2 papers
quant-ph2020
Gibbs mixing of partially distinguishable photons with a polarising beamsplitter membrane
Zoë Holmes, Florian Mintert, Janet Anders
For a thought experiment concerning the mixing of two classical gases, Gibbs concluded that the work that can be extracted from mixing is determined by whether or not the gases can…
quant-ph2018
The Coherent Crooks Equality
Z. Holmes
This chapter reviews an information theoretic approach to deriving quantum fluctuation theorems. When a thermal system is driven from equilibrium, random quantities of work are req…