Efficient Quantum Work Reservoirs at the Nanoscale

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Main Authors: Lyu, Jinghao, Boyd, Alexander B., Crutchfield, James P.
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Published: 2023
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author Lyu, Jinghao
Boyd, Alexander B.
Crutchfield, James P.
author_facet Lyu, Jinghao
Boyd, Alexander B.
Crutchfield, James P.
contents When reformulated as a resource theory, thermodynamics can analyze system behaviors in the single-shot regime. In this, the work required to implement state transitions is bounded by α-Renyi divergences and so differs in identifying efficient operations compared to stochastic thermodynamics. Thus, a detailed understanding of the difference between stochastic and resource-theoretic thermodynamics is needed. To this end, we explore reversibility in the single-shot regime, generalizing the two-level work reservoirs used there to multi-level work reservoirs. This achieves reversibility in any transition in the single-shot regime. Building on this, we systematically develop multi-level work reservoirs in the nondissipation regime with and without catalysts. The resource-theoretic results show that two-level work reservoirs undershoot Landauer's bound, misleadingly implying energy dissipation during computation. In contrast, we demonstrate that multilevel work reservoirs achieve Landauer's bound while producing arbitrarily low entropy.
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spellingShingle Efficient Quantum Work Reservoirs at the Nanoscale
Lyu, Jinghao
Boyd, Alexander B.
Crutchfield, James P.
Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
When reformulated as a resource theory, thermodynamics can analyze system behaviors in the single-shot regime. In this, the work required to implement state transitions is bounded by α-Renyi divergences and so differs in identifying efficient operations compared to stochastic thermodynamics. Thus, a detailed understanding of the difference between stochastic and resource-theoretic thermodynamics is needed. To this end, we explore reversibility in the single-shot regime, generalizing the two-level work reservoirs used there to multi-level work reservoirs. This achieves reversibility in any transition in the single-shot regime. Building on this, we systematically develop multi-level work reservoirs in the nondissipation regime with and without catalysts. The resource-theoretic results show that two-level work reservoirs undershoot Landauer's bound, misleadingly implying energy dissipation during computation. In contrast, we demonstrate that multilevel work reservoirs achieve Landauer's bound while producing arbitrarily low entropy.
title Efficient Quantum Work Reservoirs at the Nanoscale
topic Quantum Physics
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17815