Experimental Determination of Irreversible Entropy Production in out-of-Equilibrium Mesoscopic Quantum Systems

Funding

We are grateful to M. Aspelmeyer, T. Esslinger, J. Goold, I. Lesanovsky, E. Lutz, and J. Schmiedmayer for useful comments and fruitful discussions during the development of this project. We thank S. Groblacher for support with microfabrication, and F. Brennecke and R. Motti for support in taking and evaluating the cavity-BEC data. This work was supported by the European Union through the projects TherMiQ, TEQ, SIQS, iQOEMS, and ITN cQOM, the European Research Council through the Advanced Grant project SQMBS, the Brazilian CNPq through Grant No. 302900/2017-9 and the "Ciencia sem Fronteiras" program via the "Pesquisador Visitante Especial" initiative (Grant No. 401265/2012-9), the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) under Grant No. 2014/01218-2; the Brazilian National Institute of Science and Technology of Quantum Information (INCT/IQ), the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF, Project No. ICT12-049); and the Austrian Science Fund FWF (JHO: W1210, CoQuS; NK: AY0095221, START).