Sharpening the second law of thermodynamics with the quantum Bayes theorem
We prove a generalization of the classic Groenewold-Lindblad entropy inequality, combining decoherence and the quantum Bayes theorem into a simple unified picture where decoherence increases entropy while observation decreases it. This provides a rigorous quantum-mechanical version of the second law...
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American Physical Society
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90265 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7670-7190 |