Maxwell’s Demon Observing Creation of a Molecular Vibration
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C. Aris Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann
Quantum correlations and associated quantum information concepts (e. g. quantum discord, entanglement, quantum Maxwell’s demon) provide novel insights in various quantum-information processing tasks, quantum-thermodynamics processes, open-system dynamics, quantum molecular dynamics, and general many-body physics. We investigate a new effect of correlations accompanying collision of two quantum systems A and B, the latter being part of a larger (interacting) system B+D. In contrast to the usual case of a classical ‘environment’ or ‘demon’ (which can have only classical correlations with A+B during and after the collision), the quantum case exhibits striking new features. Here, in the frame of incoherent inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and vibrational dynamics of molecules, we report experimental evidence of a new phenomenon: quantum deficit of momentum transfer in an elementary neutron-molecule collision, in particular, in INS from single H2O molecules confined in channels with sub-nanometer diameter. The INS findings are in clear contrast to conventional theoretical expectations, but are naturally (albeit qualitative) interpreted in the frame of modern theory of quantumness of correlations, thus also proposing a new operational meaning of quantum discord and related measures.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Dedicated Editorial Communication: Jörg Fleischhauer 75
- Towards Correlated Sampling for the Fixed-Node Diffusion Quantum Monte Carlo Method
- Maxwell’s Demon Observing Creation of a Molecular Vibration
- Electronic and Magnetic Properties of the Graphene/Eu/Ni(111) Hybrid System
- The Conformation of Pentanoates in the Solid and in the Gas Phase
- The Role of Heme Chirality in the Circular Dichroism of Heme Proteins
- Convenient Small-Scale Preparation of p-Carborane by Pyrolysis of o-Carborane
- Computational Study of the Structure, the Flexibility, and the Electronic Circular Dichroism of Staurosporine – a Powerful Protein Kinase Inhibitor
- Quantum-Chemical Investigations on the Structural Variability of Anion–π Interactions
- Quantum-Chemical Ab Initio Calculations on Ala-(C5H5Al) and Galabenzene (C5H5Ga)
- A Short Review on the Magnetic Effects Occurring at Organic Ferromagnetic Interfaces Formed between Benzene-Like Molecules and Graphene with Ferromagnetic Surfaces
- Theoretical Analysis of the Unusual Vicinal Effects on Electronic Circular Dichroism Spectra of Cobalt(III) Complexes with ED3A-Type and Related Ligands
- Bonding Situation in Dimeric Group 15 Complexes [(NHC)2(E2)] (E = N–Bi)
