How the third law limits our knowledge about quantum systems
Staff - Faculty of Informatics
Date: 20 February 2019 / 13:30 - 14:15
USI Lugano Campus, room A-34, Red building (Via G. Buffi 13)
Speaker:
Marcus Huber, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Vienna, Austria
Abstract:
The third law of thermodynamics can be phrased as an impossibility of cooling any physical system to absolute zero temperature. The projection postulate of quantum mechanics, however, predicts pure post-measurement states in idealised settings. We show how a self-contained treatment connects the two concepts and extends the impossibility of cooling to the impossibility of perfect measurements or Landauer erasure with finite thermodynamic resources.
Biography:
Marcus Huber is a group leader at IQOQI in Vienna. He has received his PhD from University of Vienna.
After, he has been a Marie-Curie Fellow at the University of Bristol, and held positions of the Universities of Geneva and the Universitat Autonoma di Barcelona.
Host: Prof. Stefan Wolf
