Papers by Marti Perarnau-Llobet
Physical review. E, 2016
A fundamental connection between thermodynamics and information theory arises from the fact that ... more A fundamental connection between thermodynamics and information theory arises from the fact that correlations exhibit an inherent work value. For noninteracting systems this translates to a work cost for establishing correlations. Here we investigate the relationship between work and correlations in the presence of interactions that cannot be controlled or removed. For such naturally coupled systems, which are correlated even in thermal equilibrium, we determine general strategies that can reduce the work cost of correlations, and illustrate these for a selection of exemplary physical systems.
Physical Review E, 2015
Passive states are defined as those states that do not allow for work extraction in a cyclic (uni... more Passive states are defined as those states that do not allow for work extraction in a cyclic (unitary) process. Within the set of passive states, thermal states are the most stable ones: they maximize the entropy for a given energy, and similarly they minimize the energy for a given entropy. Here we find the passive states lying in the other extreme, i.e., those that maximize the energy for a given entropy, which we show also minimize the entropy when the energy is fixed. These extremal properties make these states useful to obtain fundamental bounds for the thermodynamics of finitedimensional quantum systems, which we show in several scenarios.
New Journal of Physics, 2015
We investigate the fundamental limitations imposed by thermodynamics for creating correlations. C... more We investigate the fundamental limitations imposed by thermodynamics for creating correlations. Considering a collection of initially uncorrelated thermal quantum systems, we ask how much classical and quantum correlations can be obtained via a cyclic Hamiltonian process. We derive bounds on both the mutual information and entanglement of formation, as a function of the temperature of the systems and the available energy. We also characterize the maximal temperature that allows for the creation of entanglement. In the multipartite case, we consider several types of entanglement, in particular genuine multipartite and bipartite entanglement. This approach may find applications, e.g. in quantum information processing, for physical platforms in which thermodynamical considerations cannot be ignored. PACS numbers: 03.67.Mn,03.65.Ud
Physical Review E, 2015
We establish a rigorous connection between fundamental resource theories at the quantum scale. Co... more We establish a rigorous connection between fundamental resource theories at the quantum scale. Correlations and entanglement constitute indispensable resources for numerous quantum information tasks. However, their establishment comes at the cost of energy, the resource of thermodynamics, and is limited by the initial entropy. Here, the optimal conversion of energy into correlations is investigated. Assuming the presence of a thermal bath, we establish general bounds for arbitrary systems and construct a protocol saturating them. The amount of correlations, quantified by the mutual information, can increase at most linearly with the available energy, and we determine where the linear regime breaks down. We further consider the generation of genuine quantum correlations, focusing on the fundamental constituents of our universe: fermions and bosons. For fermionic modes, we find the optimal entangling protocol. For bosonic modes, we show that while Gaussian operations can be outperformed in creating entanglement, their performance is optimal for high energies.
We consider the problem of extracting work from isolated quantum systems composed of n subsystems... more We consider the problem of extracting work from isolated quantum systems composed of n subsystems. In this scenario the work can be naturally divided into two contributions: a local contribution from each subsystem, and a global contribution originating from correlations between subsystems. Here we focus on the latter and consider quantum systems which are locally thermal, thus from which work can only be extracted from correlations. We derive bounds on the extractable work for general quantum states, separable states, and states with fixed entropy. Our results show that while entanglement gives an advantage for small quantum systems, this gain vanishes for a large number of subsystems. arXiv:1407.7765v1 [quant-ph]
Physical Review Letters, 2013
We consider reversible work extraction from identical quantum systems. From an ensemble of indivi... more We consider reversible work extraction from identical quantum systems. From an ensemble of individually passive states, work can be produced only via global unitary (and thus entangling) operations. However, we show here that there always exists a method to extract all possible work without creating any entanglement, at the price of generically requiring more operations (i.e. additional time). We then study faster methods to extract work and provide a quantitative relation between the amount of generated multipartite entanglement and extractable work. Our results suggest a general relation between entanglement generation and the power of work extraction.
Physical Review Letters, 2013
We devise powerful algorithms based on differential evolution for adaptive many-particle quantum ... more We devise powerful algorithms based on differential evolution for adaptive many-particle quantum metrology. Our new approach delivers adaptive quantum metrology policies for feedback control that are orders-of-magnitude more efficient and surpass the few-dozen-particle limitation arising in methods based on particle-swarm optimization. We apply our method to the binary-decision-tree model for quantum-enhanced phase estimation as well as to a new problem: a decision tree for adaptive estimation of the unknown bias of a quantum coin in a quantum walk and show how this latter case can be realized experimentally.
Physical Review A, 2013
We review and generalize the recently introduced framework of entropy vectors for detecting and q... more We review and generalize the recently introduced framework of entropy vectors for detecting and quantifying genuine multipartite entanglement in high dimensional multicomponent quantum systems. We show that these ideas can be extended to discriminate among other forms of multipartite entanglement. In particular, we develop methods to test whether density matrices are: decomposable, i. e. separable with respect to certain given partitions of the subsystems; k-separable, i. e. separable with respect to k partitions of the subsystems; k-partite entangled, i.e. there is entanglement among a subset of at least k parties. We also discuss how to asses the dimensionality of entanglement in all these cases.
International Journal of Modern Physics B, 2014
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