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Quantum Chaotic Environments, The Butterfly Effect, And Decoherence
Zbyszek P. Karkuszewski, Christopher Jarzynski, Wojciech H. Zurek
We investigate the sensitivity of quantum systems that are chaotic in a classical limit, to small perturbations of their equations of motion. This sensitivity, originally studied i…
Feynman's ratchet and pawl: an exactly solvable model
C. Jarzynski, O. Mazonka
We introduce a simple, discrete model of Feynman's ratchet and pawl, operating between two heat reservoirs. We solve exactly for the steady-state directed motion and heat flows pro…
Microscopic analysis of Clausius-Duhem processes
C. Jarzynski
Given a thermodynamic process which carries a system from one equilibrium state to another, we construct a quantity whose average, over an ensemble of microscopic realizations of t…
Berry's conjecture and information theory
C. Jarzynski
It is shown that, by applying a principle of information theory, one obtains Berry's conjecture regarding the high-lying quantal energy eigenstates of classically chaotic systems.
Thermalization of a Brownian particle via coupling to low-dimensional chaos
Christopher Jarzynski
It is shown that a paradigm of classical statistical mechanics --- the thermalization of a Brownian particle --- has a low-dimensional, deterministic analogue: when a heavy, slow s…