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Relative thermalization.

Lídia Del Rio^1,2, Adrian Hutter^2,3,4, Renato Renner²

¹School of Physics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TL Bristol, United Kingdom.

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Quantum entanglement allows heat to flow from cold to hot systems, challenging thermodynamics. A stronger definition of thermalization, requiring local thermal states and no correlation with a quantum reference, restores thermodynamic laws for nanoscale systems.

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Area of Science:

Quantum thermodynamics
Statistical mechanics
Quantum information theory

Background:

Quantum systems can exhibit non-classical thermodynamic behavior due to entanglement.
Traditional thermodynamics may not fully apply to highly entangled quantum systems.
Nanoscale quantum systems require advanced thermodynamic frameworks.

Purpose of the Study:

To reconcile quantum mechanics with thermodynamic laws.
To introduce a robust definition of thermalization for quantum systems.
To establish conditions for thermodynamic consistency in quantum thermodynamics.

Main Methods:

Derivation of a technical condition for relative thermalization.
Utilizing conditional entropies to define thermalization.
Analysis of quantum systems with general quantum references.

Main Results:

A stronger notion of thermalization is proposed: a system is thermal relative to a reference if it is locally thermal and uncorrelated.
This stronger definition recovers traditional thermodynamic laws, even with quantum entanglement.
Established results on local thermalization are shown to be special cases.

Conclusions:

Relative thermalization provides a framework to apply thermodynamics to quantum systems.
The findings are crucial for understanding thermodynamics in nanoscale quantum devices.
The derived condition based on conditional entropies offers a practical tool for analysis.