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We investigate the performance of a quantum thermal machine operating in finite time based on shortcut-to-adiabaticity techniques. We compute efficiency and power for a quantum harmonic Otto engine by taking the energetic cost of the…
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There is growing interest in lowering the energy consumption of computation. Energy transparency is a concept that makes a program's energy consumption visible from software to hardware through the different system layers. Such transparency…
The growing demand for data center capacity, driven by the growth of high-performance computing, cloud computing, and especially artificial intelligence, has led to a sharp increase in data center energy consumption. To improve energy…
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