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Our main finding is that the energy width of the wave packet, which can be narrow or broad with respect to the system energies, plays a crucial role in identifying energy exchanges due to collisions as heat or work. While heat is generated by narrow wave packets effusing with thermal momenta, work is generated by fast and broad wave packets. We compare our results with models of repeated-interaction, which despite being inspired by quantum collisions, still present shortcomings when used as a basis for a thermodynamic theory. We show how these difficulties are circumvented by a proper application of quantum scattering theory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jury Members<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Chair:<\/i> Prof. Dr. Alexandre Tkatchenko, Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Vice-Chair:<\/i> Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmidt, Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Supervisor (Member):<\/i> Prof. Dr. Massimiliano Esposito, Universit\u00e9 du Luxembourg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Member:<\/i> Benjamin Huard, Ecole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure de Lyon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><i>Member:<\/i> Raam Uzdin, Hebrew University of Jerusalem<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thermodynamics of Quantum Collisions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":7338,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_image_focal_point":[],"show_featured_caption":false,"ulux_newsletter_groups":"","uluxPostTitle":"","uluxPrePostTitle":"","_trash_the_other_posts":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"event_start_date":"2021-12-13 15:30:00","event_end_date":"2021-12-13 18:00:00","event_speaker_name":"Talk by Samuel LOURENCO JACOB, supervisor Professor Massimiliano Esposito","event_speaker_link":"","event_is_online":false,"event_location":"Campus Limpertsberg, Room BSC 0.03","event_street":"","event_location_link":"","event_zip_code":"1511","event_city":"Luxembourg","event_country":"LU"},"events-topic":[315],"events-type":[327],"organisation":[80,30,29],"authorship":[33],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.3 (Yoast SEO v22.3) - 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