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Main Authors: Hu, Xueyuan, Scarani, Valerio
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10054
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author Hu, Xueyuan
Scarani, Valerio
author_facet Hu, Xueyuan
Scarani, Valerio
contents We introduce a class of thermal operations based on the collision model, where the system sequentially interacts with uncorrelated bath molecules via energy-preserving unitaries. To ensure finite complexity, each molecule is constrained to be no larger than the system. We identify a necessary condition for cooling below the bath temperature via a single collision: the system must initially lack a well-defined effective temperature, even a negative one. By constructing a iterative protocol, we demonstrate that sub-bath cooling is achievable without a machine under these restricted thermal operations. Moreover, introducing a qubit machine further enhances both the cooling limit and energy efficiency. These findings contribute to the broader study of cooling with finite resources.
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spellingShingle Thermalization of finite complexity and its application to heat bath algorithmic cooling
Hu, Xueyuan
Scarani, Valerio
Quantum Physics
We introduce a class of thermal operations based on the collision model, where the system sequentially interacts with uncorrelated bath molecules via energy-preserving unitaries. To ensure finite complexity, each molecule is constrained to be no larger than the system. We identify a necessary condition for cooling below the bath temperature via a single collision: the system must initially lack a well-defined effective temperature, even a negative one. By constructing a iterative protocol, we demonstrate that sub-bath cooling is achievable without a machine under these restricted thermal operations. Moreover, introducing a qubit machine further enhances both the cooling limit and energy efficiency. These findings contribute to the broader study of cooling with finite resources.
title Thermalization of finite complexity and its application to heat bath algorithmic cooling
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10054