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We investigate a quantum thermal machine composed of two qubits coupled through a Raman-induced exchange interaction and driven by inhomogeneous transition frequencies. The system is analyzed within Carnot, Otto, and Stirling thermodynamic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-07 Alonso Alcalá , Charlie Oncebay , Onofre Rojas , Moises Rojas

Quantum heat engines are subjected to quantum fluctuations related to their discrete energy spectra. Such fluctuations question the reliable operation of quantum engines in the microscopic realm. We here realize an endoreversible quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 Quentin Bouton , Jens Nettersheim , Sabrina Burgardt , Daniel Adam , Eric Lutz , Artur Widera

We propose a trapped-ion platform to simulate a reconfigurable spin-spin Hamiltonian related to quantum thermodynamic processes. Starting from an experimental model describing two trapped-ions under slightly off-resonant first sideband…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 P. U. Medina González , I. Ramos Prieto , B. M. Rodríguez-Lara

We propose a recipe for demonstrating an autonomous quantum heat engine where the working fluid consists of a harmonic oscillator, the frequency of which is tuned by a driving mode. The working fluid is coupled two heat reservoirs each…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Miika Rasola , Mikko Möttönen

The quantum heat engines have drawn much attention due to miniaturization of devices recently. We study the dynamics of the quantum Otto heat engine using the driven-dissipative Schr\"{o}dinger equation. Starting from different initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 You-wei Fang , Yu-ting Zheng , Jun Chang

We introduce quantum heat engines that perform quantum Otto cycle and the quantum Stirling cycle by using a coupled pair of harmonic oscillator as its working substance. In the quantum regime, different working medium is considered for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Tanmoy Pandit , Pritam Chattopadhyay , Goutam Paul

We consider a quantum Otto-type heat engine constructed in an optomechanical system with which the cavity is chosen as the working substance. The cavity can effectively be coupled with hot thermal baths in nonequilibrium steady-states via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-25 Zhen-Yang Peng , Ying-Dan Wang

Quantum heat engines are often discussed under the weak coupling assumption that the interaction between the system and the reservoirs is negligible. Although this setup is easier to analyze, this assumption cannot be justified on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Mao Kaneyasu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

Certain solutions of Einstein's equations in anti-de Sitter spacetime can be engineered, using extended gravitational thermodynamics, to yield `holographic heat engines', devices that turn heat into useful mechanical work. On the other…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2020-02-19 Clifford V. Johnson

After many years of development of the basic tools, quantum simulation with ultracold atoms has now reached the level of maturity where it can be used to investigate complex quantum processes. Planning of new experiments and upgrading…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2020-07-13 Florian Schäfer , Takeshi Fukuhara , Seiji Sugawa , Yosuke Takasu , Yoshiro Takahashi

We argue that thermal machines can be understood from the perspective of `virtual qubits' at `virtual temperatures': The relevant way to view the two heat baths which drive a thermal machine is as a composite system. Virtual qubits are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-14 Nicolas Brunner , Noah Linden , Sandu Popescu , Paul Skrzypczyk

We propose to implement a quantized thermal machine based on a mixture of two atomic species. One atomic species implements the working medium and the other implements two (cold and hot) baths. We show that such a setup can be employed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-10 Wolfgang Niedenzu , Igor Mazets , Gershon Kurizki , Fred Jendrzejewski

Advances in experimental control of interacting quantum many-body systems with multiple tunable parameters-such as ultracold atomic gases and trapped ions-are driving rapid progress in quantum thermodynamics and enabling the design of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2026-04-16 Raymon S. Watson , Karen V. Kheruntsyan

We present the spin quantum Otto machine under different optimization criterion when function either as a heat engine or a refrigerator. We examine the optimal performance of the heat engine and refrigerator depending on their efficiency,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-13 Satnam Singh , Obinna Abah

We propose the use of a quantum thermal machine for low-temperature thermometry. A hot thermal reservoir coupled to the machine allows for simultaneously cooling the sample while determining its temperature without knowing the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Patrick P. Hofer , Jonatan Bohr Brask , Martí Perarnau-Llobet , Nicolas Brunner

We study the thermodynamic performance of a periodic quantum Otto cycle operating on the single-impurity Anderson model. Using a decomposition of the time-evolution generator based on the principle of minimal dissipation, combined with the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-01 Salvatore Gatto , Alessandra Colla , Heinz-Peter Breuer , Michael Thoss

We introduce a method to construct a quantum battery and a quantum Otto heat engine using a Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) center spin coupled to a mechanical oscillator in a highly detuned regime. By precisely controlling the NV spin, we enable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-13 Mohamed Hatifi , Anshuman Nayak , Jason Twamley

The finite-time isothermal process is fundamental in quantum thermodynamics yet complicated with combination of changing control parameters and the interaction with the thermal bath. Such complexity prevents the direct application of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jin-Fu Chen , Ying Li , Hui Dong

A quantum simulator based on ultracold optically trapped atoms for simulating the physics of atoms and molecules in ultrashort intense laser fields is introduced. The slowing down by about 13 orders of magnitude allows to watch in slow…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Simon Sala , Johann Förster , Alejandro Saenz

We present our recent studies on thermal field theories using quantum algorithms. We first delve into the representation of quantum fields via qubits on general digital quantum computers alongside the quantum algorithms employed to evaluate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-04 Iván Cuntín , Wenyang Qian , Bin Wu