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JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL MECHANICS-THEORY AND EXPERIMENT
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IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1742-5468/2009/02/P02025
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dissipative systems (theory); mesoscopic systems (theory); dynamical processes (theory); fluctuations (theory)
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- Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM)
- Volkswagen Foundation [I/80424]
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The characteristic function for the joint measurement of the changes of two or more commuting observables upon an external forcing of a quantum system is derived. In particular, the statistics of the internal energy, the exchanged heat and the work of a quantum system that weakly couples to its environment are determined in terms of the energy changes of the system and the environment due to the action of a classical, external force on the system. If the system and the environment initially are in a canonical equilibrium, the work performed on the system is shown to satisfy the Tasaki-Crooks theorem and the Jarzynski equality.
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