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Quantum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 408
Author(s):  
Patryk Lipka-Bartosik ◽  
Paweł Mazurek ◽  
Michał Horodecki

In stochastic thermodynamics work is a random variable whose average is bounded by the change in the free energy of the system. In most treatments, however, the work reservoir that absorbs this change is either tacitly assumed or modelled using unphysical systems with unbounded Hamiltonians (i.e. the ideal weight). In this work we describe the consequences of introducing the ground state of the battery and hence — of breaking its translational symmetry. The most striking consequence of this shift is the fact that the Jarzynski identity is replaced by a family of inequalities. Using these inequalities we obtain corrections to the second law of thermodynamics which vanish exponentially with the distance of the initial state of the battery to the bottom of its spectrum. Finally, we study an exemplary thermal operation which realizes the approximate Landauer erasure and demonstrate the consequences which arise when the ground state of the battery is explicitly introduced. In particular, we show that occupation of the vacuum state of any physical battery sets a lower bound on fluctuations of work, while batteries without vacuum state allow for fluctuation-free erasure.



2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 032203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Arenz ◽  
Daniel Burgarth ◽  
Paolo Facchi ◽  
Robin Hillier


2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 456-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl Gustafson

AbstractWe comment on domain conditions that regulate when the adjoint of the sum or product of two unbounded operators is the sum or product of their adjoints, and related closure issues. The quantum mechanical problem PHP essentially selfadjoint for unbounded Hamiltonians is addressed, with new results.



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