The authors generalize the previous concept of thermomajorization by introducing the concept of continuous thermomajorization, and show that this partial order of energy distributions provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a thermalization process generated by a Markovian master equation. The results may pave the way to an algorithmic approach to the development of quantum thermodynamic protocols.
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