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We generalize the quantum adiabatic theorem to the non-Hermitian system and build a rigorous adiabaticity condition with respect to the adiabatic phase. The non-Hermitian Hamiltonian inverse engineering method is proposed for the purpose to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-30 Qi-Cheng Wu , Ye-Hong Chen , Bi-Hua Huang , Yan Xia , Jie Song

The main objective of quantum simulation is an in-depth understanding of many-body physics. It is important for fundamental issues (quantum phase transitions, transport, . . . ) and for the development of innovative materials. Analytic…

Crossing a quantum critical point in finite time challenges the adiabatic condition due to the closing of the energy gap, which ultimately results in the formation of excitations. Such non-adiabatic excitations are typically deemed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-27 Obinna Abah , Gabriele De Chiara , Mauro Paternostro , Ricardo Puebla

At non-zero temperature classical systems exhibit statistical fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities arising from the variation of the system's initial conditions and its interaction with the environment. The fluctuating work, for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-07 Rui Sampaio , Samu Suomela , Tapio Ala-Nissila , Janet Anders , Thomas Philbin

We present a realistic implementation of a quantum engine powered by a phaseonium gas of coherently prepared three-level atoms -- where quantum coherence acts as a thermodynamic resource. Using a collision model framework for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-12 Federico Amato , Gerardo Adesso , G. Massimo Palma , Salvatore Lorenzo , Rosario Lo Franco

Many quantum technologies, including quantum computers, quantum heat engines, and quantum sensors, rely on operating conditions in the subkelvin regime. It is therefore desirable to develop practical tools and methods for the precise…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-28 Riya Baruah , Pedro Portugal , Joachim Wabnig , Christian Flindt

Recent theory and experiments have showcased how to harness quantum mechanics to assemble heat/information engines with efficiencies that surpass the classical Carnot limit. So far, this has required atomic engines that are driven by…

The finite-time isothermal process is fundamental in quantum thermodynamics yet complicated with combination of changing control parameters and the interaction with the thermal bath. Such complexity prevents the direct application of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-07 Jin-Fu Chen , Ying Li , Hui Dong

We study the thermodynamic performance of the finite-time non-regenerative Stirling cycle used as a quantum heat engine. We consider specifically the case in which the working substance (WS) is a two-level system. The Stirling cycle is made…

In this paper, we study the role and relevance of the cost for an invariant-based shortcut to adiabaticity enabled qubit heat engine operates in a quantum Otto cycle. We consider a qubit heat engine with Landau-Zener Hamiltonian and improve…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 T. Kiran , M. Ponmurugan

Within a microscopic theory, we study the quantum Brownian motion of a skyrmion in a magnetic insulator coupled to a bath of magnon-like quantum excitations. The intrinsic skyrmion-bath coupling gives rise to damping terms for the skyrmion…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Christina Psaroudaki , Pavel Aseev , Daniel Loss

According to Clausius formulation of the second law of thermodynamics, for any thermal machine withdrawing heats $Q_{1,2}$ from two heat reservoirs at temperatures $T_{1,2}$, it holds $Q_1/T_1+Q_2/T_2 \leq 0$. Combined with the observation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-03-04 Andrea Solfanelli , Marco Falsetti , Michele Campisi

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

Following the rising interest in quantum information science, the extension of a heat engine to the quantum regime by exploring microscopic quantum systems has seen a boom of interest in the last decade. Although quantum coherence in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-14 Wentao Ji , Zihua Chai , Mengqi Wang , Yuhang Guo , Xing Rong , Fazhan Shi , Changliang Ren , Ya Wang , Jiangfeng Du

Heat transfer involving phase change is computationally intensive due to moving phase boundaries, nonlinear computations, and time step restrictions. This paper presents a quantum lattice Boltzmann method (QLBM) for simulating heat transfer…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Christopher L. Jawetz , Zhixin Song , Spencer H. Bryngelson , Alexander Alexeev

In this paper, we analyze the operation of an Otto cycle heat machine driven by a non-interacting two-dimensional electron gas on a twisted geometry. We show that due to both the energy quantization on this structure and the adiabatic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-28 Cleverson Filgueiras , Moises Rojas , Edilberto O. Silva , Carlos Romero

We identify and interpret the possible quantum thermal machine regimes with a transverse-field Ising model as the working substance. In general, understanding the emergence of such regimes in a many-body quantum system is challenging due to…

We propose a method to produce fast transitionless dynamics for finite-dimensional quantum systems without requiring additional Hamiltonian components not included in the initial control setup, remaining close to the true adiabatic path at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-09 Francesco Petiziol , Benjamin Dive , Florian Mintert , Sandro Wimberger

We study the creation of quantum skyrmions in quadratic nanoscopic lattices of quantum spins coupled by Dzyaloshinkii-Moriya and exchange interactions. We numerically show that different kinds of quantum skyrmions, characterized by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-17 Pia Siegl , Elena Y. Vedmedenko , Martin Stier , Michael Thorwart , Thore Posske

Skyrmions are twirling magnetic textures whose non-trivial topology leads to particle-like properties promising for information technology applications. Perhaps the most important aspect of interacting particles is their ability to form…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-06-17 Ping Huang , Marco Cantoni , Arnaud Magrez , Fabrizio Carbone , Henrik M. Rønnow