Here is our paper: enjoy!!!

scirate.com/arxiv/2507.1...

I'm so happy that this piece is finally out there for all the quantum thermodynamics and information theory enthusiasts. Not to mention, it's great fun to work with friends whom I always learn so much from. Thanks Seokhyung, @perp-waterfall.bsky.social, Paul Boes, @arrr.de for the fun journey ❤️

We learnt that thermal operations strike a really sweet spot between encompassing non-Markovian effects in the form of robust catalysis, therefore favouring it over subsets of the theory. At the same, any other superset of the theory would require a non-equilibrium environment!

Years down the road, Jeongrak and I were trying to figure out whether robust catalytic advantage exists for thermal operations. We then realized that the conceptual key was hidden in those early, unannounced results by our friends all along!
arxiv.org/abs/2412.06900

This project was a loooong time in the making. It started with Henrik, Paul, and Seok Hyung studying how catalytic channels enter the hierarchy of unital maps, and induce a rich structure. The central insight that equilibrating maps single out thermal operations was established then.

Here is the paper: enjoy!
scirate.com/arxiv/2507.1...

I'm so happy that this piece is finally out there for all the quantum thermodynamics and information theory enthusiasts not to mention, it'S great fun to work with friends whom lalways learn so much from. Thanks Seokhyung, @perp-waterfall.bsky.social, Paul Boes, @arrr.de for the fun journey ❤️

We learnt that thermal operations strike a sweet spot between encompassing non-Markovian effects in the form of robust catalysis, therefore favouring it over subsets of the theory. At the same, any other superset of the theory would require a non-equilibrium environment!

Years down the road, Jeongrak and I were puzzling over whether robust catalytic advantage exists for thermal operations, only to realize the conceptual key was hidden in those early, unpublished results all along
arxiv.org/abs/2412.06900

This project was a loooong time in the making. > started with Henrik, Paul, and Seok Hyung studying how catalytic channels enter the hierarchy of unital maps, and induce richer structure. The understanding 2 that equilibrating channels single out thermal operations was established then.

I'm so happy that this piece is finally out there for all the quantum thermodynamics and information theory enthusiasts not to mention, it's great fun to work with friends whom Ialways learn so much from. Thanks Seokhyung, @perp-waterfall.bsky.social, Paul Boes, @arrr.de for the fun journey ❤️

We learnt that thermal operations strike a sweet spot between encompassing non-Markovian effects in the form of robust catalysis, therefore favouring it over subsets of the theory. At the same, any other superset of the theory would require a non-equilibrium environment!

Years down the road, Jeongrak and I were puzzling over whether robust catalytic advantage exists for thermal operations, only to realize the conceptual key was hidden in those early, unpublished results all along
arxiv.org/abs/2412.06900

This project was a loooong time in the making. It started with Henrik, Paul, and Seok Hyung studying how catalytic channels enter the hierarchy of unital maps, and induce a richer structure. The understanding that equilibrating channels single out thermal operations was established then.

Here is the paper: enjoy!!!
scirate.com/arxiv/2507.1...

I’m so happy that this piece is finally out there for all the quantum thermodynamics and information theory enthusiasts 😉 not to mention, it's great fun to work with friends whom I always learn so much from. Thanks Seokhyung, @perp-waterfall.bsky.social , Paul Boes, @arrr.de for the fun journey ❤️

Years down the road, Jeongrak and I were puzzling over whether robust catalytic advantage exists for thermal operations, only to realize the conceptual key was hidden in those early, unpublished results all along

arxiv.org/abs/2412.06900

This project was a loooong time in the making. It started with Henrik, Paul, and Seok Hyung studying how catalytic channels enter the hierarchy of unital maps, and induce a richer structure. The understanding that equilibrating channels single out thermal operations was established then.