline Free Energies and Engineering Maxwell’s Demon

Title of dissertation: TOPICS IN EQUILIBRIUM AND NONEQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS: COMPUTING CRYSTALLINE FREE ENERGIES AND ENGINEERING MAXWELL’S DEMON Zhiyue Lu, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation directed by: Professor Christopher Jarzynski Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry; Institute for Physical Science and Technology This dissertation covers two separate topics in statistical physi...

A review of quantum thermodynamics

In this article, we present a brief and elementary review of quantum thermodynamics and its achievements and challenges. This review includes an introduction to some fundamental concepts such as internal energy, heat, work, entropy, entropy production, thermal equilibrium, second law of quantum thermodynamics, relation between thermodynamics and information theory, as well as a discussion of ho...