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Cooling the qubit into a pure initial state is crucial for realizing fault-tolerant quantum information processing. Here we envisage a star-topology arrangement of reset and computation qubits for this purpose. The reset qubits cool or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Varad R. Pande , Gaurav Bhole , Deepak Khurana , T. S. Mahesh

Quantum state purification is crucial in quantum communication and computation, aiming to recover a purified state from multiple copies of an unknown noisy state. This work introduces a general state purification framework designed to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-27 Hongshun Yao , Yu-Ao Chen , Erdong Huang , Kaichu Chen , Honghao Fu , Xin Wang

We addressed the question of optimality of private quantum channels. We have shown that the Shannon entropy of the classical key necessary to securely transfer the quantum information is lower bounded by the entropy exchange of the private…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jan Bouda , Mario Ziman

The Extended Wigner's Friend thought experiment, which involves a quantum system with an agent who draws conclusions based on the results of a measurement of a quantum state provided in two nonorthogonal versions by another agent, led its…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Szymon Łukaszyk

Purification is a process in which decoherence is partially reversed by using several input systems which have been subject to the same noise. The purity of the outputs generally increases with the number of input systems, and decreases…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Keyl , R. F. Werner

We prove a no-go theorem for storing quantum information in equilibrium systems. Namely, quantum information cannot be stored in a system with time-independent Hamiltonian interacting with heat bath of temperature $T>0$ during time that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Robert Alicki , Michal Horodecki

Algorithmic Cooling (AC) of spins applies entropy manipulation algorithms in open spin-systems in order to cool spins far beyond Shannon's entropy bound. AC of nuclear spins was demonstrated experimentally, and may contribute to nuclear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-01 Yuval Elias , Tal Mor , Yossi Weinstein

Quantum thermodynamics and quantum entanglement represent two pivotal quantum resource theories with significant relevance in quantum information science. Despite their importance, the intricate relationship between these two theories is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 Ray Ganardi , Piotr Masajada , Moein Naseri , Alexander Streltsov

In our work, we show how, for a network of bosonic modes, canonical commutation relations constrain the coefficients relating input and internal modes. Based on these constraints, we derive a lower bound on the total steady-state squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Xin Zhou , Francesco Massel

This thesis consolidates, improves and extends the smooth entropy framework for non-asymptotic information theory and cryptography. We investigate the conditional min- and max-entropy for quantum states, generalizations of classical R\'enyi…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-20 Marco Tomamichel

Masking of data is a method to protect information by shielding it from a third party, however keeping it usable for further usages like application development, building program extensions to name a few. Whereas it is possible for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Tamal Ghosh , Soumya Sarkar , Bikash K. Behera , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

We demonstrate that a quantum absorption refrigerator can be realized from the smallest quantum system, a qubit, by coupling it in a non-additive (strong) manner to three heat baths. This function is un-attainable for the qubit model under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Anqi Mu , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Gernot Schaller , Dvira Segal

We study the task of lifting arbitrary quantum states and channels to purifications and Stinespring dilations, respectively, in both the probabilistic exact and deterministic approximate settings. We formalize this task through a general…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Zoe G. del Toro , Jessica Bavaresco

Precise thermometry is of wide importance in science and technology in general and in quantum systems in particular. Here, we investigate fundamental precision limits for thermometry on cold quantum systems, taking into account constraints…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-02 Mathias R. Jørgensen , Patrick P. Potts , Matteo G. A. Paris , Jonatan B. Brask

The Brownian motion of a harmonically bound quantum particle and coupled to a harmonic quantum bath is exactly solvable. At low enough temperatures the stationary state is non-Gibbsian due to an entanglement with the bath. This happens when…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-07 Theo M. Nieuwenhuizen , Armen E. Allahverdyan

We proposed the finite-time cycle model of a measurement-based quantum cooler, where invasive measurement provides the power to drive the cooling cycle. Such a cooler may be regarded as an alternative thought experiment of Mawell's demon.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Tong Fu , Jianying Du , Jingyi Chen , Jincan Chen , Chikako Uchiyama , Shanhe Su

The thermodynamics of quantum systems coupled to periodically modulated heat baths and work reservoirs is developed. By identifying affinities and fluxes, the first and second law are formulated consistently. In the linear response regime,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-06-29 Kay Brandner , Udo Seifert

Thermodynamics is a branch of science blessed by an unparalleled combination of generality of scope and formal simplicity. Based on few natural assumptions together with the four laws, it sets the boundaries between possible and impossible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-02-06 Luis A. Correa , José P. Palao , Daniel Alonso , Gerardo Adesso

Fluctuation theorems provide a correspondence between properties of quantum systems in thermal equilibrium and a work distribution arising in a non-equilibrium process that connects two quantum systems with Hamiltonians $H_0$ and…

The goal of qubit purification is to combine multiple noisy copies of an unknown pure quantum state to obtain one or more copies that are closer to the pure state. We show that a simple protocol based solely on random SWAP tests achieves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Shrigyan Brahmachari , Austin Hulse , Henry D. Pfister , Iman Marvian