Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements

Quantum work is usually determined from two projective measurements of the energy at the beginning and at the end of a thermodynamic process. However, this paradigm cannot be considered thermodynamically consistent as it does not account for the thermodynamic cost of these measurements. To remedy th...

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Autor principal: Paz, Juan Pablo
Publicado: 2016
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Costs
Free energy
Average energy
Initial energy
Jarzynski equality
Maximum works
Projective measurement
Quantum measurement
Thermodynamic process
Thermodynamic quantities
Thermodynamics
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spelling paper:paper_24700045_v94_n1_p_Deffner2025-07-30T19:12:18Z Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements Paz, Juan Pablo Costs Free energy Average energy Initial energy Jarzynski equality Maximum works Projective measurement Quantum measurement Thermodynamic process Thermodynamic quantities Thermodynamics Quantum work is usually determined from two projective measurements of the energy at the beginning and at the end of a thermodynamic process. However, this paradigm cannot be considered thermodynamically consistent as it does not account for the thermodynamic cost of these measurements. To remedy this conceptual inconsistency we introduce a paradigm that relies only on the expected change of the average energy given the initial energy eigenbasis. In particular, we completely omit quantum measurements in the definition of quantum work, and hence quantum work is identified as a thermodynamic quantity of only the system. As main results we derive a modified quantum Jarzynski equality and a sharpened maximum work theorem in terms of the information free energy. A comparison of our results with the standard approach allows one to quantify the informational cost of projective measurements. © 2016 American Physical Society. Fil:Paz, J.P. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales; Argentina. 2016 https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_24700045_v94_n1_p_Deffner http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_24700045_v94_n1_p_Deffner
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topic Costs
Free energy
Average energy
Initial energy
Jarzynski equality
Maximum works
Projective measurement
Quantum measurement
Thermodynamic process
Thermodynamic quantities
Thermodynamics
spellingShingle Costs
Free energy
Average energy
Initial energy
Jarzynski equality
Maximum works
Projective measurement
Quantum measurement
Thermodynamic process
Thermodynamic quantities
Thermodynamics
Paz, Juan Pablo
Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements
topic_facet Costs
Free energy
Average energy
Initial energy
Jarzynski equality
Maximum works
Projective measurement
Quantum measurement
Thermodynamic process
Thermodynamic quantities
Thermodynamics
description Quantum work is usually determined from two projective measurements of the energy at the beginning and at the end of a thermodynamic process. However, this paradigm cannot be considered thermodynamically consistent as it does not account for the thermodynamic cost of these measurements. To remedy this conceptual inconsistency we introduce a paradigm that relies only on the expected change of the average energy given the initial energy eigenbasis. In particular, we completely omit quantum measurements in the definition of quantum work, and hence quantum work is identified as a thermodynamic quantity of only the system. As main results we derive a modified quantum Jarzynski equality and a sharpened maximum work theorem in terms of the information free energy. A comparison of our results with the standard approach allows one to quantify the informational cost of projective measurements. © 2016 American Physical Society.
author Paz, Juan Pablo
author_facet Paz, Juan Pablo
author_sort Paz, Juan Pablo
title Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements
title_short Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements
title_full Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements
title_fullStr Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements
title_full_unstemmed Quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements
title_sort quantum work and the thermodynamic cost of quantum measurements
publishDate 2016
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