Control of fluctuations and heavy tails for heat variation in the two-time measurement framework

Tristan Benoist (1) , Annalisa Panati (2, 3) , Renaud Raquépas (4, 5)

1 IMT - Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse UMR5219
2 CPT - Centre de Physique Théorique - UMR 7332
3 CPT - E8 Dynamique quantique et analyse spectrale
4 Department of Mathematics and Statistics [Montréal]
5 IF - Institut Fourier

We study heat fluctuations in the two-time measurement framework. For bounded perturbations, we give sufficient ultraviolet regularity conditions on the perturbation for the moments of the heat variation to be uniformly bounded in time, and for the Fourier transform of the heat variation distribution to be analytic and uniformly bounded in time in a complex neighborhood of 0. On a set of canonical examples, with bounded and unbounded perturbations, we show that our ultraviolet conditions are essentially necessary. If the form factor of the perturbation does not meet our assumptions, the heat variation distribution exhibits heavy tails. The tails can be as heavy as preventing the existence of a fourth moment of the heat variation.

Domaines: Physique mathématique [math-ph]

Tristan Benoist, Annalisa Panati, Renaud Raquépas. Control of fluctuations and heavy tails for heat variation in the two-time measurement framework. Annales Henri Poincaré, 2019, 20 (2), pp.631-674. ⟨10.1007/s00023-018-0743-x⟩. ⟨hal-01703374v2⟩