Differential formalism and the thermodynamic description of multimode Gaussian equilibrium states

Julio A. López-Saldívar

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2023, vol. 617, issue C

Abstract: A differential formalism for the covariance matrix of thermal equilibrium states is obtained when the Hamiltonian of the system is defined by quadratic forms. First, the cases of one- and two-modal Gaussian states are taken into account and the differential equations for the corresponding covariance matrices of these states in terms of the temperature are obtained. Later, the generalization of the differential equation to any number of modes is demonstrated by using the Wigner quasi-probability distribution. Some examples related to standard quadratic Hamiltonians are given and several thermodynamic properties as the free and internal energies, the entropy, and the heat capacity of different systems are listed.

Keywords: Thermal equilibrium states; Gaussian states; Quadratic Hamiltonians; Open systems; Wigner function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2023.128676

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