TY - JOUR
T1 - Taming catalysts in quantum thermodynamics
AU - Skrzypczyk, Paul
PY - 2015/8/19
Y1 - 2015/8/19
N2 - Auxiliary quantum systems which can be borrowed to help facilitate thermodynamic processes but must be returned almost undisturbed - i.e. catalysts - are very powerful objects in quantum thermodynamics. In fact, they appear almost too powerful, since they allow for any state transformation to be carried out while being disturbed by an arbitrarily small amount. In their recent paper Ng et al (2015 New J. Phys. 17 085004) show how to tame catalysts in quantum thermodynamics by placing additional physical constraints on them, in terms of dimension and energy.
AB - Auxiliary quantum systems which can be borrowed to help facilitate thermodynamic processes but must be returned almost undisturbed - i.e. catalysts - are very powerful objects in quantum thermodynamics. In fact, they appear almost too powerful, since they allow for any state transformation to be carried out while being disturbed by an arbitrarily small amount. In their recent paper Ng et al (2015 New J. Phys. 17 085004) show how to tame catalysts in quantum thermodynamics by placing additional physical constraints on them, in terms of dimension and energy.
KW - catalysis
KW - quantum thermodynamics
KW - resource theories
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84941595618&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1367-2630/17/8/081003
DO - 10.1088/1367-2630/17/8/081003
M3 - Comment/debate (Academic Journal)
AN - SCOPUS:84941595618
SN - 1367-2630
VL - 17
JO - New Journal of Physics
JF - New Journal of Physics
IS - 8
M1 - 081003
ER -