Autonomous Quantum Devices: When Are They Realizable without Additional Thermodynamic Costs?
Autonomous Quantum Devices: When Are They Realizable without Additional Thermodynamic Costs?
The resource theory of quantum thermodynamics has been a very successful theory and has generated much follow-up work in the community. It requires energy-preserving unitary operations to be implemented over a system, bath, and catalyst as part of its paradigm. So far, such unitary operations have been considered a "free" …