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Abstract Reservoir engineering is an important tool for quantum information science and quantum thermodynamics since it allows for preparing and/or protecting special quantum states of single or multipartite systems or to investigate…

We investigate the thermodynamics and fluctuations of a finite-time quantum Otto engine alternatively driven by a hot squeezed and a cold thermal reservoir. We show that reservoir squeezing significantly enhances the performance by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Yang Xiao , Dehua Liu , Jizhou He , Wu-Ming Liu , L. -L. Yan , Jianhui Wang

In this article we review the thermoelectric properties of three terminal devices with Coulomb coupled quantum dots (QDs) as observed in recent experiments [1,2]. The system we consider consists of two Coulomb-blockade QDs one of which can…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-11-17 Holger Thierschmann , Rafael Sánchez , Björn Sothmann , Hartmut Buhmann , Laurens W. Molenkamp

The interplay between non-Hermiticity and topology opens an exciting avenue for engineering novel topological matter with unprecedented properties. While previous studies have mainly focused on one-dimensional systems or Chern insulators,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-05-12 Junpeng Hou , Ya-Jie Wu , Chuanwei Zhang

Recent theory and experiments have showcased how to harness quantum mechanics to assemble heat/information engines with efficiencies that surpass the classical Carnot limit. So far, this has required atomic engines that are driven by…

Driven by various physical origins, the interesting reentrant phenomena in quantum Hall effect (QHE), quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) and non-Hermitian systems have been discussed recently. Here, we present that the reentrant phenomena…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-16 Xiaoyu Cheng , Xiaohong Zheng , Jun Chen , Liantuan Xiao , Suotang Jia , Lei Zhang

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

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs), also known as quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators, are excellent candidates for coherent spin transport related applications because the edge states of 2D TIs are robust against nonmagnetic…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-19 Wei Luo , Hongjun Xiang

Quantum spin Hall (QSH) insulators are two-dimensional electronic materials that have a bulk band gap like an ordinary insulator but have topologically protected pairs of edge modes of opposite chiralities. To date, experimental studies…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Kaifei Kang , Bowen Shen , Yichen Qiu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Jie Shan , Kin Fai Mak

The fractional quantum Hall (FQH) state is a topological state of matter resulting from the many-body effect of interacting electrons and is of vast interest in fundamental physics. The experimental observation of topological surface states…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2012-05-15 Dong-Xia Qu , Y. S. Hor , R. J. Cava

Quantum simulators have recently enabled experimental observations of quantum many-body systems' internal thermalization. Often, the global energy and particle number are conserved, and the system is prepared with a well-defined particle…

The charge and spin-dependent thermoelectric responses are investigated on a single-helical molecule possessing a collinear antiferromagnetic spin arrangement with zero net magnetization in the presence of a transverse electric field. Both…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Kallol Mondal , Sudin Ganguly , Santanu K. Maiti

Recently the Quantum Spin Hall effect (QSH) was theoretically predicted and experimentally realized in a quantum wells based on binary semiconductor HgTe[1-3]. QSH state and topological insulators are the new states of quantum matter…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-08 S. Chadov , X. -L. Qi , J Kübler , G. H. Fecher , C. Felser , S. -C. Zhang

Topologically nontrivial band structure of a material may give rise to special states that are confined to the material's boundary and protected against disorder and scattering. Quantum spin Hall effect (QSHE) is a paradigmatic example of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-09 Luis Alberto Razo López , Pierre Wulles , Geoffroy J. Aubry , Sergey E. Skipetrov , Fabrice Mortessagne

Heat transport in the quantum Hall regime is investigated using micron-scale heaters and thermometers positioned along the edge of a millimeter-scale two dimensional electron system (2DES). The heaters rely on localized current injection…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-08-28 G. Granger , J. P. Eisenstein , J. L. Reno

Low-dimensional electronic systems have traditionally been obtained by electrostatically confining electrons, either in heterostructures or in intrinsically nanoscale materials such as single molecules, nanowires, and graphene. Recently, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-12 A. F. Young , J. D. Sanchez-Yamagishi , B. Hunt , S. H. Choi , K. Watanabe , T. Taniguchi , R. C. Ashoori , P. Jarillo-Herrero

Quantum heat engines (QHE) are thermal machines where the working substance is quantum. In the extreme case the working medium can be a single particle or a few level quantum system. The study of QHE has shown a remarkable similarity with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-07 Raam Uzdin , Amikam Levy , Ronnie Kosloff

We examine a quantum absorption refrigerator that comprises three qubits, each of which is connected with a separate spin-star environment. The refrigerator exhibits the feature of transient cooling, i.e., lowering of the temperature of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-18 Sukrut Mondkar , Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Ujjwal Sen

The nonlinear thermoelectric effect is a key factor for realising unconventional thermoelectric phenomena, such as heat rectification and power generation using thermal fluctuations. Recent theoretical advances have indicated that chiral…

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