{ "id": "2107.04442", "version": "v1", "published": "2021-07-09T13:46:10.000Z", "updated": "2021-07-09T13:46:10.000Z", "title": "Can the Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory be Quantized ?", "authors": [ "Denis Bernard" ], "comment": "28 pages plus references, 5 figures. Prepared as a contribution to a special volume of Journal of Physics A on \"Hydrodynamics of Low-Dimensional Quantum Systems\"", "categories": [ "cond-mat.stat-mech", "math-ph", "math.MP", "quant-ph" ], "abstract": "The Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory is an effective framework to describe transports and their fluctuations in classical out-of-equilibrium diffusive systems. Whether the Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory may be extended to the quantum realm and which form this extension may take is yet terra incognita but is a timely question. In this short introductory review, I discuss possible questions that a quantum version of the Macroscopic Fluctuation Theory could address and how analysing Quantum Simple Exclusion Processes yields pieces of answers to these questions.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2021-07-09T13:46:10.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "keywords": [ "macroscopic fluctuation theory", "simple exclusion processes yields pieces", "quantum simple exclusion processes yields", "analysing quantum simple exclusion processes" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 28, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }