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Environmental-induced work extraction

Quantum Physics 2023-01-03 v1 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

A measurement can extract work from an entangled, e.g., two-mode system. Here, we inquire the extracted work when no intellectual creature, like an ancilla/daemon, is present. When the monitoring is carried out by the environmental modes, that is when no measurement-apparatus is present, the measurement-basis becomes the coherent state. This implies a Gaussian measurement with a fixed strength λ=1\lambda=1. For two-mode Gaussian states, extracted work is already independent from the measurement outcome. After the strength is also fixed, this makes nature assign a particular amount of work to a given entanglement degree. Extracted work becomes the entanglement-degree times the entire thermal energy at low temperatures -- e.g., room temperature for optical modes. Environment, nature itself, converts entanglement to an ordered, macroscopic, directional~(kinetic) energy from a disordered, microscopic, randomized thermal energy. And the converted amount is solely determined by the entanglement.

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@article{arxiv.2301.00574,
  title  = {Environmental-induced work extraction},
  author = {Rasim Volga Ovali and Shakir Ullah and Mehmet Günay and Mehmet Emre Tasgin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.00574},
  year   = {2023}
}

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