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Quantum and Information Thermodynamics: A Unifying Framework Based on Repeated Interactions | |
English | |
Strasberg, Philipp ![]() | |
Schaller, Gernot [Technische Universität Berlin > Institut für Theoretische Physik] | |
Brandes, Tobias [echnische Universität Berlin > Institut für Theoretische Physik] | |
Esposito, Massimiliano ![]() | |
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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