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SUBMITTER: Guryanova Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4941046 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Guryanova Yelena Y Popescu Sandu S Short Anthony J AJ Silva Ralph R Skrzypczyk Paul P
Nature communications 20160707
Recently, there has been much progress in understanding the thermodynamics of quantum systems, even for small individual systems. Most of this work has focused on the standard case where energy is the only conserved quantity. Here we consider a generalization of this work to deal with multiple conserved quantities. Each conserved quantity, which, importantly, need not commute with the rest, can be extracted and stored in its own battery. Unlike the standard case, in which the amount of extractab ...[more]