Fundamental Work Cost of Quantum Processes

2017/09/30 by Philippe Faist, Renato Renner · 4 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Limit (mathematics) #Non-equilibrium thermodynamics #Process (computing) #Quantum #Quantum information processing #Quantum many-body systems #Second law of thermodynamics #Statistical Mechanics and Entropy #Work (physics) #quant-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevx.8.021011

published as Phys. Rev. X 8, 021011 (2018) · Journal version, 13+24 pages. The present results have been reported to a large extent in PhF's Ph.D. thesis (arXiv:1607.03104)

openalex created_date 2017/09/15 · openalex publication_date 2018/04/10 · arxiv created 2018/05/06 · arxiv updated 2018/05/08 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

A new theoretical analysis derives a precise fundamental lower limit to the work cost for processing information in any type of system, thereby cornering a new microscopic formulation of thermodynamics and shedding light on how far the second law can be applied.

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