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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 120, Issue 12, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.120602
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- ERC (TAQ)
- Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Alexander von Humboldt foundation
- DFG [GA 2184/2-1, CRC 183, EI 519/7-1, EI 519/14-1]
- EU (AQuS)
- Templeton Foundation
- Spanish Ministry MINECO [FIS2016-79508-P, SEV-2015-0522]
- Fundacio Cellex
- Generalitat de Catalunya (AGAUR) [2017 SGR 1341, SGR 875]
- ERC AdG OSYRIS
- EU FETPRO QUIC
- CELLEX-ICFO-MPQ fellowship
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Quantum systems strongly coupled to many-body systems equilibrate to the reduced state of a global thermal state, deviating from the local thermal state of the system as it occurs in the weak-coupling limit. Taking this insight as a starting point, we study the thermodynamics of systems strongly coupled to thermal baths. First, we provide strong-coupling corrections to the second law applicable to general systems in three of its different readings: As a statement of maximal extractable work, on heat dissipation, and bound to the Carnot efficiency. These corrections become relevant for small quantum systems and vanish in first order in the interaction strength. We then move to the question of power of heat engines, obtaining a bound on the power enhancement due to strong coupling. Our results are exemplified on the paradigmatic non-Markovian quantum Brownian motion.
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