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Quantum-Enhanced Heat Engine Based on Superabsorption

Quantum Physics 2022-06-01 v2 Statistical Mechanics

Abstract

We propose a quantum-enhanced heat engine with entanglement. The key feature of our scheme is superabsorption, which facilitates enhanced energy absorption by entangled qubits. Whereas a conventional engine with NN separable qubits provides power with a scaling of P=Θ(N)P = \Theta (N), our engine uses superabsorption to provide power with a quantum scaling of P=Θ(N2)P = \Theta(N^2). This quantum heat engine also exhibits a scaling advantage over classical ones composed of NN-particle Langevin systems. Our work elucidates the quantum properties allowing for the enhancement of performance.

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@article{arxiv.2106.10813,
  title  = {Quantum-Enhanced Heat Engine Based on Superabsorption},
  author = {S. Kamimura and H. Hakoshima and Y. Matsuzaki and K. Yoshida and Y. Tokura},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.10813},
  year   = {2022}
}
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