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We propose a quantum heat transformer (QHT), a quantum thermodynamic device that modulates temperature gradients between two thermal junctions in quantum systems. Functionally, the QHT is analogous to classical absorption heat transformers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Arghya Maity , Paranjoy Chaki , Ahana Ghoshal , Ujjwal Sen

We present a measurement-based quantum thermal machine that extracts work from the back-action of generalized quantum measurements whose working medium is a coupled two-level quantum system. Specifically, we derive universal optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Chinonso Onah , Obinna Uzoh , Obinna Abah

Heat engines constitute the major building blocks of modern technologies. However, conventional heat engines with higher power yield lesser efficiency and vice versa and respect various power-efficiency trade-off relations. This is also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Mohit Lal Bera , Sergi Julià-Farré , Maciej Lewenstein , Manabendra Nath Bera

We introduce a primary thermometer which measures the temperature of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in the sub-nK regime. We show, using quantum Fisher information, that the precision of our technique improves the state-of-the-art in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-23 Carlos Sabín , Angela White , Lucia Hackermuller , Ivette Fuentes

Temperature rise of qubits due to heating is a critical issue in large-scale quantum computers based on quantum-dot (QD) arrays. This leads to shorter coherence times, induced readout errors, and increased charge noise. Here, we propose a…

We show that one can construct a quantum absorption refrigerator that provides refrigeration only in the transient regime, by using three interacting qubits, each of which is also interacting with local heat-bath. The machine either does…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Sreetama Das , Avijit Misra , Amit Kumar Pal , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

Preparation of quantum thermal states of many-body systems is a key computational challenge for quantum processors, with applications in physics, chemistry, and classical optimization. We provide a simple and efficient algorithm for thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 Jerome Lloyd , Dmitry A. Abanin

We propose a scheme for a single-atom quantum heat engine based on ultra-cold atom technologies. Building on the high degree of control typical of cold atom systems, we demonstrate that three paradigmatic heat engines -- Carnot, Otto and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Giovanni Barontini , Mauro Paternostro

Quantum thermodynamics supplies a consistent description of quantum heat engines and refrigerators up to the level of a single few level system coupled to the environment. Once the environment is split into three;a hot, cold and work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-17 Ronnie Kosloff , Amikam Levy

Quantitative thermal imaging has the potential of reliable temperature measurement across an entire field-of-view. This non-invasive technique has applications in aerospace, manufacturing and process control. However, robust temperature…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-04-27 Jamie McMillan , Aaron Whittam , Maciej Rokosz , Rob Simpson

Estimating the temperature of a cold quantum system is difficult. Usually, one measures a well-understood thermal state and uses that prior knowledge to infer its temperature. In contrast, we introduce a method of thermometry that assumes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-07 T. H. Johnson , F. Cosco , M. T. Mitchison , D. Jaksch , S. R. Clark

We demonstrate that a thermal transistor can be made up with a quantum system of 3 interacting subsystems , coupled to a thermal reservoir each. This thermal transistor is analogous to an electronic bipolar one with the ability to control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Karl Joulain , Jérémie Drevillon , Younès Ezzahri , Jose Ordonez-Miranda

Quantum thermal devices which can manage heat as their electronic analogues for the electronic currents have attracted increasing attention. Here a three-terminal quantum thermal device is designed by three coupling qubits interacting with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Bao-qing Guo , Tong Liu , Chang-shui Yu

Recent advances in applying thermodynamic ideas to quantum systems have raised the novel prospect of using non-thermal, non-classical sources of energy, of purely quantum origin, like quantum statistics, to extract mechanical work in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 H S Mani , Ramadas N , V V Sreedhar

We address a particular instance where open quantum systems may be used as quantum probes for an emergent property of a complex system, as the temperature of a thermal bath. The inherent fragility of the quantum probes against decoherence…

Unveiling the impact in thermodynamics of the phenomena specific to quantum mechanics is a crucial step to identify fundamental costs for quantum operations and quantum advantages in heat engines. We propose a two-reservoir setup to detect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Cyril Elouard , George Thomas , Olivier Maillet , Jukka P. Pekola , Andrew N. Jordan

Theoretical treatments of periodically-driven quantum thermal machines (PD-QTMs) are largely focused on the limit-cycle stage of operation characterized by a periodic state of the system. Yet, this regime is not immediately accessible for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Junjie Liu , Kenneth A. Jung , Dvira Segal

This work introduces an approach rooted in quantum thermodynamics to enhance sampling efficiency in quantum machine learning (QML). We propose conceptualizing quantum supervised learning as a thermodynamic cooling process. Building on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones , Daniel K. Park

Quantum technology promises revolutionizing applications in information processing, communications, sensing, and modelling. However, efficient on-demand cooling of the functional quantum degrees of freedom remains a major challenge in many…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Kuan Yen Tan , Matti Partanen , Russell E. Lake , Joonas Govenius , Shumpei Masuda , Mikko Möttönen

We address the dephasing dynamics of the quantum Fisher information (QFI) for the process of quantum thermometry with probes coupled to squeezed thermal baths via the nondemolition interaction. We also calculate the upper bound for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-05 H. Rangani Jahromi