A resource theory of activity for quantum thermodynamics in the absence of heat baths

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08926v1
• Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:01:33 GMT
• Title: A resource theory of activity for quantum thermodynamics in the absence of heat baths
• Authors: Swati and Uttam Singh and Giulio Chiribella
• Abstract summary: Active states are an important resource for quantum thermodynamics in the absence of heat baths. We establish a resource theory that captures the operational scenario where an experimenter manipulates a quantum system by means of energy-preserving operations and resets to non-active states.
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• Abstract: Active states, from which work can be extracted by time-dependent perturbations, are an important resource for quantum thermodynamics in the absence of heat baths. Here we characterize this resource, establishing a resource theory that captures the operational scenario where an experimenter manipulates a quantum system by means of energy-preserving operations and resets to non-active states. Our resource theory comes with simple conditions for state convertibility and an experimentally accessible resource quantifier that determines the maximum advantage of active states in the task of producing approximations of the maximally coherent state by means of energy-preserving quantum operations.

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