Universal work extraction in quantum thermodynamics

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.12373v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 18:00:00 GMT
• Title: Universal work extraction in quantum thermodynamics
• Authors: Kaito Watanabe, Ryuji Takagi,
• Abstract summary: evaluating the maximum amount of work extractable from a nanoscale quantum system is one of the central problems in quantum thermodynamics.<n>Previous works identified the free energy of the input state as the optimal rate of extractable work under the crucial assumption: experimenters know the description of the given quantum state.<n>Here, we show that this optimal extractable work can be achieved without knowing the input states at all, removing the fundamental operational restrictions.
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• Abstract: Evaluating the maximum amount of work extractable from a nanoscale quantum system is one of the central problems in quantum thermodynamics. Previous works identified the free energy of the input state as the optimal rate of extractable work under the crucial assumption: experimenters know the description of the given quantum state, which restricts the applicability to significantly limited settings. Here, we show that this optimal extractable work can be achieved without knowing the input states at all, removing the aforementioned fundamental operational restrictions. We achieve this by presenting a universal work extraction protocol, whose description does not depend on input states but nevertheless extracts work quantified by the free energy of the unknown input state. Remarkably, our result partially encompasses the case of infinite-dimensional systems, for which optimal extractable work has not been known even for the standard state-aware setting. Our results clarify that, in spite of the crucial difference between the state-aware and state-agnostic scenarios in accomplishing information-theoretic tasks, whether we are in possession of information on the given state does not influence the optimal performance of the asymptotic work extraction.

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