Statistics of work performed on a forced quantum oscillator

Abstract

Various aspects of the statistics of work performed by an external classical force on a quantum mechanical system are elucidated for a driven harmonic oscillator. In this special case two parameters are introduced that are sufficient to completely characterize the force protocol. Explicit results for the characteristic function of work and the respective probability distribution are provided and discussed for three different types of initial states of the oscillator: microcanonical, canonical and coherent states. Depending on the choice of the initial state the probability distributions of the performed work may grossly differ. This result in particular holds also true for identical force protocols. General fluctuation and work theorems holding for microcanonical and canonical initial states are confirmed.

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