Time-cost-error trade-off relation in thermodynamics: The third law and beyond

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04576v2
• Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 14:16:15 GMT
• Title: Time-cost-error trade-off relation in thermodynamics: The third law and beyond
• Authors: Tan Van Vu, Keiji Saito,
• Abstract summary: We study the concept of separated states, which consist of fully unoccupied and occupied states. We uncover a three-way trade-off relation between time, cost, and error for a class of thermodynamic operations aimed at creating separated states. We extend these findings to the quantum regime, encompassing both Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics.
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• Abstract: Elucidating fundamental limitations inherent in physical systems is a central subject in physics. For important thermodynamic operations such as information erasure, cooling, and copying, resources like time and energetic cost must be expended to achieve the desired outcome within a predetermined error margin. In this study, we introduce the concept of separated states, which consist of fully unoccupied and occupied states. This concept generalizes many critical states involved in relevant thermodynamic operations. We then uncover a three-way trade-off relation between time, cost, and error for a general class of thermodynamic operations aimed at creating separated states, simply expressed as $\tau\mathcal{C}\varepsilon_{\tau}\ge 1-\eta$. This fundamental relation is applicable to diverse thermodynamic operations, including information erasure, cooling, and copying. It provides a profound quantification of the unattainability principle in the third law of thermodynamics in a general form. Building upon this relation, we explore the quantitative limitations governing cooling operations, the preparation of separated states, and a no-go theorem for exact classical copying. Furthermore, we extend these findings to the quantum regime, encompassing both Markovian and non-Markovian dynamics. Specifically, within Lindblad dynamics, we derive a similar three-way trade-off relation that quantifies the cost of achieving a pure state with a given error. The generalization to general quantum dynamics involving a system coupled to a finite bath implies that heat dissipation becomes infinite as the quantum system is exactly cooled down to the ground state or perfectly reset to a pure state, thereby resolving an open question regarding the thermodynamic cost of information erasure.

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