Thermodynamical Versus Optical Complementarity

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dc.creatorHiesmayr, Beatrix C.
dc.creatorVedral, Vlatko
dc.date2005-01-04
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T06:11:54Z
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dc.descriptionWe establish correspondence between macroscopic thermodynamical quantities and complementarity in wave interference. The well known visibility and predictability in a double slit--like experiment are shown to be connected to magnetic susceptibility and magnetization of a general interacting spin chain. This gives us the ability to analyze the tradeoff between thermodynamical quantities in the same information--theoretic way that is used in analyzing the wave--particle duality. We thus obtain new physical insights into usually complicated thermodynamical models, such as viewing a phase transition simply as a change from an effective single slit diffraction to a double slit interference.
dc.description4 pages, 2 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0501015
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0501015
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/92628
dc.subjectQuantum Physics
dc.titleThermodynamical Versus Optical Complementarity
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