Bound on the rate of entropy change in open quantum systems

Abstract

We study the temporal rate of variations of the von Neumann entropy in an open quantum system which interacts with a bath. We show that for almost all initial states of the bath and the system, the time-average of the rate of entropy change is bounded by a function which depends on various properties of the system and environment, and is mostly relatively small. This result holds true under fairly general conditions in almost any arbitrary quantum system.