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We show that one can construct a quantum absorption refrigerator that provides refrigeration only in the transient regime, by using three interacting qubits, each of which is also interacting with local heat-bath. The machine either does…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-15 Sreetama Das , Avijit Misra , Amit Kumar Pal , Aditi Sen De , Ujjwal Sen

In the task of unitarily cooling a quantum system with access to a larger quantum system, known as the machine or reservoir, how does the structure of the machine impact an agent's ability to cool and the complexity of their cooling…

A small quantum absorption refrigerator, consisting of three qubits, is discussed in the transient regime. We discuss time scales for coherent dynamics, damping, and approach to the steady state, and we study cooling and entanglement. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-03 Jonatan Bohr Brask , Nicolas Brunner

We design a quantum thermal device that can simultaneously and dynamically cool multiple target qubits. Using a setup with three bosonic heat baths, we propose an engineering of interaction Hamiltonian using operators on different subspaces…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-22 Jithin G. Krishnan , Chandrima B. Pushpan , Amit Kumar Pal

Quantum heat engines form an active field of research due to their potential applications. There are several phenomena that are unique to the quantum regime, some of which are known to give these engines an edge over their classical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-14 Ashutosh Kumar , Trilochan Bagarti , Sourabh Lahiri , Subhashish Banerjee

In this work, we study an autonomous refrigerator composed of three qubits [Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 130401 (2010)] operating with one of the reservoirs at negative temperatures, which has the purpose of cooling one of the qubits. We find the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-16 Gabriella G. Damas , Rogério J. de Assis , Norton G. de Almeida

We proposed a scheme to implement a self-contained quantum refrigerator system composed of three rf-SQUID qubits, or rather, flux-biased phase qubits. The three qubits play the roles of the target, the refrigerator and the heat engine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Yi-Xin Chen , Sheng-Wen Li

An autonomous quantum thermal machine comprising a trapped atom or ion placed inside an optical cavity is proposed and analysed. Such a machine can operate as a heat engine whose working medium is the quantised atomic motion, or as an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-22 Mark T. Mitchison , Marcus Huber , Javier Prior , Mischa P. Woods , Martin B. Plenio

Refrigeration limits are of fundamental and practical importance. We here show that quantum systems can be cooled below existing incoherent cooling bounds by employing coherent virtual qubits, even if the amount of coherence is incompletely…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-25 Rodolfo R. Soldati , Durga B. R. Dasari , Jörg Wrachtrup , Eric Lutz

We propose a three-qubit setup for the implementation of a variety of quantum thermal machines where all heat fluxes and work production can be controlled. An important configuration that can be designed is that of an absorption…

Preparation of low-energy quantum many-body states has a wide range of applications in quantum information processing and condensed matter physics. Quantum cooling algorithms offer a promising alternative to other methods based, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-22 Daniel Molpeceres , Sirui Lu , J. Ignacio Cirac , Barbara Kraus

Quantum speed limit, furnishing a lower bound on the required time for the evolution of a quantum system through the state space, imposes an ultimate natural limitation to the dynamics of physical devices. Quantum absorption refrigerators,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-06-13 Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Avijit Misra , Samyadeb Bhattacharya , Arun Kumar Pati

We derive cooling rate and coefficient of performance as well as their variances for a quantum Otto engine proceeding in finite-time cycle period. This machine consists of two driven strokes, where the system isolated from the heat…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-11 Guangqian Jiao , Shoubao Zhu , Jizhou He , Yongli Ma , Jianhui Wang

Recently, much emphasis has been given to genuinely quantum reservoirs generically called fermionic reservoirs. These reservoirs are characterized by having finite levels, as opposed to bosonic reservoirs, which have infinite levels that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-29 Gabriella G. Damas , Rogério J. de Assis , Norton G. de Almeida

The rate of temperature decrease of a cooled quantum bath is studied as its temperature is reduced to the absolute zero. The III-law of thermodynamics is then quantified dynamically by evaluating the characteristic exponent {\zeta} of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-04-17 Amikam Levy , Robert Alicki , Ronnie Kosloff

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

We consider a quantum self-contained fridge consisting of three qubits interacting with three separate heat reservoirs, respectively, and functioning without any external controls. Applying the methods of endoreversible thermodynamics, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-11-02 ILki Kim , Soumya S. Patnaik

A fundamental challenge in quantum thermodynamics is the exploration of inherent dimensional constraints in thermodynamic machines. In the context of two-level systems, the most compact refrigerator necessitates the involvement of three…

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

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