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The concept of ergotropy was previously introduced as the maximum extractable work from a quantum state. Its enhancement, which is induced by quantum correlation via projective measurement, was formulated as the daemonic ergotropy. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-06 Mohammad Ali Balkanlu , Esfandyar Faizi , Bahram Ahansaz

We discuss the problem of the separation of total correlations in a given quantum state into entanglement, dissonance, and classical correlations using the concept of relative entropy as a distance measure of correlations. This allows us to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-03 Kavan Modi , Tomasz Paterek , Wonmin Son , Vlatko Vedral , Mark Williamson

Deviations from classical physics when distant quantum systems become correlated are interesting both fundamentally and operationally. There exist situations where the correlations enable collaborative tasks that are impossible within the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-08 Farid Shahandeh , Austin P. Lund , Timothy C. Ralph

Quantum coherence, encoded in the off-diagonal elements of a system's density matrix, is a key resource in quantum thermodynamics, fundamentally limiting the maximum extractable work known as ergotropy. While previous experiments have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Li Li , Silu Zhao , Yun-Hao Shi , Kai Xu , Heng Fan , Dongning Zheng , Zhongcheng Xiang

The amount of extractable work from a physical system is fundamentally connected to the information available about its state, as illustrated by Maxwell's demon and the Gibbs paradox. In standard thermodynamic protocols involving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Tanmoy Biswas

Initial system-environment correlations are a thermodynamic resource, enabling work extraction via their erasure. We compare the work potential of classical, quantum, and hypothetical stronger-than-quantum correlations as a function of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-06 Karl Svozil

The study of quantum thermodynamics aims to elucidate the role played by quantum principles in the emergent features of quantum thermodynamic processes. Specifically, it is of fundamental importance to understand how quantum correlation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Jaewon Lee , Changsuk Noh , Kabgyun Jeong , Hyunchul Nha

One of the best signatures of nonclassicality in a quantum system is the existence of correlations that have no classical counterpart. Different methods for quantifying the quantum and classical parts of correlations are amongst the more…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-29 Kavan Modi , Aharon Brodutch , Hugo Cable , Tomasz Paterek , Vlatko Vedral

We give a pedagogical introduction to quantum discord. We the discuss the problem of separation of total correlations in a given quantum state into entanglement, dissonance, and classical correlations using the concept of relative entropy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-17 Kavan Modi , Vlatko Vedral

Effects of quantum and classical correlations on game theory are studied to clarify the new aspects brought into game theory by the quantum mechanical toolbox. In this study, we compare quantum correlation represented by a maximally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-08-07 Junichi Shimamura , Sahin Kaya Ozdemir , Fumiaki Morikoshi , Nobuyuki Imoto

We investigate the decomposition of ergotropy into incoherent and coherent contributions for quantum systems subject to typical Markovian noise channels. The incoherent part originates from population inversion in the energy eigenbasis…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Mohammad B. Arjmandi

This paper explores quantum heat engines based on qubit and qutrit working media interacting with thermal environments through generalized amplitude damping (GAD) channels. We investigate how quantum channels can be employed to model heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Indrajith VS , Disha Verma

Quantum thermodynamic process involves manipulating and controlling quantum states to extract energy or perform computational tasks with high efficiency. There is still no efficientgeneral method to theoretically quantify the effect of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Ming-Xing Luo

Work extraction protocol is always a significant issue in the context of quantum batteries, in which the notion of ergotropy is used to quantify a particular amount of energy that can be extracted through unitary processes. Given the total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 F. H. Kamin , S. Salimi , Alan C. Santos

Continuous-variable quantum thermodynamics in the Gaussian regime provides a promising framework for investigating the energetic role of quantum correlations, particularly in optical systems. In this work, we introduce an entropy-free…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-13 Beatriz Polo-Rodríguez , Federico Centrone , Gerardo Adesso , Mir Alimuddin

Nonclassicality in composite quantum systems depicts several puzzling manifestations, with Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement, Schr\"odinger steering, and Bell nonlocality being the most celebrated ones. In addition to those, an…

Recently some authors have pointed out that there exist nonclassical correlations which are more general, and possibly more fundamental, than entanglement. For these general quantum correlations and their classical counterparts, under the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-08 J. Maziero , L. C. Celeri , R. M. Serra , V. Vedral

Maximum quantum work extraction is generally defined in terms of the ergotropy functional, no matter how experimentally complicated is the implementation of the optimal unitary allowing for it, especially in the case of multipartite…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Riccardo Castellano , Ranieri Nery , Kyrylo Simonov , Donato Farina

A fundamental problem in quantum thermodynamics is to properly quantify the work extractable from out-of-equilibrium systems. While for closed systems, maximum quantum work extraction is defined in terms of the ergotropy functional, this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Riccardo Castellano , Donato Farina , Vittorio Giovannetti , Antonio Acin

We consider the amount of work which can be extracted from a heat bath using a bipartite state shared by two parties. In general it is less then the amount of work extractable when one party is in possession of the entire state. We derive…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jonathan Oppenheim , Michal Horodecki , Pawel Horodecki , Ryszard Horodecki