Second law of thermodynamics for random walk of quantum particle in a presence of detectors

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Abstract

We test H-theorem for a several models of particle random walk. We study interaction with a reservoir/detectors and its influence on entropy and found entropy growing in the time for some models and behaving non-monotonically for the others. We discuss the details of the system-reservoir interaction (such as presence of the interference in the system and number of interactions with detector parts) and their impact on the monotonicity of entropy.

Authors

  • Ivan Sadovskyy

    • Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA
    • Rutgers University
  • Gordey Lesovik

    • L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics RAS, 117940 Moscow, Russia