  This book provides an introduction to the emerging field of quantum
thermodynamics, with particular focus on its relation to quantum information
and its implications for quantum computers and next generation quantum
technologies. The text, aimed at graduate level physics students with a working
knowledge of quantum mechanics and statistical physics, provides a brief
overview of the development of classical thermodynamics and its quantum
formulation in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 then explores typical thermodynamic
settings, such as cycles and work extraction protocols, when the working
material is genuinely quantum. Finally, Chapter 3 explores the thermodynamics
of quantum information processing and introduces the reader to some more
state-of-the-art topics in this exciting and rapidly developing research field.
