Quantum steampunk: Quantum information, thermodynamics, their intersection, and applications thereof across physics

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Combining quantum information theory with thermodynamics unites 21st-century technology with 19th-century principles.

• The union elucidates the spread of information, the flow of time, and the leveraging of energy.
• This thesis contributes to the theory of quantum thermodynamics, particularly to quantum-information-theoretic thermodynamics.
• The thesis also contains applications of the theory, wielded as a toolkit, across physics.