Anharmonicity can enhance the performance of quantum refrigerators
Quantum Physics
2020-06-23 v3
Abstract
We explore a thermodynamical effect of anharmonicity in quantum mechanical oscillators. We show that small quartic perturbations to the oscillator potential lead to an enhancement of performance of quantum refrigerators for both the Otto and Stirling cycles. A similar nonlinearity driven enhancement of performance is also observed for an analogous spin-qubit model of quantum refrigerators. We further demonstrate the robustness of improvement of the coefficient of performance versus the energy cost for creating anharmonicity. It is shown that the anharmonicity driven improvement in performance is a generic effect at the quantum level for the experimentally realizable Otto refrigerator.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1902.10616,
title = {Anharmonicity can enhance the performance of quantum refrigerators},
author = {Sourav Karar and Shounak Datta and Sibasish Ghosh and A. S. Majumdar},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.10616},
year = {2020}
}
Comments
10 pages, 5 figures