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Quantum thermodynamics investigates how robust the second law of thermodynamics serves as the unique fundamental law in the small quantum world. To tackle this problem, the quantum coherence constitutes a major difficulty of investigations,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Naoto Shiraishi , Ryuji Takagi

Symmetries are a central concept in our understanding of physics. In quantum theories, a quantum reference frame (QRF) can be used to distinguish between observables related by a symmetry. The framework of operational QRFs provides a means…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-04-09 Daan W. Janssen

The theories of quantum mechanics and relativity dramatically altered our understanding of the universe ushering in the era of modern physics. Quantum theory deals with objects probabilistically at small scales, whereas relativity deals…

General Physics · Physics 2021-04-13 John Skilling , Kevin H. Knuth

Passive states, i.e., those states from which no work can be extracted via unitary operations, play an important role in the foundations and applications of quantum thermodynamics. They generalize the familiar Gibbs thermal states, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-13 Uttam Singh , Siddhartha Das , Nicolas J. Cerf

We develop the laws of thermodynamics in terms of general exponential families. By casting learning (log-loss minimization) problems in max-entropy and statistical mechanics terms, we translate thermodynamics results to learning scenarios.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-07 Akshay Balsubramani

The central objects in a quantum field theory are its n-point correlation functions and matrix elements. Their structure is determined by Lorentz invariance and leads to tensor decompositions whose Lorentz-invariant coefficient functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-03 Gernot Eichmann

We present a theoretical framework called Lorentz quantum mechanics, where the dynamics of a system is a complex Lorentz transformation in complex Minkowski space. In contrast, in usual quantum mechanics, the dynamics is the unitary…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-18 Qi Zhang , Biao Wu

We develop a rigorous framework for quantifying quantum coherence in finite-dimensional systems by applying the Schur-Horn majorization theorem to relate eigenvalue distributions and diagonal entries of density matrices. Building on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-06 Tariq Aziz , Meng-Long Song , Liu Ye , Dong Wang

{\em Quantum Fourier analysis} is a new subject that combines an algebraic Fourier transform (pictorial in the case of subfactor theory) with analytic estimates. This provides interesting tools to investigate phenomena such as quantum…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-06-30 Arthur Jaffe , Chunlan Jiang , Zhengwei Liu , Yunxiang Ren , Jinsong Wu

Quantum coherence is a crucial resource for quantum information processing. By employing the language of coherence orders largely applied in NMR systems, quantum coherence has been currently addressed in terms of multiple quantum coherences…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-12 Diego Paiva Pires , Augusto Smerzi , Tommaso Macrì

The emergence of irreversibility in physical processes, despite the fundamentally reversible nature of quantum mechanics, remains an open question in physics. This thesis explores the intricate relationship between quantum mechanics and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Alberto Rolandi

In spite of enormous theoretical and experimental progresses in quantum uncertainty relations, the experimental investigation of most current, and universal formalism of uncertainty relations, namely majorization uncertainty relations…

Geometric (Schrodinger) quantization of nonrelativistic mechanics with respect to different reference frames is considered. In classical nonrelativistic mechanics, a reference frame is represented by a connection on a configuration space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 L. Mangiarotti , G. Sardanashvily

In most approaches to fundamental physics, spacetime symmetries are postulated a priori and then explicitly implemented in the theory. This includes Lorentz covariance in quantum field theory and diffeomorphism invariance in quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-14 Philipp A. Hoehn , Markus P. Mueller

Quantum coherence and quantum correlations lie in the center of quantum information science, since they both are considered as fundamental reasons for significant features of quantum mechanics different from classical mechanics. We present…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-14 Zeyang Fan , Yi Peng , Yu-Ran Zhang , Shang Liu , Liang-Zhu Mu , Heng Fan

We review recent work on the foundations of thermodynamics in the light of quantum information theory. We adopt a resource-theoretic perspective, wherein thermodynamics is formulated as a theory of what agents can achieve under a particular…

We present the elements of a new approach to the foundations of quantum theory and probability theory which is based on the algebraic approach to integration, information geometry, and maximum relative entropy methods. It enables us to deal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2011-09-13 Ryszard Paweł Kostecki

The grand canonical ensemble lies at the core of quantum and classical statistical mechanics. A small system thermalizes to this ensemble while exchanging heat and particles with a bath. A quantum system may exchange quantities represented…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-25 Nicole Yunger Halpern , Philippe Faist , Jonathan Oppenheim , Andreas Winter

We investigate manipulations of pure quantum states under incoherent or strictly incoherent operations assisted by a coherence battery, that is, a storage device whose degree of coherence is allowed to fluctuate in the process. This leads…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Benjamin Morris , Gerardo Adesso

We investigate the equilibration and thermalization properties of quantum systems interacting with a finite dimensional environment. By exploiting the concept of time averaged states, we introduce a completely positive map which allows to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-27 A. Smirne , E. -M. Laine , H. -P. Breuer , J. Piilo , B. Vacchini