Quantum Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics

The known laws of physics are time-reversal invariant: forward time should be no different from reverse time. Yet we experience the past and future differently. We remember the past, but don’t remember the future. Where does this apparent asymmetry come from? How does the apparent unidirectionality of time emerge?

To answer this, I work on the foundations of quantum nonequilibrium thermodynamics.

Recent developments enforce physical law beyond the jurisdiction of the infamous second law of thermodynamics. Fluctuation theorems and quantum-information theoretic equalities subsume and transcend the inequality suggested by the second law.