2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/17040We treat a quantum mechanical system with certain general properties which are expected to be common in macroscopic quantum systems. Starting from a PURE initial state (which may not describe an equilibrium) in which energy is mildly concentrated at a single value, we consider a time evolution determined by a time-dependent Hamiltonian as a model of an adiabatic operation in thermodynamics. We take a family of operations with the same procedure and various ``waiting times.'' Then the Minimum Work Principle is rigorously proved for almost all choices of the waiting time.8 pages, LaTeX, new references added in the revised versionStatistical MechanicsThe second law of Thermodynamics as a theorem in quantum mechanicstext