Generalized laws of thermodynamics in the presence of correlations

In presence of inter-system correlations, violations of the laws of thermodynamics become possible. Here, the authors develop a formalism redefining heat, work and thermodynamic laws in terms of quantum conditional entropy, which consistently generalize thermodynamics in correlated scenarios.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Manabendra N. Bera, Arnau Riera, Maciej Lewenstein, Andreas Winter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017-12-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02370-x