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Thermodynamic uncertainty relation as a fundamental aspect of quantum thermodynamics
The paper addresses physics of thermodynamic fluctuations in temperature and energy. These fluctuations are interrelated and, hence, can affect various micro- and macro systems. It is shown that the thermodynamic uncertainty relation must be taken into account in the physics of superconductivity, in quantum computations and other branches of science, where temperature and energy fluctuations play a critical role. One of the most important applications of quantum thermodynamics is quantum computers. It is assumed that in the near future the state structures will create a specific quantum cryptocurrency obtained using quantumcomputing. The quantum cryptocurrency exhibits two main features: the maximum reliability (quantum protection against hacking threats) and the possibility of state control (at the moment, only large scientific state centers have quantum computers). The paper reviews the studies aimed to theoretically prove the validity of the thermodynamic uncertainty relation. This relation connects fluctuations in temperature and energy of a system. Other similar relations are considered, including the relationshipbetween fluctuations in pressure and volume, in entropy and temperature, and others. The main purpose of the paper is to validate the thermodynamic analogue of the uncertainty relation that interconnects temperature and energy fluctuations
Theory of high-T_c superconductivity based on the fermion-condensation quantum phase transition
A theory of high temperature superconductivity based on the combination of
the fermion-condensation quantum phase transition and the conventional theory
of superconductivity is presented. This theory describes maximum values of the
superconducting gap which can be as big as , with
being the Fermi level. We show that the critical temperature
. If there exists the pseudogap above then
, and is the temperature at which the pseudogap
vanishes. A discontinuity in the specific heat at is calculated. The
transition from conventional superconductors to high- ones as a function
of the doping level is investigated. The single-particle excitations and their
lineshape are also considered.Comment: 6 pages, Revte
Color Effects Associated with the 1999 Microlensing Brightness Peaks in Gravitationally Lensed Quasar Q2237+0305
Photometry of the Q2237+0305gravitational lens in VRI spectral bands with the
1.5-m telescope of the high-altitude Maidanak observatory in 1995-2000 is
presented. Monitoring of Q2237+0305 in July-October 2000, made at nearly daily
basis, did not reveal rapid (night-to-night and intranight) variations of
brightness of the components during this time period. Rather slow changes of
magnitudes of the components were observed, such as 0.08 mag fading of B and C
components and 0.05 mag brightening of D in R band during July 23 - October 7,
2000. By good luck three nights in 1999 were almost at the time of the strong
brightness peak of image C, and approximately in the middle of the ascending
slope of the image A brightness peak. The C component was the most blue one in
the system in 1998 and 1999, having changed its (V-I) color from 0.56 mag to
0.12 mag since August 1997, while its brightness increased almost 1.2 mag
during this time period. The A component behaved similarly between August 1998
and August 2000, having become 0.47 mag brighter in R, and at the same time,
0.15 mag bluer. A correlation between the color variations and variations of
magnitudes of the components is demonstrated to be significant and reaches
0.75, with a regression line slope of 0.33. A color (V-I) vrs color (V-R) plot
shows the components settled in a cluster, stretched along a line with a slope
of 1.31. Both slopes are noticeably smaller than those expected if a standard
galactic interstellar reddening law were responsible for the differences
between the colors of images and their variations over time. We attribute the
brightness and color changes to microlensing of the quasar's structure, which
we conclude is more compact at shorter wavelengths, as predicted by most quasar
models featuring an energizing central source.Comment: 14 pages, 7 figures, LaTeX, submitted to A&
Ground state instability in systems of strongly interacting fermions
We analyze stability of a fermion system with model repulsive pair
interaction potential. The possibility for different types of restructuring of
the Fermi ground state (at sufficiently great coupling constant) is related to
the analytic properties of such potential. In particular, for the screened
Coulomb law it is shown that the restructuring cannot be of the Fermi
condensation type, known earlier for some exactly solvable models, and instead
it belongs to the class of topological transitions (TT). For this model, a
phase diagram has been built in the variables "screening parameter - coupling
constant" which displays two kinds of TT: a 5/2-kind similar to the known
Lifshitz transitions in metals, and a 2-kind characteristic for a uniform
strongly interacting system.Comment: The article has 11 pages, in Latex 2e (from Lyx), 3 eps figures or a
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