Catalytic quantum thermodynamics beyond additivity and reduced-state monotones

arXiv:2604.21509 · quant-ph · Submitted 2026-04-23 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-04-23

Updated: 2026-09-27

Terminology

• Additivity — 23× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Trace — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Gibbs State — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Abstraction — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Admissibility — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Entanglement — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Generalization — 1× in this paper · explained in 13 episodes
• Regularization — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Recovery of the second law in fully quantum thermodynamics
• Inequalities that Collectively Completely Characterize the Catalytic Majorization Relation

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