Tristan Benoist - "Energy statistics of quantum statistical systems in the adiabatic limit and Landauer's principle"
We present results obtained in collaboration with M. Fraas, V. Jaksic an C.-A. Pillet on the statistics of work and heat variation for driven quantum statistical system in the adiabatic limit. We show weak convergence of the respective distributions consistent with the classical thermodynamics of quasi static isothermal processes. We specialize these results to the study of the saturation of Landauer's bound on the minimal heat produced by the erasure of information.
