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Violations of the second law of thermodynamics by a non completely positive dynamics
G. Argentieri, F. Benatti, R. Floreanini, M. Pezzutto
Published 2014-08-20Version 1
We consider a recently proposed model of driven open quantum microcircuit [F. Pellegrini et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 060401 (2011)] amenable to experimental investigations. We show that such an open quantum system provides a concrete physical instance where to prove that modeling its time-evolution with a dynamics lacking complete positivity conflicts with the second law of thermodynamics.
Comments: 6 pages, LaTex
Categories: quant-ph, cond-mat.other
Keywords: second law, positive dynamics, thermodynamics, violations, dynamics lacking complete positivity conflicts
Tags: journal article
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