Nicole Fabbri
LENS Firenze
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Thursday Oct 22, 2020 / 14:00-15:00 CEST
Quantum thermodynamics with spin qubits in diamond
In open quantum systems, the description of the energy transfer processes under general beyond-unitality quantum channels is made difficult by the lack of operative quantum definitions of work and heat flux, and by the limited practical access to information on the reservoir. We experimentally investigate the energy transfer processes involving a Nitrogen-Vacancy center spin in diamond, where stochasticity and irreversibility are introduced by the combination of quantum measurements, a genuinely quantum mechanical feature, and a tunable dissipation channel. With this novel toolbox, we verified quantum fluctuation relations both for a spin qubit and a spin qutrit. In the case of a qubit, we formulate the quantum exchange relation encoding the missing reservoir information in the energy scale factor defined by the system out-of-equilibrium steady-state properties. In a second experiment, we consider a qutrit dynamics conducting to non-thermal stationary states: here, we show that the dissipative dynamics can be characterized by introducing a unique energy scale factor obeying a general energy exchange fluctuation relation only defined in terms of the initial and asymptotic (stationary) states, and that the quantum Jarzynski-Sagawa-Ueda relation is valid by modeling the dissipation as an intrinsic feedback process.
Hi Amikam,
thank you for your comment, and for pointing out your paper that is really very interesting. Concerning your question, we can prepare any initial superposition state (non-diagonal in the energy basis), both for the qubit and for the qutrit, and apply a stochastic-dissipative map (or other maps of interest) to that state. We can also prepare a two-qubit state with quantum correlation between the two qubits. Concerning your work, do you expect that the negativity of quasiprobabilities occur also in the case of single-qubit (or qutrit) coherence, subject to a dissipative dynamics? It would be very interesting to us to explore this aspect.
Hi Nicole,
Thank you for a very interesting talk. In the context of Gabriel’s question at the end of your talk, I want to draw your attention to a recent publication by Matteo Lostaglio and myself (PRX quantum 1, 010309 (2020)) about generalized heat exchange fluctuation theorem that avoids the first projective measurement. We further derive quantum-thermo signatures by bounding the heat exchange possible in the TPM scheme. It would be interesting to understand if you can prepare initial states that are not diagonal in the energy basis and avoid the first projective measurement.