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In this work, we present a new framework for a relativistic quantum analouge of the classical Otto engine. Considering a single qubit as the working substance, we analyse its interaction with a massless quantum scalar field while undergoing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-29 Rudra Prosad Sarkar , Arnab Mukherjee , Sunandan Gangopadhyay

We introduce a quantum heat engine performing an Otto cycle by using the thermal properties of the quantum vacuum. Since Hawking and Unruh, it has been established that the vacuum space, either near a black hole or for an accelerated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 Enrique Arias , Thiago R. de Oliveira , M. S. Sarandy

Uniformly accelerated frame mimics a thermal bath whose temperature is proportional to the proper acceleration. Using this phenomenon we give a detailed construction of an Otto cycle between two energy eigenstates of a system, consists of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Dipankar Barman , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

In the framework of open quantum systems, we study the dynamics of an accelerated quantum battery (QB), modeled as an Unruh-DeWitt detector interacting with a real massless scalar quantum field. The QB is driven by an external classical…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2025-09-03 Xiaobao Liu , Zehua Tian , Jiliang Jing

The one-dimensional extended Hubbard model (EHM) in the atomic limit has recently been found to exhibit a curious thermal pseudo-transition behavior, which closely resembles first and second-order thermal phase transitions. This phenomenon,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-18 Onofre Rojas , Moises Rojas , S. M. de Souza

We investigate the behaviour of quantum heat engines, in which a qubit is put through the quantum equivalent of the Otto cycle and the heat reservoirs are due to the Unruh effect. The qubit is described by an Unruh--DeWitt detector model…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 Finnian Gray , Robert B. Mann

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

Relativistic quantum systems exhibit unique features not present at lower energies, such as the existence of both particles and antiparticles, and restrictions placed on the system dynamics due to the light cone. In order to understand what…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-16 Nathan M. Myers , Obinna Abah , Sebastian Deffner

We consider a quantum Otto engine using an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector model which interacts with a quantum scalar field in curved spacetime. We express a generic condition for extracting positive work in terms of the effective…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-11-15 Kensuke Gallock-Yoshimura , Vaishant Thakur , Robert B. Mann

We propose a relativistic quantum Otto cycle between an entangled state of two qubits and their composite excited (or ground) state whose efficiency can be greater than the usual single qubit quantum Otto engine. The hot and cold reservoirs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Gaurang Ramakant Kane , Bibhas Ranjan Majhi

We study, in the framework of open systems, the entanglement generation of two independent uniformly accelerated atoms in interaction with the vacuum fluctuations of massless scalar fields subjected to a reflecting plane boundary. We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jialin Zhang , Hongwei Yu

We investigate the Unruh quantum Otto heat engine with level degeneracy. An effectively two level system, where the ground state is non-degenerate and the excited state is $n$-fold degenerate, is acting as the working substance, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-16 Hao Xu , Man-Hong Yung

In this paper we study a quantum Otto thermal machine where the working substance is composed of N identical qubits coupled to a single mode of a bosonic field, where the atoms and the field interact with a reservoir, as described by the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 He-Guang Xu , Jiasen Jin , G. D. M. Neto , Norton G. de Almeida

We investigate an Otto thermodynamic cycle with a qubit Unruh-DeWitt detector as the working medium, coupled to a massless, conformally coupled scalar quantum field in the Hartle-Hawking vacuum in a (2+1)-dimensional BTZ black hole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-03 Dimitris Moustos , Obinna Abah

We apply a simple sudden quench approximation for the unitary work strokes of a quantum Otto engine in order to provide a general analysis of its performance, applicable to arbitrary quantum models with two-body interactions. This work…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-17 R. S. Watson , K. V. Kheruntsyan

We revisit the mathematics of exactly solvable Unruh-DeWitt detector models, interacting with massless scalar fields under instantaneous interactions, to construct a relativistic quantum Otto heat engine. By deriving the conditions under…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-26 Nikos K. Kollas , Dimitris Moustos

We estimate the transition rates of a uniformly accelerated Unruh-DeWitt detector coupled to a quantum field with reflecting conditions on a boundary plane (a "mirror"). We find that these are essentially indistinguishable from the usual…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-08-27 Carlo Rovelli , Matteo Smerlak

We investigate a three-level maser quantum thermal machine in which the system-reservoir interaction is modeled via Unruh-DeWitt type coupling, with one or both reservoirs undergoing relativistic motion relative to the working medium.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-21 Tanmoy Pandit , Pritam Chattopadhyay , Kaustav Chatterjee , Varinder Singh

We construct a quantum critical Otto engine that is powered by finite temperature baths. We show that the work output of the engine shows universal power law behavior that depends on the critical exponents of the working medium, as well as…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 Revathy B S , Victor Mukherjee , Uma Divakaran

We propose a four level quantum heat engine in Otto cycle with a working substance of two spins subject to an external magnetic field and coupled to each other by a one-axis twisting spin squeezing nonlinear interaction. We calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Ferdi Altintas , Ali Ü. C. Hardal , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu
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