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Fluctuation Theorem for Many-Body Pure Quantum States

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
卷 119, 期 10, 页码 -

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AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.100601

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  1. JSPS KAKENHI [JP16H02211, 15K20944, JP25103003]
  2. Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25103003, 15K20944, 17J06875, 16H02211] Funding Source: KAKEN

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We prove the second law of thermodynamics and the nonequilibrium fluctuation theorem for pure quantum states. The entire system obeys reversible unitary dynamics, where the initial state of the heat bath is not the canonical distribution but is a single energy eigenstate that satisfies the eigenstate-thermalization hypothesis. Our result is mathematically rigorous and based on the Lieb-Robinson bound, which gives the upper bound of the velocity of information propagation in many-body quantum systems. The entanglement entropy of a subsystem is shown connected to thermodynamic heat, highlighting the foundation of the information-thermodynamics link. We confirmed our theory by numerical simulation of hard-core bosons, and observed dynamical crossover from thermal fluctuations to bare quantum fluctuations. Our result reveals a universal scenario that the second law emerges from quantum mechanics, and can be experimentally tested by artificial isolated quantum systems such as ultracold atoms.

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