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The maximum entropy principle, as applied to quantum systems, is a fundamental prescript positing that for a quantum system for which we only have partial knowledge, the maximum entropy state consistent with the partial knowledge is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Siddhartha Das , Ujjwal Sen

Understanding the role of classical and quantum correlations in work extraction is a problem of fundamental importance in thermodynamics. We approach this problem by considering that, in closed quantum systems, the maximum cyclic work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-18 Gianluca Francica

We establish a procedure to find the extremal density matrices for any finite Hamiltonian of a qudit system. These extremal density matrices provide an approximate description of the energy spectra of the Hamiltonian. In the case of…

The quantum battery capacity is introduced in this letter as a figure of merit that expresses the potential of a quantum system to store and supply energy. It is defined as the difference between the highest and the lowest energy that can…

We use the idea of the symmetry between the spacetime coordinates x^\mu and the energy-momentum p^\mu in quantum theory to construct a momentum space quantum gravity geometry with a metric s_{\mu\nu} and a curvature P^\lambda_{\mu\nu\rho}.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-03-08 J. W. Moffat

We study how to achieve the ultimate power in the simplest, yet non trivial, model of a thermal machine, namely a two-level quantum system coupled to two thermal baths. Without making any prior assumption on the protocol, via optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-07 Paolo Andrea Erdman , Vasco Cavina , Rosario Fazio , Fabio Taddei , Vittorio Giovannetti

We characterize the impact that the application of two maps in a quantum-controlled order has on the process of work extraction via unitary cycles and its optimization. The control is based on the quantum switch model that applies maps in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-01 Kyrylo Simonov , Gianluca Francica , Giacomo Guarnieri , Mauro Paternostro

Recent studies have identified materials and devices whose behavior lies beyond the scope of conventional electronic-structure theory. Such theories are formulated entirely in terms of Hamiltonian evolution and therefore describe only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-03-24 Jochen Mannhart

We present a polynomial-time quantum algorithm for obtaining the energy spectrum of a physical system, i.e. the differences between the eigenvalues of the system's Hamiltonian, provided that the spectrum of interest contains at most a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-06-22 Hefeng Wang , S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

We propose a quantum harmonic oscillator measurement engine fueled by simultaneous quantum measurements of the non-commuting position and momentum quadratures of the quantum oscillator. The engine extracts work by moving the harmonic trap…

Quantum metrology studies the ultimate limit of precision in estimating a physical quantity if quantum strategies are exploited. Here we investigate the evolution of a two-level atom as a detector which interacts with a massless scalar…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-28 Zehua Tian , Jieci Wang , Heng Fan , Jiliang Jing

In measurement-based quantum computation, quantum algorithms are implemented via sequences of measurements. We describe a translationally invariant finite-range interaction on a one-dimensional qudit chain and prove that a single-shot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Dominik Janzing , Pawel Wocjan , Shengyu Zhang

We introduce the resource-theoretic free energy of a quantum channel as the maximal work extractable from the channel as its output equilibrates to a thermal state and its reference system remains locally intact. It is proportional to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Himanshu Badhani , Dhanuja G S , Siddhartha Das

We consider overdamped Brownian particles with two degrees of freedom (DoF) that are confined in a time-varying quadratic potential and are in simultaneous contact with heat baths of different temperatures along the respective DoF. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2024-06-21 Jordi Ventura Siches , Olga Movilla Miangolarra , Tryphon T. Georgiou

Quantum energy teleportation (QET), implemented via local operations and classical communication, enables carrier-free energy transfer by exploiting quantum resources. While QET has been extensively studied theoretically and validated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Xiaokun Yan , Kun Zhang , Jin Wang

We propose an approach to the realization of many-body quantum state distributions inspired by combined principles of thermodynamics and mesoscopic physics. Its essence is a maximum entropy principle conditioned by conservation laws. We go…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-25 Alexander Altland , David A. Huse , Tobias Micklitz

We consider the physical situations where the resource theories of coherence and thermodynamics play competing roles. In particular, we study the creation of quantum coherence using unitary operations with limited thermodynamic resources.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-01 Avijit Misra , Uttam Singh , Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Arun Kumar Pati

This paper discusses the energy optimal control problem for the class of quantum systems that possess dynamical symmetry of SU(1,1), which are widely studied in various physical problems in the quantum theory. Based on the maximum principle…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2007-09-13 Jian-Wu Wu , Chun-Wen Li , Jing Zhang , Tzyh-Jong Tarn

When a Dirac quantum state interacts with an applied electric field the energy of the quantum state changes. It is generally assumed that there is a maximum limit on the amount of energy that can be extracted from a Dirac quantum state, due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Dan Solomon

Measurements and feedback are essential in the control of any device operating at the quantum scale and exploiting the features of quantum physics. As the number of quantum components grows, it becomes imperative to consider the energetic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-11 Kais Abdelkhalek , Yoshifumi Nakata , David Reeb