A Survey on Some Modern Approaches to Quantum Thermodynamics<br/>

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A Survey on Some Modern Approaches to Quantum Thermodynamics

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 39923 (03)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Chemistry
Advisor(s): Shafiee, Afshin
Abstract:
The relationship between quantum theory and thermodynamics has gained so much attention in recent years. Thermodynamics is indeed a phenomenological science and its theoretical foundations are not clear as well. In the nineteenth century, Boltzmann tried to establish a connection between concepts of thermodynamics and classical mechanics (as a consistent theoretical domain). With development of quantum mechanics in twentieth century, the possibility of analyzing and formulating of the multi-particle systems based on quantum formalism increased. Quantum approach to thermodynamic phenomena has been studied in various ways. Here basic questions are, e.g. how to define Thermodynamic entities such as temperature, entropy, Gibbs energy and...? Is it possible to deduce thermodynamic laws such as the second law of thermodynamic and its constraints on thermodynamic equilibrium from the quantum formalism? In this thesis, focusing on the above two questions, the relationship between thermodynamics and quantum domain, particularly will be analyzed.
Keywords:
Thermodynamics Second Law ; Time Evolution ; Quantum Thermodynamics ; Density Matrix