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Thermal Recall: Memory-Assisted Markovian Thermal Processes

Czartowski, Jakub ; de Oliveira Junior, A. ; Korzekwa, Kamil

PRX quantum, 2023-10, Vol.4 (4), p.040304, Article 040304 [Periódico revisado por pares]

American Physical Society

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  • Título:
    Thermal Recall: Memory-Assisted Markovian Thermal Processes
  • Autor: Czartowski, Jakub ; de Oliveira Junior, A. ; Korzekwa, Kamil
  • É parte de: PRX quantum, 2023-10, Vol.4 (4), p.040304, Article 040304
  • Descrição: We develop a resource-theoretic framework that allows one to bridge the gap between two approaches to quantum thermodynamics based on Markovian thermal processes (which model memoryless dynamics) and thermal operations (which model arbitrarily non-Markovian dynamics). Our approach is built on the notion of memory-assisted Markovian thermal processes, where memoryless thermodynamic processes are promoted to non-Markovianity by explicitly modeling ancillary memory systems initialized in thermal equilibrium states. Within this setting, we propose a family of protocols composed of sequences of elementary two-level thermalizations that approximate all transitions between energy-incoherent states accessible via thermal operations. We prove that, as the size of the memory increases, these approximations become arbitrarily good for all transitions in the infinite temperature limit, and for a subset of transitions in the finite temperature regime. Furthermore, we present solid numerical evidence for the convergence of our protocol to any transition at finite temperatures. We also explain how our framework can be used to quantify the role played by memory effects in thermodynamic protocols such as work extraction. Finally, our results show that elementary control over two energy levels at a given time is sufficient to generate all energy-incoherent transitions accessible via thermal operations if one allows for ancillary thermal systems.
  • Editor: American Physical Society
  • Idioma: Inglês
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