Quantum work statistics of charged Dirac particles in time-dependent fields
| dc.contributor.author | Deffner, Sebastian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Saxena, Avadh | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-13T18:07:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-13T18:07:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015-09-28 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The quantum Jarzynski equality is an important theorem of modern quantum thermodynamics. We show that the Jarzynski equality readily generalizes to relativistic quantum mechanics described by the Dirac equation. After establishing the conceptual framework we solve a pedagogical, yet experimentally relevant, system analytically. As a main result we obtain the exact quantum work distributions for charged particles traveling through a time-dependent vector potential evolving under Schrödinger as well as under Dirac dynamics, and for which the Jarzynski equality is verified. Special emphasis is put on the conceptual and technical subtleties arising from relativistic quantum mechanics. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | S.D. acknowledges financial support by the U.S. Department of Energy through a LANL Director’s Funded Fellowship. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://journals.aps.org/pre/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032137 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 7 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2vmnw-l2hr | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sebastian Deffner and Avadh Saxena, Quantum work statistics of charged Dirac particles in time-dependent fields, Phys. Rev. E 92, 032137 (2015), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032137 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.92.032137 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19421 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | American Physical Society (APS) | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) | |
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| dc.title | Quantum work statistics of charged Dirac particles in time-dependent fields | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |