TY - JOUR
T1 - Most energetic passive states
AU - Perarnau-Llobet, Marti
AU - Hovhannisyan, Karen
AU - Huber, Marcus
AU - Skrzypczyk, Paul
AU - Tura, Jordi
AU - Acin, Antonio
PY - 2015/10/22
Y1 - 2015/10/22
N2 - Passive states are defined as those states that do not allow for work extraction in a cyclic (unitary) process. Within the set of passive states, thermal states are the most stable ones: they maximize the entropy for a given energy, and similarly they minimize the energy for a given entropy. Here we find the passive states lying in the other extreme, i.e., those that maximize the energy for a given entropy, which we show also minimize the entropy when the energy is fixed. These extremal properties make these states useful to obtain fundamental bounds for the thermodynamics of finite dimensional quantum systems, which we show in several scenarios.
AB - Passive states are defined as those states that do not allow for work extraction in a cyclic (unitary) process. Within the set of passive states, thermal states are the most stable ones: they maximize the entropy for a given energy, and similarly they minimize the energy for a given entropy. Here we find the passive states lying in the other extreme, i.e., those that maximize the energy for a given entropy, which we show also minimize the entropy when the energy is fixed. These extremal properties make these states useful to obtain fundamental bounds for the thermodynamics of finite dimensional quantum systems, which we show in several scenarios.
U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.042147
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.042147
M3 - Article (Academic Journal)
C2 - 26565208
VL - 92
JO - Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
JF - Physical Review E: Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
SN - 1539-3755
M1 - 042147
ER -