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Thermal recall: Memory-assisted Markovian thermal processes

URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12840v2
Date: Sat, 7 Oct 2023 10:59:39 GMT
Title: Thermal recall: Memory-assisted Markovian thermal processes
Authors: Jakub Czartowski, A. de Oliveira Junior, Kamil Korzekwa
Abstract summary: We bridge the gap between two approaches to quantum thermodynamics based on Markovian thermal processes and thermal operations. Our approach is built on the notion of memory-assisted Markovian thermal processes. Within this setting, we propose a family of protocols that approximate all transitions between energy-incoherent states accessible via thermal operations.
Score: 1.1510009152620668
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Abstract: We develop a resource-theoretic framework that allows one to bridge the gap between two approaches to quantum thermodynamics based on Markovian thermal processes (which model memoryless dynamics) and thermal operations (which model arbitrarily non-Markovian dynamics). Our approach is built on the notion of memory-assisted Markovian thermal processes, where memoryless thermodynamic processes are promoted to non-Markovianity by explicitly modelling ancillary memory systems initialised in thermal equilibrium states. Within this setting, we propose a family of protocols composed of sequences of elementary two-level thermalisations that approximate all transitions between energy-incoherent states accessible via thermal operations. We prove that, as the size of the memory increases, these approximations become arbitrarily good for all transitions in the infinite temperature limit, and for a subset of transitions in the finite temperature regime. Furthermore, we present solid numerical evidence for the convergence of our protocol to any transition at finite temperatures. We also explain how our framework can be used to quantify the role played by memory effects in thermodynamic protocols such as work extraction. Finally, our results show that elementary control over two energy levels at a given time is sufficient to generate all energy-incoherent transitions accessible via thermal operations if one allows for ancillary thermal systems.

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