“Margenau-Hill Quasiprobability of Work as the Only Consistent Definition in Quantum Thermodynamics”

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38115414

The Margenau-Hill quasiprobability of work is the only definition that satisfies certain physically reasonable requirements and can be used to accurately describe stochastic work in quantum thermodynamics even in the presence of initial quantum coherence.