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Large Deviation implies First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics

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To reconstruct thermodynamics based on the microscopic laws is one of the most important unfulfilled goals of statistical physics. Here, we show that the first law and the second law for adiabatic processes are derived from an assumption that "probability distributions of energy in Gibbs states satisfy large deviation", which is widely accepted as a property of thermodynamic equilibrium states. We define an adiabatic transformation as a randomized energy-preserving unitary transformations on the many-body systems and the work storage. As the second law, we show that an adiabatic transformation from a set of Gibbs states to another set of Gibbs states is possible if and only if the regularized von Neumann entropy becomes large. As the first law, we show that the energy loss of the thermodynamic systems during the adiabatic transformation is stored in the work storage as "work," in the following meaning; (i) the energy of the work storage takes certain values macroscopically, in the initial state and the final state. (ii) the entropy of the work storage in the final state is macroscopically equal to the entropy of the initial state. As corollaries, our results give the principle of maximam work and the first law for the isothermal processes.

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Universal limitations on implementing resourceful unitary evolutions

quant-ph · 2019-09-03 · conditional · novelty 7.0

For any resource measure satisfying invariance, continuity, and additivity, a resource-changing unitary cannot be perfectly realized with free unitaries and a finite-dimensional ancilla, and the achievable error shrinks only as the ancilla dimension grows.

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  • Universal limitations on implementing resourceful unitary evolutions quant-ph · 2019-09-03 · conditional · none · ref 65 · internal anchor

    For any resource measure satisfying invariance, continuity, and additivity, a resource-changing unitary cannot be perfectly realized with free unitaries and a finite-dimensional ancilla, and the achievable error shrinks only as the ancilla dimension grows.