Collective operations can extremely reduce work fluctuations

We consider work extraction from N copies of a quantum system. When the same work-extraction process is implemented on each copy, the relative size of fluctuations is expected to decay as $1/\sqrt{N}$ . Here, we consider protocols where the copies can be processed collectively, and show that in this...

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Main Authors: Martí Perarnau-Llobet, Raam Uzdin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2019-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab36a9