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We study a quantum Otto cycle that uses a 2-qubit working substance whose Hamiltonian does not commute with itself at different times during unitary strokes. We investigate how the cycle responds to the loss of quantum adiabaticity when…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-03 Cleverson Cherubim , Thiago R. de Oliveira , Daniel Jonathan

When parameters are varied periodically, charge can be pumped through a mesoscopic conductor without applied bias. Here, we consider the inverse effect in which a transport current drives a periodic variation of an adiabatic degree of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-08-14 Raul Bustos-Marun , Gil Refael , Felix von Oppen

We introduce a cyclic quantum battery model, based on an interacting bipartite system, weakly coupled to a thermal bath. The working cycle of the battery consists of four strokes: system thermalization, disconnection of subsystems,…

A quantum model of a heat engine resembling the Otto cycle is employed to explore strategies to suppress frictional losses. These losses are caused by the inability of the engine's working medium to follow adiabatically the change in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tova Feldmann , Ronnie Kosloff

We explore the performance of three- and two-stroke heat engines with a qutrit working substance in charging two-level quantum batteries. We first classify the heat engines into two groups depending on their working methods. The first type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Debarupa Saha , Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Kornikar Sen , Ujjwal Sen

What are the resources that can be leveraged for a thermodynamic device to exhibit genuine quantum advantage? Typically, the answer to this question is sought in quantum correlations. In the present work, we show that quantum Otto engines…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sebastian Deffner

We investigate the performance of a quantum thermal machine operating in finite time based on shortcut-to-adiabaticity techniques. We compute efficiency and power for a quantum harmonic Otto engine by taking the energetic cost of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Obinna Abah , Eric Lutz

This study presents a comparative analysis of three quantum thermal engines utilizing a two-qubit Heisenberg XXZ chain as the working substance. A novel generalized quantum Otto cycle (GQOC) is introduced, featuring two distinct coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Zorar Ahmadi , Bashir Mojaveri

Adiabatic quantum computation has recently attracted attention in the physics and computer science communities, but its computational power was unknown. We describe an efficient adiabatic simulation of any given quantum algorithm, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-11-22 Dorit Aharonov , Wim van Dam , Julia Kempe , Zeph Landau , Seth Lloyd , Oded Regev

We investigate the energetic advantage of accelerating a quantum harmonic oscillator Otto engine by use of shortcuts to adiabaticity (for the expansion and compression strokes) and to equilibrium (for the hot isochore), by means of…

In a quantum Stirling heat engine, the heat exchanged with two thermal baths is partly utilized for performing work by redistributing the energy levels of the working substance. We analyze the thermodynamics of a quantum Stirling engine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-01 Debmalya Das , George Thomas , Andrew N. Jordan

Quantum friction, a quantum analog of classical friction, reduces the performance of quantum machines, such as heat engines, and makes them less energy efficient. We here report the experimental realization of an energy efficient quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-24 Waner Hou , Xingyu Zhao , Kamran Rehan , Yi Li , Yue Li , Eric Lutz , Yiheng Lin , Jiangfeng Du

We construct an example of heat engine whose efficiency at maximum power breaks down the previously derived bounds in the linear response regime. Such example takes a classical harmonic oscillator as the working substance undergoing a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-12-04 Marcus V. S. Bonança

In their work [J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 33, 4427 (2000)], Bender, Brody, and Meister have shown by employing a two-state model of a particle confined in the one-dimensional infinite potential well that it is possible to construct a…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-20 Sumiyoshi Abe

Analogue computers use continuous properties of physical system for modeling. In the paper is described possibility of modeling by analogue quantum computers for some model of data analysis. It is analogue associative memory and a formal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alexander Yu. Vlasov

We consider a photo--Carnot engine that consists of a single--mode radiation field in an optical cavity. One the heat reservoirs is made of a beam of thermally entangled pairs of two--level atoms that interact resonantly with the cavity. We…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-12 Raoul Dillenschneider , Eric Lutz

Real quantum heat engines lack the separation of time and length scales that is characteristic for classical engines. They must be understood as open quantum systems in non-equilibrium with time-controlled coupling to thermal reservoirs as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-09 Michael Wiedmann , Jürgen T. Stockburger , Joachim Ankerhold

A theoretical thermodynamic cycle more efficient than an infinite set of Carnot engines is presented. This result is unexpected from the point of view of classical thermodynamics.

General Physics · Physics 2009-01-06 Jose Belandria

We study the stochastic energetic exchanges in quantum heat engines. Due to microreversibility, these obey a fluctuation relation, called the heat engine fluctuation relation, which implies the Carnot bound: no machine can have an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-24 Michele Campisi , Jukka Pekola , Rosario Fazio

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