Landauer Versus Nernst: What is the True Cost of Cooling a Quantum System?
Thermodynamics connects our knowledge of the world to our capability to manipulate and thus to control it. This crucial role of control is exemplified by the third law of thermodynamics, Nernst’s unattainability principle, which states that infinite resources are required to cool a system to absolut...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2023-03-01
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Series: | PRX Quantum |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.010332 |