The Dynamical Resource Theory of Informational Non-Equilibrium

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.16848v3
• Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 15:43:44 GMT
• Title: The Dynamical Resource Theory of Informational Non-Equilibrium
• Authors: Benjamin Stratton, Chung-Yun Hsieh, Paul Skrzypczyk
• Abstract summary: An important yet still open question is: how to characterise the ability of quantum dynamics to maintain informational non-equilibrium. A characterisation of the allowed operations is given for qubit channels and the n dimensional Weyl-covariant channels. An operational interpretation of a state discrimination game with Bell state measurements is given.
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• Abstract: Information is instrumental in our understanding of thermodynamics. Their interplay has been studied through completely degenerate Hamiltonians whereby the informational contributions to thermodynamic transformations can be isolated. In this setting, all states other then the maximally mixed state are considered to be in informational non-equilibrium. An important yet still open question is: how to characterise the ability of quantum dynamics to maintain informational non-equilibrium? Here, the dynamical resource theory of informational non-equilibrium preservability is introduced to begin providing an answer to this question. A characterisation of the allowed operations is given for qubit channels and the n dimensional Weyl-covariant channels - a physically relevant subset of the general channels. An operational interpretation of a state discrimination game with Bell state measurements is given. Finally, an explicit link between a channels classical capacity and its ability to maintain informational non-equilibrium is made.

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