Entropy production in a photovoltaic cell

We evaluate entropy production in a photovoltaic cell that is modeled by four electronic levels resonantly coupled to thermally populated field modes at different temperatures. We use a formalism recently proposed, the so-called multiple parallel worlds, to consistently address the nonlinearity of entropy in terms of density matrix. Our result shows that entropy production is the difference between two flows: a semiclassical flow that linearly depends on occupational probabilities, and another flow that depends nonlinearly on quantum coherence and has no semiclassical analog. We show that entropy production in the cells depends on environmentally induced decoherence time and energy detuning. We characterize regimes where reversal flow of information takes place from a cold to hot bath. Interestingly, we identify a lower bound on entropy production, which sets limitations on the statistics of dissipated heat in the cells.Comment: 7 pages, 2 figure

Exact correspondence between Renyi entropy flows and physical flows

We present a universal relation between the flow of a Renyi entropy and the full counting statistics of energy transfers. We prove the exact relation for a flow to a system in thermal equilibrium that is weakly coupled to an arbitrary time-dependent and non-equilibrium system. The exact correspondence, given by this relation, provides a simple protocol to quantify the flows of Shannon and Renyi entropies from the measurements of energy transfer statistics.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figure

More on Reverse Triangle Inequality in Inner Product Spaces

Refining some results of S. S. Dragomir, several new reverses of the generalized triangle inequality in inner product spaces are given. Among several results, we establish some reverses for the Schwarz inequality. In particular, it is proved that if $a$ is a unit vector in a real or complex inner product space $(H;)$, $r, s>0, p\in(0,s], D=\{x\in H,\|rx-sa\|\leq p\}, x_1, x_2\in D-\{0\}$ and $\alpha_{r,s}=\min\{\frac{r^2\|x_k\|^2-p^2+s^2}{2rs\|x_k\|}: 1\leq k\leq 2 \}$, then $$\frac{\|x_1\|\|x_2\|-Re}{(\|x_1\|+\|x_2\|)^2}\leq \alpha_{r,s}.$$Comment: 12 page