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Cooling to absolute zero: The unattainability principle
Nahuel Freitas, Rodrigo Gallego, Lluís Masanes +1
The unattainability principle (UP) is an operational formulation of the third law of thermodynamics stating the impossibility to bring a system to its ground state in finite time.…
By-passing fluctuation theorems
Paul Boes, Rodrigo Gallego, Nelly H. Y. Ng +2
Fluctuation theorems impose constraints on possible work extraction probabilities in thermodynamical processes. These constraints are stronger than the usual second law, which is c…
Von Neumann entropy from unitarity
P. Boes, J. Eisert, R. Gallego +2
The von Neumann entropy is a key quantity in quantum information theory and, roughly speaking, quantifies the amount of quantum information contained in a state when many identical…
Catalytic quantum randomness
P. Boes, H. Wilming, R. Gallego +1
Randomness is a defining element of mixing processes in nature and an essential ingredient to many protocols in quantum information. In this work, we investigate how much randomnes…
What it takes to shun equilibration
R. Gallego, H. Wilming, J. Eisert +1
Numerous works have shown that under mild assumptions unitary dynamics inevitably leads to equilibration of physical expectation values if many energy eigenstates contribute to the…
Statistical ensembles without typicality
Paul Boes, Henrik Wilming, Jens Eisert +1
Maximum-entropy ensembles are key primitives in statistical mechanics from which thermodynamic properties can be derived. Over the decades, several approaches have been put forward…