Entropy, divergence, and majorization in classical and quantum thermodynamics

DOI10.1007/978-981-16-6644-5zbMATH Open1505.80001arXiv2007.09974OpenAlexW3042435537MaRDI QIDQ5024326FDOQ5024326

Authors: Takahiro Sagawa 

Publication date: 28 January 2022

Published in: SpringerBriefs in Mathematical Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In these decades, it has been revealed that there is rich information-theoretic structure in thermodynamics of out-of-equilibrium systems in both the classical and quantum regimes. This has led to the fruitful interplay among statistical physics, quantum information theory, and mathematical theories including matrix analysis and asymptotic probability theory. The main purpose of this book is to clarify how information theory works behind thermodynamics and to shed modern light on it. We focus on both of purely information-theoretic concepts and their physical implications: We present self-contained and rigorous proofs of several fundamental properties of entropies, divergences, and majorization. We also discuss the modern formulations of thermodynamics, especially from the perspectives of stochastic thermodynamics and resource theory of thermodynamics. Resource theory is a recently-developed field as a branch of quantum information theory in order to quantify (energetically or information-theoretically) "useful resources." We show that resource theory has an intrinsic connection to various fundamental ideas of mathematics and information theory. This book is not intended to be a comprehensive review of the field, but would serve as a concise introduction to several important ingredients of the information-theoretic formulation of thermodynamics.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.09974

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zbMATH Keywords

quantum information theoryresource theoryclassical thermodynamicsquantum majorizationquantum thermodynamicsentropies and divergence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Measures of information, entropy (94A17) Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to quantum theory (81-02) Quantum coherence, entanglement, quantum correlations (81P40) Quantum information, communication, networks (quantum-theoretic aspects) (81P45) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistical mechanics (82-02) Statistical thermodynamics (82B30) Irreversible thermodynamics, including Onsager-Machlup theory (82C35) Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to classical thermodynamics (80-02)

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