Catalysts open up new reaction pathways that can speed up chemical reactions while not
consuming the catalyst. A similar phenomenon has been discovered in quantum information …

In 1835, Jacob Berzelius observed a common feature among several chemical reactions:
they all required an additional substance, which remained unchanged in the process. He …

I show that nondecreasing entropy provides a necessary and sufficient condition to convert
the state of a physical system into a different state by a reversible transformation that acts on …

Quantum resource manipulation may include an ancillary state called a catalyst, which aids
the transformation while restoring its original form at the end, and characterizing the …

Thermal operations (TO) are a generic description for allowed state transitions under
thermodynamic restrictions. However, the quest for simpler methods to encompass all these …

The von Neumann entropy is a key quantity in quantum information theory and, roughly
speaking, quantifies the amount of quantum information contained in a state when many …

We investigate catalysis in the framework of elementary thermal operations, leveraging the
distinct features of such operations to illuminate catalytic dynamics. As groundwork, we …

Catalysts are substances that assist transformation of other resourceful objects without being
consumed in the process. However, the fact that their “catalytic power” is limited and can be …

The environment of an open quantum system is usually modelled as a large many-body
quantum system. However, when an isolated quantum system itself is a many-body quantum …

Masking quantum information, which is impossible without randomness as a resource, is a
task that encodes quantum information into the bipartite quantum state while forbidding local …