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Quantum heat engines have undergone extensive studies over the last two decades. Simultaneously, the studies of the applications of stochastic resetting in various fields are on the rise. We explore the effect of stochastic resetting on the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-08 Ashutosh Kumar , Sourabh Lahiri , Trilochan Bagarti , Subhashish Banerjee

In this paper we investigate the relationship between the efficiency of a cyclic quantum heat engine with the Hilbert space dimension of the thermal baths. By means of a general inequality, we show that the Carnot efficiency can be obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-02 M. Hamed Mohammady , Alessandro Romito

The second law of thermodynamics constrains that the efficiency of heat engines, classical or quantum, cannot be greater than the universal Carnot efficiency. We discover another bound for the efficiency of a quantum Otto heat engine…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-08-07 Jong-Min Park , Sangyun Lee , Hyun-Myung Chun , Jae Dong Noh

Low-temperature-differential (LTD) Stirling engines are heat engines that can operate autonomously with a slight temperature difference between low-temperature heat reservoirs and are thus expected to contribute to a sustainable society. A…

Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems · Physics 2023-11-15 Songhao Yin , Hiroshi Kori , Yuki Izumida

The optimal efficiency of quantum (or classical) heat engines whose heat baths are $n$-particle systems is given by the information geometry and the strong large deviation. We give the optimal work extraction process as a concrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-19 Hiroyasu Tajima , Masahito Hayashi

We studied the efficiency of two different schemes for a magnetically driven quantum heat engine, by considering as the working substance a single nonrelativistic particle trapped in a cylindrical potential well, in the presence of an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-14 Enrique Muñoz , Francisco J. Peña

To investigate the impact of fractional parameter on the thermodynamic behaviors of quantum systems, we incorporate fractional quantum mechanics into the cycle of a quantum Stirling heat engine and examine the influence of fractional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-19 Shihao Xia , Youlin Wang , Minglong Lv , Jincan Chen , Shanhe Su

Based on a quantum thermodynamic protocol for shortcut to isothermality that smoothly modify the system-reservoir interaction can significantly speed up an isothermal process while keeping the overall dissipation constant [Phys. Rev. X. 10,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-15 Yanchao Zhang , Shuang Wang

Quantum absorption refrigerator (QAR) autonomously extracts heat from a cold bath and dumps into a hot bath by exploiting the input heat from a higher temperature reservoir. QARs typically require three-body interactions. We propose and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-05 M. Tahir Naseem , Avijit Misra , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We consider the efficiency at maximum power of a quantum Otto engine, which uses a spin or a harmonic system as its working substance and works between two heat reservoirs at constant temperatures $T_h$ and $T_c$ $ (<T_h)$. Although the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-22 Feilong Wu , Jizhou He , Yongli Ma , Jianhui Wang

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

Quantum thermal machines offer promising platforms for exploring the fundamental limits of thermodynamics at the microscopic scale. The previous study demonstrated that the incorporation of a catalyst can significantly enhance the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-17 Cong Fu , Ousi Pan , Zhiqiang Fan , Yushun Tang , Shanhe Su , Youhui Lin , Jincan Chen

We present a mechanism for efficiency increase in quantum heat engines containing internal energy levels that do not couple to the external work sink. The gain is achieved by using these levels to channel heat in a direction opposite to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-25 Thiago R. de Oliveira , Daniel Jonathan

We derive a bound on the efficiency of thermal engines that can be sharper than Carnot's limit. It is a function of statistical correlations between the engine internal state and Hamiltonian, can be saturated even in finite-time cycles, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Anna Gabetti , Fabrizio Dolcini , Davide Girolami

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 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 theoretically explore the finite-time performance of a quantum thermochemical engine using a harmonically trapped 1D Bose gas in the quasicondensate regime as the working fluid. Operating on an Otto cycle, the engine's unitary work…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-05-27 Vijit V. Nautiyal

The thermoelectric properties of a three terminal quantum spin Hall (QSH) sample are examined. Inherent helicity of the QSH sample helps to generate a large charge power efficiently. Along with charge the system can be designed to work as a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-13 Arjun Mani , Colin Benjamin

A procedure to find optimal regimes for quantum thermal engines (QTMs) is described and demonstrated. The QTMs are modelled as the periodically-driven non-equilibrium steady states of open quantum systems, whose dynamics is approximated in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-10 Alberto Castro

As a quantum device, a quantum heat engine (QHE) is described by a Hermitian Hamiltonian.However, since it is an open system, reservoirs have to be imposed phenomenologically without any description in the context of quantum mechanics. A…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-03 S. Lin , Z. Song