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This study explores the thermodynamic and geometric properties of phantom BTZ black holes within a noncommutative spacetime framework, where noncommutativity is implemented through Lorentzian smearing of mass and charge distributions. The…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-02-11 B. Hamil , B. C. Lütfüoğlu

We study how a quantum heat engine based on a single trapped ion performs in finite time. The always-on thermal environment acts like the hot bath, while the motional degree of freedom of the ion plays the role of the effective cold bath.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-15 Suman Chand , Shubhrangshu Dasgupta , Asoka Biswas

We present a general unified approach for the study of quantum thermal machines, including both heat engines and refrigerators, operating under periodic adiabatic driving and in contact with thermal reservoirs kept at different…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-10-14 Bibek Bhandari , Pablo Terrén Alonso , Fabio Taddei , Felix von Oppen , Rosario Fazio , Liliana Arrachea

We investigate heat engines whose working substance is made of two coupled qubits performing a generalised Otto cycle by varying their applied magnetic field or their interaction strength during the compression and expansion strokes. During…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-09 Adam Hewgill , Alessandro Ferraro , Gabriele De Chiara

Thermodynamic Uncertainty Relations (TURs) set universal bounds linking current fluctuations to entropy production in nonequilibrium steady states. Their multidimensional generalization (MTUR) introduces matrix inequalities connecting…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Sergi Vidal , Alba Mayor-Fernandez , Rosa Lopez

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

The study of quantum thermodynamics is key to the development of quantum thermal machines. In contrast to most of the previous proposals based on discrete strokes, here we consider a working substance that is permanently coupled to two or…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-09 Heather Leitch , Nicolò Piccione , Bruno Bellomo , Gabriele De Chiara

Thermodynamic geometry provides a physically transparent framework to describe thermodynamic processes in meso- and micro-scale systems that are driven by slow variations of external control parameters. Focusing on periodic driving for…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2023-04-14 Joshua Eglinton , Tuomas Pyharanta , Keiji Saito , Kay Brandner

Quantum thermal transistor is a microscopic thermodynamical device that can modulate and amplify heat current through two terminals by the weak heat current at the third terminal. Here we study the common environmental effects on a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-04 Yu-qiang Liu , Deng-hui Yu , Chang-shui Yu

Single-qubit thermometry presents the simplest tool to measure the temperature of thermal baths with reduced invasivity. At thermal equilibrium, the temperature uncertainty is linked to the heat capacity of the qubit, however the best…

A quantum-controlled device may produce a scenario in which two general quantum operations can be performed in such a way that it is not possible to associate a definite order for the operations application. Such an indefinite causal order…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-21 Pedro R. Dieguez , Vinicius F. Lisboa , Roberto M. Serra

We propose a scheme for a quantum thermal machine made by atoms interacting with a single non-equilibrium electromagnetic field. The field is produced by a simple configuration of macroscopic objects held at thermal equilibrium at different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Bruno Leggio , Bruno Bellomo , Mauro Antezza

Quantum thermodynamics aims to explore quantum features to enhance energy conversion beyond classical limits. While significant progress has been made, the understanding of caloric potentials in quantum systems remains incomplete. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Clebson Cruz , J. S. Amaral , Mario Reis

External driving of bath temperatures with a phase difference of a nonequilibrium quantum engine leads to the emergence of geometric effects on the thermodynamics. In this work, we modulate the amplitude of the external driving protocols by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-09-14 Sajal Kumar Giri , Himangshu Prabal Goswami

The performance of quantum heat engines is generally based on the analysis of a single cycle. We challenge this approach by showing that the total work performed by a quantum engine need not be proportional to the number of cycles.…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-02-08 Gentaro Watanabe , B. Prasanna Venkatesh , Peter Talkner , Adolfo del Campo

Measurement-based quantum computation utilizes an initial entangled resource state and proceeds with subsequent single-qubit measurements. It is implicitly assumed that the interactions between qubits can be switched off so that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-08-08 Ying Li , Daniel E. Browne , Leong Chuan Kwek , Robert Raussendorf , Tzu-Chieh Wei

We study how much the efficiency of a solar cell as a quantum heat engine could be enhanced by quantum coherence. In contrast to the conventional approach that a quantum heat engine is in thermal equilibrium with both hot and cold…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-28 Sangchul Oh

We study the performance of a quantum Otto cycle using a harmonic work medium and undergoing collisional dynamics with finite-size reservoirs. We span the dynamical regimes of the work strokes from strongly non-adiabatic to quasi-static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Marco Pezzutto , Mauro Paternostro , Yasser Omar

In this study, we advance the understanding of non-equilibrium systems by deriving thermodynamic relations for a heat engine operating under an exponentially decreasing temperature profile. Such thermal configurations closely mimic…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-04-01 Mesfin Taye

We consider thermal machines powered by locally equilibrium reservoirs that share classical or quantum correlations. The reservoirs are modelled by the so-called collisional model or repeated interactions model. In our framework, two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-28 Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Antezza