A preliminary list of references in the field of quantum information and foundations of thermodynamics.
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Nature Physics (2011).
"Laser cooling of a nanomechanical oscillator into its quantum ground state",
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[arXiv]
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"Generalized Clausius inequality for nonequilibrium quantum processes",
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"Memory erasure in small systems",
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"Absence of thermalization
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"Pure state quantum statistical mechanics",
(2010).
[arXiv]
"Einselection without pointer states",
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"Is there a physically universal cellular automaton or Hamiltonian?",
(2010).
[arXiv]
"Thermodynamic cost of reliability and low temperatures: Tightening Landauer's principle and the Second Law",
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[arXiv]
"Diverging equilibration times in long-range quantum spin models ",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130601 (2011).
[arXiv] [DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.130601]
"Quantum Szilard engine",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 070401 (2011).
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"A quantum Newton's cradle",
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"Thermodynamical proof of the Gibbs formula for elementary quantum systems",
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"Quantum mechanical
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Phys. Rev. E 79:061103 (2009).
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"Cooling by heating: very hot thermal light can significantly cool quantum systems",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108. 120602 (2012).
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"Unifying typical entanglement and coin tossing: on randomization in probabilistic theories",
(2011).
[arXiv]
"Concentration of measure for quantum states with a fixed expectation value", Comm. Math. Phys. 303, 785 (2011).
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"Entanglement and the foundations of statistical mechanics",
Nature Physics 2, 754-758 (2006).
[arXiv] [DOI: 10.1038/nphys444]
"Inferring the Gibbs state of a small quantum system",
Phys. Rev. A 84, 012101 (2011) .
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"Reconstructing the relaxation dynamics induced by an unknown heat bath",
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"Foundation of Statistical Mechanics under experimentally realistic conditions",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 190403 (2008).
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"Thermalization in nature and on a quantum computer",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080402 (2012).
[DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.080402]
"The thermodynamic meaning of negative entropy",
Nature 474 (2011).
[arXiv] [DOI: 10.1038/nature10123]
"Second law of thermodynamics with discrete quantum feedback control"
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 080403 (2008).
[DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.080403]
"Minimal Energy Cost for Thermodynamic Information Processing: Measurement and Information Erasure",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 250602 (2009)
[DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.250602]
"Generalized Jarzynski Equality under Nonequilibrium Feedback Control",
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 090602 (2010).
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"Piezoresistive heat engine and refrigerator",
Nature Physics 7, 354–359 (2011).
[arXiv] [DOI: 10.1038/nphys1871]
"Experimental demonstration of information-to-energy conversion and validation of the generalized Jarzynski equality"
Nature Physics, 6, 988 (2010).
"Probing the relaxation towards equilibrium in an isolated strongly correlated 1D Bose gas",
Nature Physics (2012).
[arXiv] [DOI: 10.1038/nphys2232]
"Information erasure without an energy cost",
Proc. R. Soc. Lond. A 467, 1770-1778 (2011)
[DOI] [arXiv:1004.5330].
Bonus points to whomever compiles a Mendeley document with these references.