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We study the heat transport due to phonons in nanomechanical structures using a phase space representation of non-equilibrium Green's functions. This representation accounts for the atomic degrees of freedom making it particularly suited…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Marcone I. Sena-Junior , Leandro R. F. Lima , Caio H. Lewenkopf

The understanding of heat transport in nonequilibrium thermodynamics is an important research frontier, which is crucial for implementing novel thermodynamic devices, such as heat engines and refrigerators. The convection, conduction, and…

Optics · Physics 2020-10-28 Cheng Yang , Xinrui Wei , Jiteng Sheng , Haibin Wu

We analyze quantum state-transfer optimization within hybrid open systems, from a "noisy" (write-in) qubit to its "quiet" counterpart (storage qubit). Intriguing interplay is revealed between our ability to avoid bath-induced errors that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 B. M. Escher , G. Bensky , J. Clausen , G. Kurizki , L. Davidovich

Although known for negatively impacting the operation of superconducting qubits, thermal baths are shown to exert qubit control in a positive way, provided they are properly engineered. We demonstrate an experimental method to engineer the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-20 Ziyang You , Wenhui Huang , Libo Zhang , Song Liu , Youpeng Zhong , Yibo Gao , Hou Ian

Thermodynamics in quantum circuits aims to find improved functionalities of thermal machines, highlight fundamental phenomena peculiar to quantum nature in thermodynamics, and point out limitations in quantum information processing due to…

Heat transfer in quantum systems is a current topic of interest due to emerging quantum technologies that attempt to miniaturize engines and examine fundamental aspects of thermodynamics. In this work, we consider heat transfer between two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Marlon Brenes , Jakub Garwoła , Dvira Segal

We consider open quantum systems weakly coupled to thermal reservoirs and subjected to quantum feedback operations triggered with or without delay by monitored quantum jumps. We establish a thermodynamic description of such system and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-16 Philipp Strasberg , Gernot Schaller , Tobias Brandes , Massimiliano Esposito

Conventional continuous quantum heat engines with incoherent heat transfer perform poorly as they exploit two-body interactions between the system and hot or cold baths, thus having limited capability to outperform their classical…

We investigate the nonequilibrium quantum heat transfer in a triangle-coupled spin-boson system within a three-terminal setup. By including the nonequilibrium noninteracting blip approximation approach combined with the full counting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-16 Chen Wang , Xu-Min Chen , Ke-Wei Sun , Jie Ren

Quantum heat transfer through a generic superconducting set-up consisting of a tunable transmon qubit placed between resonators that are termined by thermal reservoirs is explored. Two types of architectures are considered, a sequential and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Meng Xu , J. T. Stockburger , J. Ankerhold

Quantum state transfer is crucial for quantum information processing and quantum computation. Here, we propose a hybrid optomechanical system capable of coupling a qubit, an optical mode and a mechanical oscillator. The displacement of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-28 Arindam Saha , Amarendra K. Sarma

We investigate nonequilibrium energy transfer in a single-site Bose-Hubbard model coupled to two thermal baths. By including a quantum kinetic equation combined with full counting statistics, we investigate the steady state energy flux and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Xu-Min Chen , Chen Wang , Ke-Wei Sun

We investigate the local thermal transport in a quantum trimer of harmonic oscillators connected to two thermal baths. The coupling between them are augmented by complex phases which leads to the quantum control of the local atypical heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-23 Gobinda Chakraborty , Subhadeep Chakraborty , Tanmoy Basu , Manas Mukherjee

We investigate the thermodynamics of a hybrid quantum device consisting of two qubits collectively interacting with a quantum rotor and coupled dissipatively to two equilibrium reservoirs at different temperatures. By modelling the dynamics…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Heather Leitch , Kenza Hammam , Gabriele De Chiara

We present a detailed theoretical analysis for a system of a superconducting flux qubit coupled to a transmission line resonator. The master equation, accounting incoherent processes for a weakly populated resonator, is analytically solved.…

Superconductivity · Physics 2010-12-30 A. N. Omelyanchouk , S. N. Shevchenko , Ya. S. Greenberg , O. Astafiev , E. Ilichev

We study the implementation of quantum state transfer protocols in phonon networks, where in analogy to optical networks, quantum information is transmitted through propagating phonons in extended mechanical resonator arrays or phonon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-08 S. J. M. Habraken , K. Stannigel , M. D. Lukin , P. Zoller , P. Rabl

We consider transport through a vibrating molecular quantum dot contacted to macroscopic leads acting as charge reservoirs. In the equilibrium and nonequilibrium regime, we study the formation of a polaron-like transient state at the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-06-04 T. Koch , H. Fehske , J. Loos

We provide a theoretical model for the non-equilibrium steady state heat flow through a quantum heat valve. The model is based on a master equation approach, where the partial secular approximation has been carefully performed in order to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-24 Antti Vaaranta , Marco Cattaneo , Paolo Muratore-Ginanneschi , Jukka Pekola

Quantum coherence provides a controllable thermodynamic resource that can raise or lower the effective temperature of a cavity mode, enabling efficiency tuning in quantum heat engines. Here, we derive analytic expressions for the effective…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-07 Hui Wang , Yusef Maleki , William J. Munro , Marlan O. Scully

In this work, we investigate the heat flow of two interacting quantum systems on the perspective of noncommutativity phase-space effects and show that by controlling the new constants introduced in the quantum theory, due to a deformed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Jonas F. G. Santos