Quantum coherence, time-translation symmetry, and thermodynamics

Physical Review X

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Lostaglio, Matteo ^a   Korzekwa, Kamil ^a   Jennings, David ^a   Rudolph, Terry ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; QUANTUM OPTICS; THERMODYNAMICS;

FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS; QUANTUM COHERENCE; SYMMETRY ANALYSIS; SYMMETRY CONSTRAINTS; THERMAL OPERATIONS; TRANSFER OF COHERENCES; TRANSLATION SYMMETRY; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84929466050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21603308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevX.5.021001     Document Type: Article

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