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We consider measurement-based quantum computation using the state of a spin-lattice system in equilibrium with a thermal bath and free to evolve under its own Hamiltonian. Any single qubit measurements disturb the system from equilibrium…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-09-23 David Jennings , Andrzej Dragan , Sean D. Barrett , Stephen D. Bartlett , Terry Rudolph

We discuss a self-contained spin-boson model for a measurement-driven engine, in which a demon generates work from thermal excitations of a quantum spin via measurement and feedback control. Instead of granting it full direct access to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-03-11 Stella Seah , Stefan Nimmrichter , Valerio Scarani

A quantum-dot thermal transistor consisting of three Coulomb-coupled quantum dots coupled to respective electronic reservoirs by tunnel contacts is established. The heat flows through the collector and emitter can be controlled by the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-11-29 Yanchao Zhang , Zhimin Yang , Xin Zhang , Bihong Lin , Guoxing Lin , Jincan Chen

We compare the performance of continuous coherent feedback, implemented using an ideal single-qubit controller, to that of continuous measurement-based feedback for the task of controlling the state of a single qubit. Here the basic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Ashkan Balouchi , Kurt Jacobs

We study a quantum Szilard engine that is not powered by heat drawn from a thermal reservoir, but rather by projective measurements. The engine is constituted of a system $\mathcal{S}$, a weight $\mathcal{W}$, and a Maxwell demon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-17 M. Hamed Mohammady , Janet Anders

High-precision low-temperature thermometry is a challenge for experimental quantum physics and quantum sensing. Here we consider a thermometer modelled by a dynamically-controlled multilevel quantum probe in contact with a bath. Dynamical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-17 Victor Mukherjee , Analia Zwick , Arnab Ghosh , Xi Chen , Gershon Kurizki

A three-level system attached to three thermal baths is manipulated to be a microscopic thermal device integrating a valve, a refrigerator, an amplifier, and a thermometer in the quantum regime, via tuning the inner coupling strength of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yong Huangfu , Shifan Qi , Jun Jing

We propose a quantum heat transformer (QHT), a quantum thermodynamic device that modulates temperature gradients between two thermal junctions in quantum systems. Functionally, the QHT is analogous to classical absorption heat transformers…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-06 Arghya Maity , Paranjoy Chaki , Ahana Ghoshal , Ujjwal Sen

A Maxwell's demon is a device that gets information and trades it in for thermodynamic advantage, in apparent (but not actual) contradiction to the second law of thermodynamics. Quantum-mechanical versions of Maxwell's demon exhibit…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Seth Lloyd

Quantum heat engines (QHEs) have attracted long-standing scientific interest, especially inspired by considerations of the interplay between heat and work with the quantization of energy levels, quantum superposition, and entanglement.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-28 Tuomas Uusnäkki , Timm Mörstedt , Wallace Teixeira , Miika Rasola , Mikko Möttönen

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

The unavoidable interaction between thermal environments and quantum systems typically leads to the degradation of quantum coherence, which can be fought against by reservoir engineering. We propose the realization of a special mixture of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-11 Asghar Ullah , M. Tahir Naseem , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

A classical thermometer typically works by exchanging energy with the system being measured until it comes to equilibrium, at which point the readout is related to the final energy state of the thermometer. A recent paper noted that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-07 W. K. Tham , H. Ferretti , A. V. Sadashivan , A. M. Steinberg

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 measurement-based quantum computation (MBQC) on thermal states of the interacting cluster Hamiltonian containing interactions between the cluster stabilizers that undergoes thermal phase transitions. We show that the long-range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Keisuke Fujii , Yoshifumi Nakata , Masayuki Ohzeki , Mio Murao

We investigate the sensing performance of a single-qubit quantum thermometer within a non-Markovian dynamical framework. By employing an exactly numerical hierarchical equations of the motion method, we go beyond traditional paradigms of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-18 Ze-Zhou Zhang , Wei Wu

Maxwell refrigerator as a device that can transfer heat from a cold to hot temperature reservoir making use of information reservoir was introduced by Mandal et al. \cite{Mandal2013a}. The model has a two state demon and a bit stream…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-02-24 Toby Joseph , Kiran V

We demonstrate that a thermal transistor can be made up with a quantum system of 3 interacting subsystems , coupled to a thermal reservoir each. This thermal transistor is analogous to an electronic bipolar one with the ability to control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-25 Karl Joulain , Jérémie Drevillon , Younès Ezzahri , Jose Ordonez-Miranda

Thermodynamics in quantum circuits aims to find improved functionalities of thermal machines, highlight fundamental phenomena peculiar to quantum nature in thermodynamics, and point out limitations in quantum information processing due to…

A quantum thermal diode, similar to an electronic diode, allows for unidirectional heat transmission. In this paper, we study a quantum thermal diode composed of two two-level atoms coupled to auxiliary two-level atoms. We find that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-04 Qin Zhang , Zi-chen Zhang , Yi-jia Yang , Zheng Liu , Chang-shui Yu