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This work continues the investigation in two recent papers on the quantum thermodynamics of spacetimes, 1) placing what was studied in [1] for thermal quantum fields in the context of early universe cosmology, and 2) extending the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2024-11-26 Jen-Tsung Hsiang , Yu-Cun Xie , Bei-Lok Hu

Simulation of a quantum many-body system at finite temperatures is crucially important but quite challenging. Here we present an experimentally feasible quantum algorithm assisted with continuous-variable for simulating quantum systems at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-14 Dan-Bo Zhang , Guo-Qing Zhang , Zheng-Yuan Xue , Shi-Liang Zhu , Z. D. Wang

There are both practical and foundational motivations to consider the thermodynamics of quantum systems at small scales. Here we address the issue of autonomous quantum thermal machines that are tailored to achieve some specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-08 Max F. Frenzel , David Jennings , Terry Rudolph

By reformulating the first law of thermodynamics in the fashion of quantum-mechanical operators on the parameter manifold, we propose a universal class of quantum heat engines (QHE) using the multi-level quantum system as the working…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 H. T. Quan , P. Zhang , C. P. Sun

Autonomous quantum thermal machines are particularly suited to understand how correlations between thermal baths, a load, and a thermal machine affect the overall thermodynamic functioning of the setup. Here, we show that by tuning the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-23 Gauthameshwar S. , Noufal Jaseem , Dario Poletti

Based on quantum thermodynamic processes, we make a quantum-mechanical (QM) extension of the typical heat engine cycles, such as the Carnot, Brayton, Otto, and Diesel cycles, etc. The temperature is not included in these QM engine cycles,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-02-05 Jianhui Wang , Yongli Ma , Jizhou He

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

We have developed a theoretical formalism to introduce temperature as a parameter into the framework of non-relativistic quantum mechanics using the laws of classical thermodynamics and the canonical ensemble scheme of statistical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-08 Ashkan Shekaari , Mahmoud Jafari

Quantum thermal machines offer promising platforms for exploring the fundamental limits of thermodynamics at the microscopic scale. The previous study demonstrated that the incorporation of a catalyst can significantly enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Cong Fu , Ousi Pan , Zhiqiang Fan , Yushun Tang , Shanhe Su , Youhui Lin , Jincan Chen

Quantum systems have an exponentially large degree of freedom in the number of particles and hence provide a rich dynamics that could not be simulated on conventional computers. Quantum reservoir computing is an approach to use such a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-11 Keisuke Fujii , Kohei Nakajima

Classical thermodynamics is unrivalled in its range of applications and relevance to everyday life. It enables a description of complex systems, made up of microscopic particles, in terms of a small number of macroscopic quantities, such as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-01-13 James Millen , André Xuereb

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 study a quantum system composed of three interacting qubits, each coupled to a different thermal reservoir. We show how to engineer it in order to build a quantum device that is analogous to an electronic bipolar transistor. We outline…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-22 Antonio Mandarino , Karl Joulain , Melisa Domínguez Gómez , Bruno Bellomo

Simulating quantum mechanics is known to be a difficult computational problem, especially when dealing with large systems. However, this difficulty may be overcome by using some controllable quantum system to study another less controllable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 I. M. Georgescu , S. Ashhab , Franco Nori

Thermodynamics was developed in the XIXth century to provide a physical description to engines and other macroscopic thermal machines. Since then, progress in nanotechnologies urged to extend these formalism, initially designed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-11 Cyril Elouard

Cooling quantum systems is arguably one of the most important thermodynamic tasks connected to modern quantum technologies and an interesting question from a foundational perspective. It is thus of no surprise that many different…

After a brief historical perspective, we introduce the key notions of work and heat for quantum systems, to then apply them to quantum engines operating on quantum Otto and Carnot cycles. The irreversible and dissipative character of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-01 Camille L Latune

A procedure to find optimal regimes for quantum thermal engines (QTMs) is described and demonstrated. The QTMs are modelled as the periodically-driven non-equilibrium steady states of open quantum systems, whose dynamics is approximated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Alberto Castro

In this paper, we investigate the use of variational quantum algorithms for simulating the thermodynamic properties of dinuclear metal complexes. Our study highlights the potential of quantum computing to transform advanced simulations and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-28 Ana Clara das Neves Silva , Clebson Cruz

In this article, we show that a quantum gas, a collection of massive, non-interacting, indistinguishable quantum particles can be realized as a thermodynamic machine as an artifact of energy quantization and hence bears no classical analog.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Saikat Sur , Arnab Ghosh