| Reference : Quantum and Information Thermodynamics: A Unifying Framework Based on Repeated Intera... |
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| Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences : Physics | |||
| Physics and Materials Science | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/18387 | |||
| Quantum and Information Thermodynamics: A Unifying Framework Based on Repeated Interactions | |
| English | |
Strasberg, Philipp  [Technische Universität Berlin > Institut für Theoretische Physik] | |
| Schaller, Gernot [Technische Universität Berlin > Institut für Theoretische Physik] | |
| Brandes, Tobias [echnische Universität Berlin > Institut für Theoretische Physik] | |
| Esposito, Massimiliano [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Communication (FSTC) > Physics and Materials Science Research Unit >] | |
| 7-Apr-2017 | |
| Physical Review X | |
| American Physical Society | |
| 7 | |
| 021003 | |
| Yes | |
| International | |
| 2160-3308 | |
| College Park | |
| MD | |
| [en] Mesoscopics ; Quantum Physics ; Statistical Physics | |
| [en] We expand the standard thermodynamic framework of a system coupled to a thermal reservoir by
<br />considering a stream of independently prepared units repeatedly put into contact with the system. These <br />units can be in any nonequilibrium state and interact with the system with an arbitrary strength and <br />duration. We show that this stream constitutes an effective resource of nonequilibrium free energy, and we <br />identify the conditions under which it behaves as a heat, work, or information reservoir. We also show that <br />this setup provides a natural framework to analyze information erasure (“Landauer’s principle”) and <br />feedback-controlled systems (“Maxwell’s demon”). In the limit of a short system-unit interaction time, we <br />further demonstrate that this setup can be used to provide a thermodynamically sound interpretation to <br />many effective master equations. We discuss how nonautonomously driven systems, micromasers, lasing <br />without inversion and the electronic Maxwell demon can be thermodynamically analyzed within our <br />framework. While the present framework accounts for quantum features (e.g., squeezing, entanglement, <br />coherence), we also show that quantum resources do not offer any advantage compared to classical ones in <br />terms of the maximum extractable work. | |
| Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/18387 | |
| also: http://hdl.handle.net/10993/32440 | |
| 10.1103/PhysRevX.7.021003 | |
| FnR ; FNR1165601 > Massimiliano Esposito > NewThermo > A New Thermodynamic Theory For Small Fluctuating Systems: From Nanodevices To Cellular Biology > 01/01/2012 > 30/06/2017 > 2011 |
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