Thermodynamical cost of accessing quantum information
- Author(s)
- Koji Maruyama, Caslav Brukner, Vlatko Vedral
- Abstract
Thermodynamics is a macroscopic physical theory whose two very general laws are independent of any underlying dynamical laws and structures. Nevertheless, its generality enables us to understand a broad spectrum of phenomena in physics, information science and biology. Does thermodynamics then imply any results in quantum information theory? Taking accessible information in a system as an example, we show that thermodynamics implies a weaker bound on it than the quantum mechanical one (the Holevo bound). In other words, if any post-quantum physics should allow more information storage it could still be under the umbrella of thermodynamics. Π2005 IOP Publishing Ltd.
- Organisation(s)
- External organisation(s)
- Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- Journal
- Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General
- Volume
- 38
- Pages
- 7175-7181
- No. of pages
- 7
- ISSN
- 0305-4470
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0305-4470/38/32/007
- Publication date
- 2005
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103026 Quantum optics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/344a0c3f-29d6-4207-90b7-ddfe5e40cc78