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We propose and analyze the theoretical model for a two-stroke quantum heat engine with one of the heat baths replaced by a non-selective quantum measurement. We show that the engine's invariant reference state depends on whether the cycle…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-21 M. Sahnawaz Alam , B. Prasanna Venkatesh

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

Generalized measurements may allow the control of its back-action on the quantum system by interpolating from a very weak to strong projective action. Such a measurement can fuel a quantum heat engine or extract work depending on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-05 V. F. Lisboa , P. R. Dieguez , J. R. Guimarães , J. F. G. Santos , R. M. Serra

In this study, we explore a relativistic quantum Otto heat engine with a qutrit as the working substance interacting with a quantum scalar field in curved spacetime. Unlike qubits, which extract work by simply expanding or shrinking a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-01 Tomoya Hirotani , Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura

Properties of the coupled particles with spin 3/2 (quartits) in a constant magnetic field, as a working substance in the quantum Otto cycle of the heat engine, are considered. It is shown that this system as a converter of heat energy in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-29 E. A. Ivanchenko

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

We examine the role of diagnostic quantum measurements on the work statistics of a finite-time quantum Otto heat engine operated in the steady-state. We consider three pointer-based measurement schemes that differ in the number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-29 Rahul Shastri , B. Prasanna Venkatesh

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

Invasiveness of quantum measurements is a genuinely quantum mechanical feature that is not necessarily detrimental: Here we show how quantum measurements can be used to fuel a cooling engine. We illustrate quantum measurement cooling (QMC)…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-02-27 Lorenzo Buffoni , Andrea Solfanelli , Paola Verrucchi , Alessandro Cuccoli , Michele Campisi

We explore the performance of three- and two-stroke heat engines with a qutrit working substance in charging two-level quantum batteries. We first classify the heat engines into two groups depending on their working methods. The first type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Debarupa Saha , Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Kornikar Sen , Ujjwal Sen

We use the spin-boson model to describe the dynamics of a two-level atom interacting with Fabry-P\'erot cavity modes. We solve the Schr\"odinger equation for the system-bath model without the Born-Markov approximation to derive the…

We examine a quantum heat engine with an interacting many-body working medium consisting of the long-range Kitaev chain to explore the role of long-range interactions in the performance of the quantum engine. By analytically studying two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-22 Qian Wang

In this work, we introduce a three-stroke quantum engine with a single-qubit work-ing substance whose cycle consists of two strokes arise due to performing two distinctgeneral quantum measurements and it is completed by thermalization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-30 Naghi Behzadi

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

We put forward four schemes of coupled-qubit quantum Otto machine, a generalization of the single-qubit quantum Otto machine, based on work and heat transfer between an internal system consisting of a coupled pair of qubits and an external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-12 Jingyi Gao , Naomichi Hatano

We introduce quantum heat engines that perform quantum Otto cycle and the quantum Stirling cycle by using a coupled pair of harmonic oscillator as its working substance. In the quantum regime, different working medium is considered for the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 Tanmoy Pandit , Pritam Chattopadhyay , Goutam Paul

Measurement-based quantum heat engines have attracted significant interest as alternatives to conventional thermal engines, as they replace the hot thermal reservoir with quantum measurements, thereby offering greater controllability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Arunabha Das , Sayan Mondal , Debarupa Saha , Ujjwal Sen

Quantum heat engines are often discussed under the weak coupling assumption that the interaction between the system and the reservoirs is negligible. Although this setup is easier to analyze, this assumption cannot be justified on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Mao Kaneyasu , Yoshihiko Hasegawa

We show that coupled two level systems like qubits studied in quantum information can be used as a thermodynamic machine. At least three qubits or spins are necessary and arranged in a chain. The system is interfaced between two split baths…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Henrich , M. Michel , G. Mahler

We present a measurement-based quantum thermal machine that extracts work from the back-action of generalized quantum measurements whose working medium is a coupled two-level quantum system. Specifically, we derive universal optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Chinonso Onah , Obinna Uzoh , Obinna Abah