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We illustrate how geometric gauge forces and topological phase effects emerge in quantum systems without employing assumptions that rely on adiabaticity. We show how geometric magnetism may be harnessed to engineer novel quantum devices…

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The theory of quantum thermodynamics investigates how the concepts of heat, work, and temperature can be carried over to the quantum realm, where fluctuations and randomness are fundamentally unavoidable. Of particular practical relevance…

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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

The efficiency of microscopic heat engines in a thermally heterogenous environment is considered. We show that, as a consequence of the recently discovered entropic anomaly, quasi-static engines, whose efficiency is maximal in a fluid at…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-12 Stefano Bo , Antonio Celani

Bekenstein-Hawking Black hole thermodynamics should be corrected to incorporate quantum gravitational effects. Generalized Uncertainty Principle(GUP) provides a perturbational framework to perform such modifications. In this paper we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Kourosh Nozari , S. Hamid Mehdipour

It is possible to extract work from a quantum-mechanical system whose dynamics is governed by a time-dependent cyclic Hamiltonian. An energy bath is required to operate such a quantum engine in place of the heat bath used to run a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. M. Bender , D. C. Brody , B. K. Meister

The rise of quantum information science has opened up a new venue for applications of the geometric phase (GP), as well as triggered new insights into its physical, mathematical, and conceptual nature. Here, we review this development by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-08 Erik Sjöqvist

We study the real-time dynamics of quantum models with long-range interactions coupled to a heat-bath within the closed-time path-integral formalism. We show that quantum fluctuations depress the transition temperature. In the subcritical…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 Leticia F. Cugliandolo , Gustavo Lozano

The laws of thermodynamics strongly restrict the performance of thermal machines. Standard thermodynamics, initially developed for uncorrelated macroscopic systems, does not hold for microscopic systems correlated with their environments.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Milton Aguilar , Eric Lutz

We study the real time dynamics of a quantum system with potential barrier coupled to a heat-bath environment. Employing the path integral approach an evolution equation for the time dependent density matrix is derived. The time evolution…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Joachim Ankerhold , Hermann Grabert , Gert-Ludwig Ingold

Thermodynamic geometry provides a physically transparent framework to describe thermodynamic processes in meso- and micro-scale systems that are driven by slow variations of external control parameters. Focusing on periodic driving for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-14 Joshua Eglinton , Tuomas Pyharanta , Keiji Saito , Kay Brandner

This study explores the thermodynamic and geometric properties of phantom BTZ black holes within a noncommutative spacetime framework, where noncommutativity is implemented through Lorentzian smearing of mass and charge distributions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu

In this paper, we consider a model of two-level quantum heat engine to investigate the explicit analytic expression for the thermodynamics quantities in different condition under the finite-time operation. In this engine, the working…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-07-05 Yigermal Bassie , Tibebe Birhanu , Yoseph Abebe , Admasu Abawari

We present results concerning aspects of quantum thermodynamics under the background of non-Hermitian quantum mechanics for the dynamics of a quantum harmonic oscillator. Since a better control over the parameters in quantum thermodynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Jonas F. G. Santos , Fabricio S. Luiz

The fundamentals of a quantum heat engine are derived from first principles. The study is based on the equation of motion of a minimum set of operators which is then used to define the state of the system. The relation between the quantum…

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We study the impact of cooperative many-body effects on the operation of periodically-driven quantum thermal machines, particularly heat engines and refrigerators. In suitable geometries, $N$ two-level atoms can exchange energy with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-27 Wolfgang Niedenzu , Gershon Kurizki

The effects of the generalized uncertainty principle (GUP) on the low-energy stationary states of a particle moving in a cavity with no sharp boundaries are determined by means of the perturbation expansion in the framework of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2015-06-23 K. Sailer , Z. Peli , S. Nagy

We formulate a geometric framework for quasistatic thermodynamics in open quantum systems by parameterizing the dynamics on a control manifold. In the quasistatic limit, the system follows a manifold of stationary states, and the work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Eric R. Bittner

A fluctuation theorem for the nonequilibrium entropy production in quantum phase space is derived, which enables the consistent thermodynamic description of arbitrary quantum systems, open and closed. The new treatment naturally generalizes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-08-13 Sebastian Deffner