Heat due to system-reservoir correlations in thermal equilibrium
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2014
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075421/1-6
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Physical Review B, Volume 90, Issue 7
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The heat flow between a quantum system and its reservoir is analyzed when initially both are in a separable thermal state and asymptotically approach a correlated equilibrium. General findings are illustrated for specific systems and various classes of non-Markovian reservoirs relevant for solid state realizations. System-bath correlations are shown to be substantial at low temperatures even in the weak coupling regime. As a consequence, predictions of work and heat for actual experiments obtained within conventional perturbative approaches may often be questionable. Correlations induce characteristic imprints in heat capacities which opens a proposal to measure them in solid state devices.Description
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quantum systems, heat flows
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Ankerhold, Joachim & Pekola, Jukka. 2014. Heat due to system-reservoir correlations in thermal equilibrium. Physical Review B. Volume 90, Issue 7. P. 075421/1-6. ISSN 1098-0121 (printed). DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.90.075421.