Comment on "Extending the Laws of Thermodynamics for Arbitrary Autonomous Quantum Systems"

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04170v1
• Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2023 07:30:45 GMT
• Title: Comment on "Extending the Laws of Thermodynamics for Arbitrary Autonomous Quantum Systems"
• Authors: Philipp Strasberg
• Abstract summary: Recently, Elouard and Lombard Latune claimed to extend the laws of thermodynamics to "arbitrary quantum systems" valid "at any scale" I show that their definitions are in conflict with textbook thermodynamics and over- or underestimate the real entropy production by orders of magnitude.
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• Abstract: Recently, Elouard and Lombard Latune [PRX Quantum 4, 020309 (2023)] claimed to extend the laws of thermodynamics to "arbitrary quantum systems" valid "at any scale" using "consistent" definitions allowing them to "recover known results" from the literature. I show that their definitions are in conflict with textbook thermodynamics and over- or underestimate the real entropy production by orders of magnitude. The cause of this problem is traced back to problematic definitions of entropy and temperature, the latter, for instance, violates the zeroth law. It is pointed out that another framework presented in PRX Quantum 2, 030202 (2021) does not suffer from these problems, while Elouard and Lombard Latune falsely claim that it only provides a positive entropy production for a smaller class of initial states. A simple way to unify both approaches is also presented.

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