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Quantum many-body systems present substantial technical challenges from both analytical and numerical perspectives. Despite these difficulties, some progress has been made, including studies of interacting atomic gases and interacting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-08 Anass Hminat , Abdallah Slaoui , Brahim Amghar , Rachid Ahl Laamara

Preparation of low-energy quantum many-body states has a wide range of applications in quantum information processing and condensed matter physics. Quantum cooling algorithms offer a promising alternative to other methods based, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Daniel Molpeceres , Sirui Lu , J. Ignacio Cirac , Barbara Kraus

We present a fully quantum dynamical treatment of a quantum heat engine and its baths based on the Hierarchy of Pure States (HOPS), an exact and general method for open quantum system dynamics. We show how the change of the bath energy and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-19 Valentin Boettcher , Richard Hartmann , Konstantin Beyer , Walter T. Strunz

We study the performance of a quantum Otto heat engine with two spins coupled by a Heisenberg interaction, taking into account not only the mean values of work and efficiency but also their fluctuations. We first show that, for this system,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-12 Maron F. Anka , Thiago R. de Oliveira , Daniel Jonathan

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…

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

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

This work introduces an approach rooted in quantum thermodynamics to enhance sampling efficiency in quantum machine learning (QML). We propose conceptualizing quantum supervised learning as a thermodynamic cooling process. Building on this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Nayeli A. Rodríguez-Briones , Daniel K. Park

Standard heat machines (engine, heat pump, refrigerator) are composed of a system ("working fluid") coupled to at least two equilibrium baths at different temperatures and periodically driven by an external device (piston or rotor) called…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-11-26 Rober Alicki , David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky

Quantum heat engines provide attractive means in quantum thermodynamics for studying the fundamentals of the flow of heat and work. Previous experimental implementations of heat engines operating at the level of a few excitation quanta have…

We demonstrate how to incorporate a catalyst to enhance the performance of a heat engine. Specifically, we analyze efficiency in one of the simplest engines models, which operates in only two strokes and comprises of a pair of two-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-25 Marcin Łobejko , Tanmoy Biswas , Paweł Mazurek , Michał Horodecki

A process has been proposed to increase the efficiency of an ideal Otto cycle via a quantum heat engine that has no cooler reservoir. We show that such a process is not feasible.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-06-14 Elias P. Gyftopoulos , Michael R. von Spakovsky

The quantum Otto cycle serves as a bridge between the macroscopic world of heat engines and the quantum regime of thermal devices composed from a single element. We compile recent studies of the quantum Otto cycle with a harmonic oscillator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Ronnie Kosloff , Yair Rezek

Algorithmic cooling is a method that employs thermalization to increase qubit purification level, namely it reduces the qubit-system's entropy. We utilized gradient ascent pulse engineering (GRAPE), an optimal control algorithm, to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-20 Yosi Atia , Yuval Elias , Tal Mor , Yossi Weinstein

We consider a finite-time quantum Otto cycle with single and two-spin-$1/2$ systems as its working medium. In order to mimic adiabatic dynamics at a finite-time, we employ a shortcut-to-adiabaticity technique and evaluate the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 Barış Çakmak , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

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

At present, there is a worldwide effort to use cold atoms to simulate strongly correlated quantum many-body systems. It is hoped that these "simulations" will provide solutions to many unsolved problems. However, the relevant energy scales…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2009-12-01 Tin-Lun Ho , Qi Zhou

We study a quantum Otto engine embedding a working substance composed by a two-level system interacting with a harmonic mode. The physical properties of the substance are described by a generalized quantum Rabi model arising in…

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
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