Quantum thermodynamics with missing reference frames: Decompositions of free energy into non-increasing components

Details Quantum thermodynamics with missing reference frames: Decompositions of free energy into non-increasing components Quantum thermodynamics with missing reference frames: Decompositions of free energy into non-increasing components

2005-11-30

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0511271v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

17 pages, latex, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1007/s10955-006-9220-x

If an absolute reference frame with respect to time, position, or orientation is missing one can only implement quantum operations which are covariant with respect to the corresponding unitary symmetry group G. Extending observations of Vaccaro et al., I argue that the free energy of a quantum system with G-invariant Hamiltonian then splits up into the Holevo information of the orbit of the state under the action of G and the free energy of its orbit average. These two kinds of free energy cannot be converted into each other. The first component is subadditive and the second superadditive; in the limit of infinitely many copies only the usual free energy matters. Refined splittings of free energy into more than two independent (non-increasing) terms can be defined by averaging over probability measures on G that differ from the Haar measure. Even in the presence of a reference frame, these results provide lower bounds on the amount of free energy that is lost after applying a covariant channel. If the channel properly decreases one of these quantities, it decreases the free energy necessarily at least by the same amount, since it is unable to convert the different forms of free energies into each other.

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