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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 92, Issue 4, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.92.042147
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- Spanish project FOQUS
- ERC CoG QITBOX
- EU project SIQS
- COST Action [MP1209]
- Generalitat de Catalunya
- Severo Ochoa program
- Spanish Grant [FPU13/05988]
- Spanish MINECO [FIS2013-40627-P]
- Juan de la Cierva fellowship [JCI 2012-14155]
- Generalitat de Catalunya CIRIT [2014 SGR 966]
- EU
- Marie Curie COFUND action through ICFOnest program
- ERC AdG NLST
- John Templeton Foundation
- Spanish Ministry project FOQUS [FIS2013-46768]
- Generalitat de Catalunya project [2014 SGR 874]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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Passive states are defined as those states that do not allow for work extraction in a cyclic (unitary) process. Within the set of passive states, thermal states are the most stable ones: they maximize the entropy for a given energy, and similarly they minimize the energy for a given entropy. Here we find the passive states lying in the other extreme, i.e., those that maximize the energy for a given entropy, which we show also minimize the entropy when the energy is fixed. These extremal properties make these states useful to obtain fundamental bounds for the thermodynamics of finite-dimensional quantum systems, which we show in several scenarios.
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