Revealing the Work Cost of Generalized Thermal Baths

We derive the work cost of using generalized thermal baths from the physical equivalence of quantum mechanics under unitary transformations. We demonstrate our method by considering a qubit extracting work from a single bath to amplify a cavity field. There, we find that only half of the work invest...

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Main Author: Alexandre Roulet
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-12-01
Series:Entropy
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/20/12/973