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Berry-Phase-Induced Chirality in Thermodynamics

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Authors: Zhaoyu Fei, Yu-Han Ma

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2026

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60838

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Geometric phases are foundational to isolated quantum systems, yet their thermodynamic role in open systems remains unrevealed Developing a dissipative adiabatic perturbation expansion, we discover a Berry-phase-induced chiral work difference that survives decoherence. This chirality evolves from an interferometric thermodynamic Aharonov-Bohm effect in the unitary regime to a fringe-free signal in the dissipative regime. We illustrate this framework in a two-level system and assess its experimental feasibility. Our findings clarify the role of quantum geometry in the geometric formulation of thermodynamics.

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[1] DOI https://doi.org/arXiv:2605.13685 [2] arXiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13685 [3] Publisher https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13685

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