Mardi 04 décembre 2012 à 10h15
Salle MaNEP, Ecole de Physique

Work extraction from quantum systems

Paul Skrzypczyk, University of Cambridge, UK

I will look at the task of extracting work from quantum systems from the perspective of the resource theory of thermodynamics. I will present a simple protocol which is able to extract the optimal amount of work from a system in the asymptotic limit and look at certain special cases, that of Maxwell Demon type scenarios, as well as extracting work from coherence.