Generalized laws of thermodynamics in the presence of correlations

In presence of inter-system correlations, violations of the laws of thermodynamics become possible. Here, the authors develop a formalism redefining heat, work and thermodynamic laws in terms of quantum conditional entropy, which consistently generalize thermodynamics in correlated scenarios.

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Main Authors: Manabendra N. Bera, Arnau Riera, Maciej Lewenstein, Andreas Winter
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ee76bc0c1dcb42db8045417b1b1231ae
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