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Currently, dynamics of a massive macroparticle is given by classical analytical mechanics (CM), while that of a massive micro one is given by quantum mechanics (QM). We propose a mechanics effective for both: We transform, under coordinate…

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We present a general analytical framework for quasi-static quantum Stirling engines operating across ground-state level crossings (GLC). In the low-temperature regime, we derive the Primarch Formula, an exact universal expression linking…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-04-03 Bastian Castorene , Martin HvE Groves , Francisco J. Peña , Eugenio E. Vogel , Patricio Vargas

We have studied the performance of a measurement-based quantum Otto engine (QOE) in a working system of two spins coupled by Heisenberg anisotropic interaction. A non-selective quantum measurement fuels the engine. We have calculated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Chayan Purkait , Asoka Biswas

We present an analytical study of the relativistic quantum Otto cycle driven by a time-dependent harmonic oscillator. By imposing an asymmetry on the two adiabatic processes of this cycle, we obtain distinct scenarios of sudden compression…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-14 Monika , Shishram Rebari

We propose a scheme for a single-atom quantum heat engine based on ultra-cold atom technologies. Building on the high degree of control typical of cold atom systems, we demonstrate that three paradigmatic heat engines -- Carnot, Otto and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-03 Giovanni Barontini , Mauro Paternostro

We investigate scaling of work and efficiency of a photonic Carnot engine with the number of quantum coherent resources. Specifically, we consider a generalization of the "phaseonium fuel" for the photonic Carnot engine, which was first…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-03 Deniz Türkpençe , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We study the efficiency at the maximal power $\eta_\mathrm{max}$ of a finite-time Carnot cycle of a weakly interacting gas which we can reagard as a nearly ideal gas. In several systems interacting with the hot and cold reservoirs of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-09-13 Yuki Izumida , Koji Okuda

We show that a direct connection can be drawn, based on fundamental quantum principles, between the Morse potential, extensively used as an empirical description for the atomic interaction in diatomic molecules, and the harmonic potential.…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-04 R. N. Costa Filho , G. Alencar , B. -S. Skagerstam , J. S. Andrade

Quantum machine learning (QML) is a fast-growing discipline within quantum computing. One popular QML algorithm, quantum kernel estimation, uses quantum circuits to estimate a similarity measure (kernel) between two classical feature…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-12 Travis L. Scholten , Derrick Perry , Joseph Washington , Jennifer R. Glick , Thomas Ward

The Carnot cycle imposes a fundamental upper limit to the efficiency of a macroscopic motor operating between two thermal baths. However, this bound needs to be reinterpreted at microscopic scales, where molecular bio-motors and some…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-02-03 Ignacio A. Martínez , Édgar Roldán , Luis Dinis , Dmitri Petrov , Juan M. R. Parrondo , Raúl A. Rica

We investigate the energetic advantage of accelerating a quantum harmonic oscillator Otto engine by use of shortcuts to adiabaticity (for the expansion and compression strokes) and to equilibrium (for the hot isochore), by means of…

We model a microscopic heat engine as a particle hopping on a one-dimensional lattice in a periodic sawtooth potential, with or without load, assisted by the thermal kicks it gets from alternately placed hot and cold thermal baths. We find…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 Mesfin Asfaw , Mulugeta Bekele

Relativistic quantum systems exhibit unique features not present at lower energies, such as the existence of both particles and antiparticles, and restrictions placed on the system dynamics due to the light cone. In order to understand what…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-10-16 Nathan M. Myers , Obinna Abah , Sebastian Deffner

Dynamical phases are obtained for a quantum thermal engine, whose working medium is a single harmonic oscillator. The dynamics of this engine is obtained by using four steps where in two steps the time dependent frequency is changing. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Y. Ben-Aryeh

Stability is an important property of small thermal machines with fluctuating power output. We here consider a finite-time quantum Carnot engine based on a degenerate multilevel system and study the influence of its finite Hilbert space…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-08-18 Tobias Denzler , Eric Lutz

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

An analysis of efficiency and its bounds at maximum work output for Carnot-like heat engines is conducted. The heat transfer processes are described by the linear law with time-dependent heat conductance. The upper bound of efficiency is…

Classical Physics · Physics 2014-06-04 Rui Long , Wei Liu

A current-carrying resonant nanoscale device, simulated by non-adiabatic molecular dynamics, exhibits sharp activation of non-conservative current-induced forces with bias. The result, above the critical bias, is generalized rotational…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-21 Daniel Dundas , Brian Cunningham , Claire Buchanan , Asako Terasawa , Anthony T. Paxton , Tchavdar N. Todorov

We study the performance of a quantum Otto cycle using a harmonic work medium and undergoing collisional dynamics with finite-size reservoirs. We span the dynamical regimes of the work strokes from strongly non-adiabatic to quasi-static…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 Marco Pezzutto , Mauro Paternostro , Yasser Omar

The derivation of the efficiency of Carnot cycle is usually done by calculating the heats involved in two isothermal processes and making use of the associated adiabatic relation for a given working substance's equation of state, usually…

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