# Work and reversibility in quantum thermodynamics

@article{Alhambra2018WorkAR,
title={Work and reversibility in quantum thermodynamics},
author={'Alvaro M. Alhambra and Stephanie Wehner and Mark M. Wilde and Mischa P. Woods},
journal={Physical Review A},
year={2018}
}
It is a central question in quantum thermodynamics to determine how irreversible is a process that transforms an initial state $\rho$ to a final state $\sigma$, and whether such irreversibility can be thought of as a useful resource. For example, we might ask how much work can be obtained by thermalizing $\rho$ to a thermal state $\sigma$ at temperature $T$ of an ambient heat bath. Here, we show that, for different sets of resource-theoretic thermodynamic operations, the amount of entropy… Expand
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