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We investigate the operation of a qubit as a quantum thermal device within the repeated interaction framework, allowing for strong system-bath coupling and finite interaction times. We analyze two minimal models: an alternating-coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-23 Gabrielle Barsky-Giles , Alessandro Prositto , Matthew Gerry , Dvira Segal

We design a quantum thermal device that can simultaneously and dynamically cool multiple target qubits. Using a setup with three bosonic heat baths, we propose an engineering of interaction Hamiltonian using operators on different subspaces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jithin G. Krishnan , Chandrima B. Pushpan , Amit Kumar Pal

This article presents a comparative analysis of quantum Otto and Stirling engines using atom-photon interactions as the working substance. Two models are considered: a two-level Jaynes-Cummings system and a four-level atomic system confined…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-10 Indrajith. V. S

We propose a quantum heat engine composed of two superconducting transmission line resonators interacting with each other via an optomechanical-like coupling. One resonator is periodically excited by a thermal pump. The incoherently driven…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-27 Ali Ü. C. Hardal , Nur Aslan , C. M. Wilson , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We investigate the optimal performance of quantum Otto engine and refrigeration cycles of a time-dependent harmonic oscillator under a trade-off figure of merit for both adiabatic and nonadiabatic (sudden-switch) frequency modulations. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-24 Kirandeep Kaur , Shishram Rebari , Varinder Singh

We investigate the performance of a quantum thermal machine operating in finite time based on shortcut-to-adiabaticity techniques. We compute efficiency and power for a quantum harmonic Otto engine by taking the energetic cost of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Obinna Abah , Eric Lutz

Quantum-dot systems serve as nanoscale heat engines exploiting thermal fluctuations to perform a useful task. Here, we investigate a multi-terminal triple-dot system, operating as a refrigerator that extracts heat from a cold electronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Juliette Monsel , Matteo Acciai , Didrik Palmqvist , Nicolas Chiabrando , Rafael Sánchez , Janine Splettstoesser

Particle-particle correlations, characterized by Glauber's second-order correlation function,play an important role in the understanding of various phenomena in radio and optical astronomy, quantum and atom optics, particle physics,…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-06-18 R. S. Watson , K. V. Kheruntsyan

We consider a quantum Otto cycle with an interacting Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature. We present a procedure to evolve this system in time in three spatial dimensions, in which closed (adiabatic) strokes are described by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-17 Julian Amette Estrada , Franco Mayo , Augusto J. Roncaglia , Pablo D. Mininni

Continuous particle exchange thermal machines require no time-dependent driving, can be realised in solid-state electronic devices, and miniaturised to nanometre scale. Quantum dots, providing a narrow energy filter and allowing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Eugenia Pyurbeeva , Ronnie Kosloff

We study a minimal quantum Otto heat engine, where the working medium consists of an interacting few-body system in a harmonic trap. This allows us to consider the interaction strength as an additional tunable parameter during the work…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Mohamed Boubakour , Thomás Fogarty , Thomas Busch

We study an Otto heat machine whose working substance is a single two-level system interacting with a cold thermal reservoir and with a squeezed hot thermal reservoir. By adjusting the squeezing or the adiabaticity parameter (the…

We study a quantum harmonic Otto engine under a hot squeezed thermal reservoir with asymmetry between the two adiabatic branches introduced by considering different speeds of the driving protocols. In the first configuration, the driving…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-27 Monika , Kirandeep Kaur , Varinder Singh , Shishram Rebari

We study the effect of Kerr nonlinearity in quantum thermal machines having a Kerr-nonlinear oscillator as working substance and operating under the ideal quantum Otto cycle. We first investigate the efficiency of a Kerr-nonlinear heat…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-27 Udson C. Mendes , José S. Sales , Norton G. de Almeida

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

A quantum Otto heat engine is studied with multilevel identical particles trapped in one-dimensional box potential as working substance. The symmetrical wave function for Bosons and the anti-symmetrical wave function for Fermions are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-27 X. L. Huang , D. Y. Guo , S. L. Wu , X. X. Yi

We present a quantum heat engine model utilizing a dual spin-pair architecture, wherein an Otto-like cycle is implemented using a single heat bath. The conventional cold bath is replaced by a measurement protocol, enabling engine operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 S R Rathnakaran , Asoka Biswas

The unavoidable irreversible losses of power in a heat engine are found to be of quantum origin. Following thermodynamic tradition a model quantum heat engine operating by the Otto cycle is analyzed. The working medium of the model is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yair Rezek , Ronnie Kosloff

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

We consider the toy model of quantum Diesel cycle without temperature constructed from non-interacting fermions, which are trapped in a one-dimensional box. The work and energy are extracted from the cycle are by changing the expectation…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-26 Satnam Singh , Shish Ram