2 papers
quant-ph2026
The contact temperature of arbitrary quantum states
Alain Joye, Marco Merkli
An intuitive scheme to assign a temperature to an arbitrary state of a quantum system is to investigate the heat flow resulting from the coupling to a thermometer. We introduce a s…
math-ph2024
Two-Time Measurement of Entropy Transfer in Markovian Quantum Dynamics
A. Joye, C. -A. Pillet
We consider a protocol for the two-time measurement of entropic observables in quantum open systems driven out of thermal equilibrium by coupling to several heat baths. We concentr…