Introducing one-shot work into fluctuation relations

DOI10.1088/1367-2630/17/9/095003MaRDI QIDQ5136118zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nicole Yunger Halpern, Andrew J. P. Garner, Oscar C. O. Dahlsten, Vlatko Vedral

Publication date 25 November 2020

Published in New Journal of Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3878

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Foundations of thermodynamics and heat transfer (80A05) Uncertainty relations, also entropic (81S07)

Abstract: Two approaches to small-scale and quantum thermodynamics are fluctuation relations and one-shot statistical mechanics. Fluctuation relations (such as Crooks' Theorem and Jarzynski's Equality) relate nonequilibrium behaviors to equilibrium quantities such as free energy. One-shot statistical mechanics involves statements about every run of an experiment, not just about averages over trials. We investigate the relation between the two approaches. We show that both approaches feature the same notions of work and the same notions of probability distributions over possible work values. The two approaches are alternative toolkits with which to analyze these distributions. To combine the toolkits, we show how one-shot work quantities can be defined and bounded in contexts governed by Crooks' Theorem. These bounds provide a new bridge from one-shot theory to experiments originally designed for testing fluctuation theorems.

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• The extraction of work from quantum coherence
• Optimal work extraction and the minimum description length principle
• Focus on quantum thermodynamics
• Microcanonical thermodynamics in general physical theories
• Finite-time bounds on the probabilistic violation of the second law of thermodynamics
• Rényi complexity in mean-field disordered systems

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