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SUBMITTER: Marvian I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6946712 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20200107 1
The role of coherence in quantum thermodynamics has been extensively studied in the recent years and it is now well-understood that coherence between different energy eigenstates is a resource independent of other thermodynamics resources, such as work. A fundamental remaining open question is whether the laws of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics allow the existence of a coherence distillation machine, i.e., a machine that, by possibly consuming work, obtains pure coherent states from mixed s ...[more]