Reliability of asymptotic work extraction (opens in new tab)

Extracting work from quantum states is a fundamental task in quantum thermodynamics. Previous studies have primarily focused on determining the best achievable rate of work extraction, and remarkably, this characterization appeared to remain unchanged regardless of the choice of allowed processes: whether one considers the operationally motivated class of energy-conserving thermal operations, or the axiomatic class of Gibbs-preserving operations...