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View SchemaThermodynamical Versus Optical Complementarity
| Authors | Beatrix C. Hiesmayr, Vlatko Vedral |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0501015 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0501015 |
Abstract
We 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.
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