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arxiv: 0706.2947 · v1 · submitted 2007-06-20 · 🪐 quant-ph

Quantum Coherence Engines

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keywords coherencebasisbathenginesextractfutilegenerateheat
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In a report published in Science, Scully et al propose to generate "phaseonium", and "extract work from a single heat bath via vanishing coherence" [1]. On the basis of the laws of physics, such a proposal is futile for at least two reasons.

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