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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 investigate the quantum sensing performance of a dephasing qubit as a probe in Ohmic environments, characterized by the coupling strength $\eta$, the Ohmicity parameter $s$, and the cutoff frequency $\omega_c$ to be estimated. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Yuan Ji-Bing , Song Ya-Ju , Tang Shi-Qing , Wang Xin-Wen , Kuang Le-Man

We show that coupled two level systems like qubits studied in quantum information can be used as a thermodynamic machine. At least three qubits or spins are necessary and arranged in a chain. The system is interfaced between two split baths…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Henrich , M. Michel , G. Mahler

Inspired by path integral molecular dynamics, we build a spin model, in terms of spin coherent states, from which we can compute the quantum expectation values of a spin in a constant magnetic field, at finite temperature. This formulation…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-02 Thomas Nussle , Stam Nicolis , Joseph Barker

We show that the performance of critical quantum metrology protocols, counter-intuitively, can be enhanced by finite temperature. We consider a toy-model squeezing Hamiltonian, the Lipkin-Meshkov-Glick model and the paradigmatic Ising…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Laurin Ostermann , Karol Gietka

We develop a variational principle to determine the quantum controls and initial state which optimizes the quantum Fisher information, the quantity characterizing the precision in quantum metrology. When the set of available controls is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Jing Yang , Shengshi Pang , Zekai Chen , Andrew N. Jordan , Adolfo del Campo

We present a novel algorithm that allows one to obtain temperature dependent properties of quantum lattice models in the thermodynamic limit from exact diagonalization of small clusters. Our Numerical Linked Cluster (NLC) approach provides…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 Marcos Rigol , Tyler Bryant , Rajiv R. P. Singh

Decoherence often happens in the quantum world. We try to utilize quantum dephasing to build an optimal thermometry. By calculating the Cram$\acute{e}$r-Rao bound, we prove that the Ramsey measurement is the optimal way to measure the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-10 Dong Xie , Chunling Xu , Anmin Wang

We analyze the scaling of quantum Fisher information with the number of system particles in the limit of large number of particles, as a function of the number of parties interacting with each other, for encoding Hamiltonians having…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-05 Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Debarupa Saha , Ujjwal Sen

We present a quantum thermometric protocol for the estimation of multiple temperatures within the collisional model framework. Employing the formalism of multiparameter quantum metrology, we develop a systematic strategy to estimate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Srijon Ghosh , Sagnik Chakraborty , Rosario Lo Franco

Advances in machine learning have led to the development of foundation models for atomistic materials chemistry, enabling quantum-accurate descriptions of interatomic forces across chemically diverse compounds at reduced computational cost.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-11 Balázs Póta , Paramvir Ahlawat , Gábor Csányi , Michele Simoncelli

We propose a method for Hamiltonian engineering in quantum information processing architectures that requires no local control, but only relies on collective qubit rotations and field gradients. The technique achieves a spatial modulation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-06-12 Ashok Ajoy , Paola Cappellaro

The development of novel quantum many-body computational algorithms relies on robust benchmarking. However, generating such benchmarks is often hindered by the massive computational resources required for exact diagonalization or quantum…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-12-29 Wei-Bo He , Yun-Tong Yang , Hong-Gang Luo

We introduce a general framework for thermometry based on collisional models, where ancillas probe the temperature of the environment through an intermediary system. This allows for the generation of correlated ancillas even if they are…

The derivation of general performance benchmarks is important in the design of highly optimized heat engines and refrigerators. To obtain them, one may model phenomenologically the leading sources of irreversibility ending up with results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Luis A. Correa , José P. Palao , Gerardo Adesso , Daniel Alonso

As the minituarization of electronic devices, which are sensitive to temperature, grows apace, sensing of temperature with ever smaller probes is more important than ever. Genuinely quantum mechanical schemes of thermometry are thus…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-08 Arun Kumar Pati , Chiranjib Mukhopadhyay , Sagnik Chakraborty , Sibasish Ghosh

There are many factors that influence the design of quantum annealing processing units. Here we address the issue of improving quantum annealing processing unit designs from the point of view of the critical behavior of spin glasses. It has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-05 Helmut G. Katzgraber , M. A. Novotny

Potential realization of a quantum thermometer operating in the nanokelvin regime, formed by a few-fermionic mixture confined in a one-dimensional harmonic trap, is proposed. Thermal states of the system are studied theoretically from the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2018-06-22 Marcin Płodzień , Rafał Demkowicz-Dobrzański , Tomasz Sowiński

Gardner's analysis of the optimal storage capacity of neural networks is extended to study finite-temperature effects. The typical volume of the space of interactions is calculated for strongly-diluted networks as a function of the storage…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 G. M. Shimi , D. Kim , M. Y. Choi

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