• DOI:10.1038/ncomms7383
Corpus ID: 902423

Description of quantum coherence in thermodynamic processes requires constraints beyond free energy

@article{Lostaglio2015DescriptionOQ,
  title={Description of quantum coherence in thermodynamic processes requires constraints beyond free energy},
  author={Matteo Lostaglio and D. Jennings and T. Rudolph},
  journal={Nature Communications},
  year={2015},
  volume={6}
}

Matteo Lostaglio, D. Jennings, T. Rudolph

Published 2015

Computer Science, Physics, Medicine

Nature Communications

Recent studies have developed fundamental limitations on nanoscale thermodynamics, in terms of a set of independent free energy relations. Here we show that free energy relations cannot properly describe quantum coherence in thermodynamic processes. By casting time-asymmetry as a quantifiable, fundamental resource of a quantum state, we arrive at an additional, independent set of thermodynamic constraints that naturally extend the existing ones. These asymmetry relations reveal that the… CONTINUE READING

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