| Grant number: | 17/50304-7 |
| Support Opportunities: | Regular Research Grants |
| Start date: | March 01, 2018 |
| End date: | February 29, 2020 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics |
| Agreement: | Queen's University of Belfast |
| Mobility Program: | SPRINT - Projetos de pesquisa - Mobilidade |
| Principal Investigator: | Gabriel Teixeira Landi |
| Grantee: | Gabriel Teixeira Landi |
| Principal researcher abroad: | Mauro Paternostro |
| Institution abroad: | Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Física (IF). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
Abstract
Traditionally, thermodynamics has been applied almost exclusively to macroscopic (and thus classical) systems. However, recently it has been recently realized that it can be used to provide a new way of assessing and exploiting dynamics occurring at the microscopic scale, where thermal fluctuations start competing with quantum effects. Such interplay, which makes necessary a fundamental reformulation of classical concepts of thermodynamics, such as work and heat, is also responsible for the emergence of a whole new set of advantages of a genuine quantum nature. This emerging field is known as non-equilibrium quantum thermodynamics (NEQT). ln this project we address one of the essential concepts in NEQT, namely that of irreversibly. We propose to construct theoretically new measures of entropy production and apply them to paradigmatic (and experimentally relevant) problems in the fields of quantum physics. (AU)
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