Relations between dissipated work in non-equilibrium process and the family of Rényi divergences

In this paper, we establish a general relation which directly links the dissipated work done on a system driven arbitrarily far from equilibrium, a fundamental quantity in thermodynamics, and the family of Rényi divergences between two states along the forward and reversed dynamics, a fundamental co...

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Main Authors: Bo-Bo Wei, M B Plenio
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa579e