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We present a quantum Otto engine model consisting of two isochoric and two adiabatic strokes, where the adiabatic expansion or compression is realized by adiabatically changing the shape of the potential. Here we show that such an adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-15 Kai Li , Yang Xiao , Jizhou He , Jianhui Wang

We investigate the optimal performance of quantum Otto engine and refrigeration cycles of a time-dependent harmonic oscillator under a trade-off figure of merit for both adiabatic and nonadiabatic (sudden-switch) frequency modulations. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Kirandeep Kaur , Shishram Rebari , Varinder Singh

We investigate the performance of a quantum Otto refrigerator operating in finite time and exploiting local counterdiabatic techniques. We evaluate its coefficient of performance and cooling power when the working medium consists a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Obinna Abah , Mauro Paternostro , Eric Lutz

We use fast periodic control to realize finite-time Otto cycles exhibiting quantum advantage. Such periodic modulation of the working medium - bath interaction Hamiltonian during the thermalization strokes can give rise to non-Markovian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-17 Arpan Das , Victor Mukherjee

We derive the probability distribution of the efficiency of a quantum Otto engine. We explicitly compute the quantum efficiency statistics for an analytically solvable two-level engine. We analyze the occurrence of values of the stochastic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-16 Tobias Denzler , Eric Lutz

The derivation of general performance benchmarks is important in the design of highly optimized heat engines and refrigerators. To obtain them, one may model phenomenologically the leading sources of irreversibility ending up with results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Luis A. Correa , José P. Palao , Gerardo Adesso , Daniel Alonso

We theoretically explore the finite-time performance of a quantum thermochemical engine using a harmonically trapped 1D Bose gas in the quasicondensate regime as the working fluid. Operating on an Otto cycle, the engine's unitary work…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-27 Vijit V. Nautiyal

We have studied the performance of a measurement-based quantum Otto engine (QOE) in a working system of two spins coupled by Heisenberg anisotropic interaction. A non-selective quantum measurement fuels the engine. We have calculated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Chayan Purkait , Asoka Biswas

We analyse a quantum Otto refrigerator based on a superconducting qubit coupled to two LC-resonators each including a resistor acting as a reservoir. We find various operation regimes: nearly adiabatic (low driving frequency), ideal Otto…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 B. Karimi , J. P. Pekola

We consider the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum Otto engine, which uses a spin or a harmonic system as its working substance and works between two heat reservoirs at constant temperatures $T_h$ and $T_c$ $ (<T_h)$. Although the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Feilong Wu , Jizhou He , Yongli Ma , Jianhui Wang

We consider a finite-time quantum Otto cycle with single and two-spin-$1/2$ systems as its working medium. In order to mimic adiabatic dynamics at a finite-time, we employ a shortcut-to-adiabaticity technique and evaluate the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 Barış Çakmak , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

While the emergent field of quantum thermodynamics has the potential to impact energy science, the performance of thermal machines is often classical. We ask whether quantum effects can boost the performance of a thermal machine to reach…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-27 Juan Jaramillo , Mathieu Beau , Adolfo del Campo

Quantum thermodynamic relationships in emerging nanodevices are significant but often complex to deal with. The application of machine learning in quantum thermodynamics has provided a new perspective. This study employs reinforcement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-06 Gao-xiang Deng , Haoqiang Ai , Bingcheng Wang , Wei Shao , Yu Liu , Zheng Cui

A process has been proposed to increase the efficiency of an ideal Otto cycle via a quantum heat engine that has no cooler reservoir. We show that such a process is not feasible.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-14 Elias P. Gyftopoulos , Michael R. von Spakovsky

We analyze the efficiency of the quantum Otto cycle applied to a superconducting cavity. We consider its description in terms of a full quantum scalar field in a one-dimensional cavity with a time dependent boundary condition that can be…

We propose a quantum Otto cycle based on the properties of a two-level system in a realistic out-of-thermal-equilibrium electromagnetic field acting as its sole reservoir. This steady configuration is produced without the need of active…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Bruno Leggio , Mauro Antezza

The optimal efficiency of quantum (or classical) heat engines whose heat baths are $n$-particle systems is given by the information geometry and the strong large deviation. We give the optimal work extraction process as a concrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Hiroyasu Tajima , Masahito Hayashi

The optimal control of open quantum systems is a challenging task but has a key role in improving existing quantum information processing technologies. We introduce a general framework based on Reinforcement Learning to discover optimal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-19 Paolo Andrea Erdman , Frank Noé

We consider a quantum Otto-type heat engine constructed in an optomechanical system with which the cavity is chosen as the working substance. The cavity can effectively be coupled with hot thermal baths in nonequilibrium steady-states via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Zhen-Yang Peng , Ying-Dan Wang

Quantum thermal machines make use of non-classical thermodynamic resources, one of which is interactions between elements of the quantum working medium. In this paper, we examine the performance of a quasi-static quantum Otto engine based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Venu Mehta , Ramandeep S. Johal