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We study a quantum Otto engine at finite time, where the working substance is composed of a two-level system interacting with a harmonic oscillator, described by the quantum Rabi model. We obtain the limit cycle and calculate the total work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-02-23 G. Alvarado Barrios , F. Albarrán-Arriagada , F. J. Peña , E. Solano , J. C. Retamal

We study the quantum correlations embedded in open quantum Rabi systems. Specifically, we study how the quantum correlation depends on the coupling strength, number of qubits, and reservoir temperatures. We numerically calculate the quantum…

We propose a multilevel quantum heat engine with a working medium described by a generalized Rabi model which consists of a two-level system coupled to a single mode bosonic field. The model is constructed to be a continuum limit of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-05 Ferdi Altintas , Ali Ü. C. Hardal , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We investigate the quantum thermodynamic cycle of a quantum heat engine carrying out an Otto thermodynamic cycle. We use the thermal properties of a moving heat bath with relativistic velocity with respect to the cold bath. As a working…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Nikolaos Papadatos

We investigate heat engines whose working substance is made of two coupled qubits performing a generalised Otto cycle by varying their applied magnetic field or their interaction strength during the compression and expansion strokes. During…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Adam Hewgill , Alessandro Ferraro , Gabriele De Chiara

We study a quantum heat engine at strong coupling between the system and the thermal reservoirs. Exploiting a collective coordinate mapping, we incorporate system-reservoir correlations into a consistent thermodynamic analysis, thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-30 David Newman , Florian Mintert , Ahsan Nazir

We study a driven harmonic oscillator operating an Otto cycle between two thermal baths of finite size. By making extensive use of the tools of Gaussian quantum mechanics, we directly simulate the dynamics of the engine as a whole, without…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-19 Alejandro Pozas-Kerstjens , Eric G. Brown , Karen V. Hovhannisyan

We propose a four level quantum heat engine in Otto cycle with a working substance of two spins subject to an external magnetic field and coupled to each other by a one-axis twisting spin squeezing nonlinear interaction. We calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Ferdi Altintas , Ali Ü. C. Hardal , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

In this study, we explore a relativistic quantum Otto heat engine with a qutrit as the working substance interacting with a quantum scalar field in curved spacetime. Unlike qubits, which extract work by simply expanding or shrinking a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tomoya Hirotani , Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura

Quantum heat machines, encompassing heat engines, refrigerators, heaters, and accelerators, represent the forefront of quantum thermodynamics, offering a novel paradigm for converting heat energy into useful mechanical work. Leveraging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 He-Guang Xu , Jiasen Jin , Norton G. de Almeida , G. D. de Moraes Neto

A quantum Otto heat engine is studied with multilevel identical particles trapped in one-dimensional box potential as working substance. The symmetrical wave function for Bosons and the anti-symmetrical wave function for Fermions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 X. L. Huang , D. Y. Guo , S. L. Wu , X. X. Yi

We study a minimal quantum Otto heat engine, where the working medium consists of an interacting few-body system in a harmonic trap. This allows us to consider the interaction strength as an additional tunable parameter during the work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Mohamed Boubakour , Thomás Fogarty , Thomas Busch

We study a chain of interacting individual quantum systems connected to heat baths at different temperatures on both ends. Starting with the two-system case, we thoroughly investigate the conditions for heat rectification (asymmetric heat…

Recent studies have investigated the role of entanglement in the operation of a two-qubit system as a heat engine, showing that work can be extracted from a single heat bath without direct heat dissipation between the two-qubit system and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Hachem Tarif , Abdallah Slaoui , Rachid Ahl Laamara

We theoretically prose and investigate a photo-Otto engine that is working with a single-mode radiation field inside an optical cavity and alternatively driven by a hot and a cold reservoir, where the hot reservoir is realized by sending…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-10-23 Yang Xiao , Dehua Liu , Jizhou He , Yongli Ma , Zhaoqi Wu , Jianhui Wang

Algebraic methods for solving time dependent Hamiltonians are used to investigate the performance of quantum thermal machines. We investigate the thermodynamic properties of an engine formed by two coupled q-bits, performing an Otto cycle.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-27 A. C. Duriez , D. Martínez-Tibaduiza , A. Z. Khoury

Properties of the coupled particles with spin 3/2 (quartits) in a constant magnetic field, as a working substance in the quantum Otto cycle of the heat engine, are considered. It is shown that this system as a converter of heat energy in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 E. A. Ivanchenko

Particle-particle correlations, characterized by Glauber's second-order correlation function,play an important role in the understanding of various phenomena in radio and optical astronomy, quantum and atom optics, particle physics,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-18 R. S. Watson , K. V. Kheruntsyan

Allowing the order of quantum operations to exist in superposition is known to open new routes for thermodynamic tasks. We investigate a quantum heat engine where energy exchanges are driven by generalized measurements, and the sequence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-11 Vinicius F. Lisboa , Pedro R. Dieguez , Kyrylo Simonov , Roberto M. Serra

We study a quantum Otto engine operating on the basis of a helical spin- 1/2 multiferroic chain with strongly coupled magnetic and ferroelectric order parameters. The presence of a finite spin chirality in the working substance enables…

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