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PHYSICAL REVIEW A
Volume 89, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.89.032327
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- Spanish MICINN [FIS2009-10061, FIS2012-33152]
- CAM research consortium QUITEMAD [S2009-ESP-1594]
- European Commission [249958]
- UCM-BS Grant [GICC-910758]
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We introduce quantum information engines that extractwork from quantum states and a single thermal reservoir. They may operate under three general conditions-(1) unitarily steered evolution (US), driven by a restricted set of available Hamiltonians; (2) irreversible thermalization (IT), and (3) isothermal relaxation (IR)-and hence are called USITIR machines. They include novel engines without traditional feedback control mechanisms, as well as versions which also include them. Explicit constructions of USITIR engines are presented for oneand two-qubit states and their maximum extractable work is computed, which is optimal. Optimality is achieved when the notions of controllable thermalizability and density matrix controllability are fulfilled. Then many-body extensions of USITIR engines are also analyzed and conditions for optimal work extraction are identified. When they are not met, we measure their lack of optimality by means of newly defined uncontrollable entropies, which are explicitly computed for some selected examples. This includes cases of distinguishable and indistinguishable particles.
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