Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

The tight Second Law inequality for coherent quantum systems and finite-size heat baths

  • Marcin Łobejko

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21140-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Quantum versions of the second law of thermodynamics proposed so far required an infinite bath and ideal energy storage in order to be tight. Here, Łobejko loosens these requirements, proving a tight upper bound on the average work that can be extracted in a quantum scenario.