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| Paper IPM / Nano-Sciences / 14446 |
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We provide a characterization of energy in the form of exchanged heat and work between two interacting constituents of a closed, bipartite, correlated quantum system. By defining a binding energy we derive a consistent
quantum formulation of the first law of thermodynamics, in which the role of correlations becomes evident, and
this formulation reduces to the standard classical picture in relevant systems. We next discuss the emergence
of the second law of thermodynamics under certain-but fairly general-conditions such as the Markovian
assumption. We illustrate the role of correlations and interactions in thermodynamics through two examples.
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