%0 Journal Article
%A Manzano Paule, Gonzalo
%A Horowitz, Jordan
%A Rodríguez Parrondo, Juan Manuel
%T Nonequilibrium potential and fluctuation theorems for quantum maps
%D 2015
%@ 1539-3755
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/24232
%X We derive a general fluctuation theorem for quantum maps. The theorem applies to a broad class of quantum dynamics, such as unitary evolution, decoherence, thermalization, and other types of evolution for quantum open systems. The theorem reproduces well-known fluctuation theorems in a single and simplified framework and extends the Hatano-Sasa theorem to quantum nonequilibrium processes. Moreover, it helps to elucidate the physical nature of the environment that induces a given dynamics in an open quantum system.
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