{"id":215433,"date":"2025-06-05T01:24:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/general-framework-bridges-quantum-thermodynamics-and-non-markovianity"},"modified":"2025-06-05T01:24:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T06:24:35","slug":"general-framework-bridges-quantum-thermodynamics-and-non-markovianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/general-framework-bridges-quantum-thermodynamics-and-non-markovianity","title":{"rendered":"General framework bridges quantum thermodynamics and non-Markovianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/general-framework-bridges-quantum-thermodynamics-and-non-markovianity2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The extraction of work (i.e., usable energy) from quantum processes is a key focus of quantum thermodynamics research, which explores the application of thermodynamics laws to quantum systems. Meanwhile, other quantum physics research has been investigating the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems, which entail the influence of past states on the systems\u2019 future evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Nottingham and University of S\u00e3o Paulo have introduced a general and rigorous framework that bridges <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+thermodynamics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum thermodynamics<\/a> and non-Markovian dynamics, showing that the latter could serve as a resource that can be exploited to enhance the extraction of work from quantum processes.<\/p>\n<p>Their paper, <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.134.200401\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Physical Review Letters<\/i>, could open new possibilities for the future development of quantum technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The extraction of work (i.e., usable energy) from quantum processes is a key focus of quantum thermodynamics research, which explores the application of thermodynamics laws to quantum systems. Meanwhile, other quantum physics research has been investigating the non-Markovian dynamics of open quantum systems, which entail the influence of past states on the systems\u2019 future evolution. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}