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Practically, we consider different optical excitations and decay scenarios of a TLS, focusing on the generated dynamics of a single phonon mode that couples to the TLS. Special emphasis is placed on the entropy of the different parts of the system, predominantly the phonons. While, without any decay, the entire system is always in a pure state, resulting in a vanishing entropy, the complex interplay between the single parts results in non-vanishing respective entanglement entropies and non-trivial dynamics of them. Taking a decay of the TLS into account leads to a non-vanishing entropy of the full system and additional aspects in its dynamics. We demonstrate that all aspects of the entropy\u2019s behavior can be traced back to the purity of the states and are illustrated by phonon Wigner functions in phase space.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/e22030286","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,3,2]],"date-time":"2020-03-02T04:16:16Z","timestamp":1583122576000},"page":"286","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["Entropy Dynamics of Phonon Quantum States Generated by Optical Excitation of a Two-Level System"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Thilo","family":"Hahn","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut f\u00fcr Festk\u00f6pertheorie, Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10 48149 M\u00fcnster, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4190-8803","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Daniel","family":"Wigger","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut f\u00fcr Festk\u00f6pertheorie, Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10 48149 M\u00fcnster, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7449-9287","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Tilmann","family":"Kuhn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institut f\u00fcr Festk\u00f6pertheorie, Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnster, Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 10 48149 M\u00fcnster, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,2,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Kondepudi, D., and Prigogine, I. 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