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Interference of Identical Particles and the Quantum Work Distribution

arXiv

Authors: Zongping Gong, Sebastian Deffner, H. T. Quan

Year

2014

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47553

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Preprint

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Quantum mechanical particles in a confining potential interfere with each other while undergoing thermodynamic processes far from thermal equilibrium. By evaluating the corresponding transition probabilities between many-particle eigenstates we obtain the quantum work distribution function, for identical Bosons and Fermions, which we compare with the case of distinguishable particles. We find that the quantum work distributions for Bosons and Fermions significantly differ at low temperatures, while, as expected, at high temperatures the work distributions converge to the classical expression. These findings are illustrated with two analytically solvable examples, namely the time-dependent infinite square well and the parametric harmonic oscillator.

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Quantum mechanical particles in a confining potential interfere with each other while undergoing thermodynamic processes far from thermal equilibrium.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:1409.3755 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3755 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3755

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