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Refrigeration with Indefinite Causal Orders on a Cloud Quantum Computer

Quantum Physics 2021-11-29 v2 Statistical Mechanics Applied Physics

Abstract

We demonstrate non-classical cooling on the IBMq cloud quantum computer. We implement a recently proposed refrigeration protocol which relies upon indefinite causal order for its quantum advantage. We use quantum channels which, when used in a well-defined order, are useless for refrigeration. We are able to use them for refrigeration, however, by applying them in a superposition of different orders. Our protocol is by nature relatively robust to noise, and so can be implemented on this noisy platform. As far as the authors are aware, this is the first example of cloud quantum refrigeration.

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@article{arxiv.2107.12413,
  title  = {Refrigeration with Indefinite Causal Orders on a Cloud Quantum Computer},
  author = {David Felce and Vlatko Vedral and Felix Tennie},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.12413},
  year   = {2021}
}

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5 pages, 3 figures. Comments welcome via email

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