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We theoretically identify the noise-induced coherent contribution to the ergotropy of a four-level quantum heat engine coupled to a unimodal quantum cavity. We utilize a protocol where the passive state's quasiprobabilities can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-10 Manash Jyoti Sarmah , Himangshu Prabal Goswami

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 present a realistic implementation of a quantum engine powered by a phaseonium gas of coherently prepared three-level atoms -- where quantum coherence acts as a thermodynamic resource. Using a collision model framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Federico Amato , Gerardo Adesso , G. Massimo Palma , Salvatore Lorenzo , Rosario Lo Franco

Classical thermodynamics is built with the concept of equilibrium states. However, it is less clear how equilibrium thermodynamics emerges through the dynamics that follows the principle of quantum mechanics. In this paper, we develop a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-18 Md. Manirul Ali , Wei-Ming Huang , Wei-Min Zhang

We present a detailed study of a three-level quantum heat engine operating at maximum efficient power function, a trade-off objective function defined by the product of the efficiency and power output of the engine. First, for near…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-11-11 Varinder Singh

In classical Markov jump processes, current fluctuations can only be reduced at the cost of increased dissipation. To explore how quantum effects influence this trade-off, we analyze the uncertainty of steady-state currents in Markovian…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-07-09 Paul Menczel , Eetu Loisa , Kay Brandner , Christian Flindt

Understanding the thermodynamic role of measurement in quantum mechanical systems is a burgeoning field of study. In this article, we study a double quantum dot (DQD) connected to two macroscopic fermionic thermal reservoirs. We assume that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-07 Laetitia P. Bettmann , Michael J. Kewming , John Goold

Quantum thermodynamics has emerged as a central field for understanding how energy conversion processes occur in microscopic systems. In these systems, effects such as coherence, entanglement, and non-Markovianity play key roles. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-02 J. M. Z. Choquehuanca

Heat engines constitute the major building blocks of modern technologies. However, conventional heat engines with higher power yield lesser efficiency and vice versa and respect various power-efficiency trade-off relations. This is also…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-04 Mohit Lal Bera , Sergi Julià-Farré , Maciej Lewenstein , Manabendra Nath Bera

Differences between the thermodynamic behavior of the three-level amplifier (a quantum heat engine based on a thermally pumped laser) and the classical Carnot cycle are usually attributed to the essentially quantum or discrete nature of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-10 T. E. Humphrey , H. Linke

When a reciprocating heat engine is started it eventually settles to a stable mode of operation. The approach of a first principle quantum heat engine toward this stable limit cycle is studied. The engine is based on a working medium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Tova Feldmann , Ronnie Kosloff

The laws of thermodynamics strongly restrict the performance of thermal machines. Standard thermodynamics, initially developed for uncorrelated macroscopic systems, does not hold for microscopic systems correlated with their environments.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-13 Milton Aguilar , Eric Lutz

We reveal several distinct regimes of the relaxation dynamics of a small quantum system coupled to an environment within the plane of the dissipation strength and the reservoir temperature. This is achieved by discriminating between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 D. M. Kennes , O. Kashuba , V. Meden

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

Established heat engines in quantum regime can be modeled with various quantum systems as working substances. For example, in the non-relativistic case, we can model the heat engine using infinite potential well as a working substance to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-09 Pritam Chattopadhyay , Goutam Paul

The trade-off between large power output, high efficiency and small fluctuations in the operation of heat engines has recently received interest in the context of thermodynamic uncertainty relations (TURs). Here we provide a concrete…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-04 Sara Kheradsoud , Nastaran Dashti , Maciej Misiorny , Patrick P. Potts , Janine Splettstoesser , Peter Samuelsson

The majority vote model is one of the simplest opinion systems yielding distinct phase transitions and has garnered significant interest in recent years. However, its original formulation is not, in general, thermodynamically consistent,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-16 Felipe Hawthorne , Mário J. de Oliveira , Pedro E. Harunari , Carlos E. Fiore

The derivation of general performance benchmarks is important in the design of highly optimized heat engines and refrigerators. To obtain them, one may model phenomenologically the leading sources of irreversibility ending up with results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Luis A. Correa , José P. Palao , Gerardo Adesso , Daniel Alonso

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

We identify and interpret the possible quantum thermal machine regimes with a transverse-field Ising model as the working substance. In general, understanding the emergence of such regimes in a many-body quantum system is challenging due to…