{
  "id": "1907.01596",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2019-07-02T19:33:01.000Z",
  "updated": "2019-07-02T19:33:01.000Z",
  "title": "Quantum Thermodynamics: An introduction to the thermodynamics of quantum information",
  "authors": [
    "Sebastian Deffner",
    "Steve Campbell"
  ],
  "comment": "115 pages. Preprint version of lecture notes / textbook aimed to be a graduate level introduction to topics in quantum thermodynamics. To be published in the IOP Concise physics textbook range",
  "categories": [
    "quant-ph",
    "cond-mat.mes-hall",
    "cond-mat.quant-gas",
    "cond-mat.stat-mech"
  ],
  "abstract": "This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of quantum thermodynamics, with particular focus on its relation to quantum information and its implications for quantum computers and next generation quantum technologies. The text, aimed at graduate level physics students with a working knowledge of quantum mechanics and statistical physics, provides a brief overview of the development of classical thermodynamics and its quantum formulation in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 then explores typical thermodynamic settings, such as cycles and work extraction protocols, when the working material is genuinely quantum. Finally, Chapter 3 explores the thermodynamics of quantum information processing and introduces the reader to some more state-of-the-art topics in this exciting and rapidly developing research field.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2019-07-02T19:33:01.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "quantum information",
      "quantum thermodynamics",
      "introduction",
      "graduate level physics students",
      "work extraction protocols"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "textbook",
      "lecture notes"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 115,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}