Microcanonical and resource-theoretic derivations of the thermal state of a quantum system with noncommuting charges

A central concept in thermodynamics is the thermal state, which is the one towards which the system relaxes. Here, the authors derive the same state, through three different approaches, in the case of a quantum system whose conserved quantities correspond to operators that do not commute with one an...

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Main Authors: Nicole Yunger Halpern, Philippe Faist, Jonathan Oppenheim, Andreas Winter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12051