Reply to "Comment on `Extending the laws of thermodynamics for arbitrary autonomous quantum systems'"

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08243v1
• Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2023 08:36:42 GMT
• Title: Reply to "Comment on `Extending the laws of thermodynamics for arbitrary autonomous quantum systems'"
• Authors: Cyril Elouard and Camille Lombard Latune
• Abstract summary: In his Comment [1], Philip Strasberg (PS) argues that the framework we have presented does not recover known results of macroscopic textbook thermodynamics. Here, we show that such apparent contradictions disappear when the necessary assumptions the aforementioned known results pre-suppose are applied. The ability to relax those assumptions is precisely a motivation of our framework, which can explore the capacity of quantum systems to exchange work and heat even at scales not captured by textbook thermodynamics.
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• Abstract: In his Comment [1], Philip Strasberg (PS) argues from the analysis of different examples that the framework we have presented in [2] does not recover known results of macroscopic textbook thermodynamics. Here, we show that such apparent contradictions disappear when the necessary assumptions the aforementioned known results pre-suppose are applied. Those assumptions concern the control ability of the observer, the nature of the described degree of freedom, or the scale of the systems. The ability to relax those assumptions is precisely a motivation of our framework, which can explore the capacity of quantum systems to exchange work and heat even at scales not captured by textbook thermodynamics. We take the opportunity of this reply to further expand on the use of our framework and its connections with traditional thermodynamics.

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