Elementary Thermal Operations

To what extent do thermodynamic resource theories capture physically relevant constraints? Inspired by quantum computation, we define a set of elementary thermodynamic gates that only act on 2 energy levels of a system at a time. We show that this theory is well reproduced by a Jaynes-Cummings inter...

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Main Authors: Matteo Lostaglio, Álvaro M. Alhambra, Christopher Perry
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Verein zur Förderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften 2018-02-01
Series:Quantum
Online Access:https://quantum-journal.org/q-2018-02-08-52/pdf/