Quantum thermodynamics : quantum szilard engine powered by quantum coherence

• Main Author: Gan, Beng Yee
• Other Authors: Gu Mile
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2020
• Subjects: Science::Physics::Atomic physics::Quantum theory; Science::Physics::Heat and thermodynamics
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139905
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Traditional thermodynamics assumes that physical systems live in a probabilistic mixture of energy eigenstates, such that any lack of knowledge of each system’s definite energy is due to classical uncertainty. However, quantum mechanics enables systems to be a quantum superposition of eigenstates, a...