Dynamical Casimir effect and minimal temperature in quantum thermodynamics
Quantum Physics
2015-02-19 v1 Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
We study the fundamental limitations of cooling to absolute zero for a qubit, interacting with a single mode of the electromagnetic field. Our results show that the dynamical Casimir effect, which is unavoidable in any finite-time thermodynamic cycle, forbids the attainability of the absolute zero of temperature, even in the limit of an infinite number of cycles.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1412.4819,
title = {Dynamical Casimir effect and minimal temperature in quantum thermodynamics},
author = {G. Benenti and G. Strini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.4819},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
5 pages, 4 figures