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A central theme in chemistry is the understanding of the mechanisms that drive chemical transformations. A well-known, highly cited mechanism in organometallic chemistry is the superexchange mechanism in which unpaired electrons on two or…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2020-10-13 Jan-Niklas Boyn , Jiaze Xie , John S. Anderson , David A. Mazziotti

How much energy does a quantum computer consume? Are they more efficient than their classical counterparts? In this work, we make a step towards answering these questions. We define the energy efficiency of a quantum computer as the ratio…

Entanglement is a fundamental resource for many applications in quantum information processing. Here, we investigate how quantum transport in simple quantum graphs, modeled as controlled two-level quantum systems, can be utilized to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Alison A. Silva , D. Bazeia , Fabiano M. Andrade

this study significantly emphasizes on the entanglement engineering using a transmon qubit. A transmon qubit is created with two superconducting islands coupled with two Josephson Junction embedded into a transmission line. The transmon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-02 Ahmad Salmanogli

We study coherent energy transfer of a single excitation and quantum entanglement in a dimer, which consists of a donor and an acceptor modeled by two two-level systems. Between the donor and the acceptor, there exists a dipole-dipole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Jie-Qiao Liao , Jin-Feng Huang , Le-Man Kuang , C. P. Sun

Optimal engine performances are accomplished by quantum effects. Here we explore two routes towards ideal engines, namely (1) quantum systems that operate as hybrid machines being able to perform more than one useful task and (2) the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-21 Rosa Lopez , Jong Soo Lim , Kun Woo Kim

We study a quantum Otto engine operating on the basis of a helical spin- 1/2 multiferroic chain with strongly coupled magnetic and ferroelectric order parameters. The presence of a finite spin chirality in the working substance enables…

We investigate quantum many-body systems where all low-energy states are entangled. As a tool for quantifying such systems, we introduce the concept of the entanglement gap, which is the difference in energy between the ground-state energy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Mark R. Dowling , Andrew C. Doherty , Stephen D. Bartlett

We show how an ion trap, configured for the coherent manipulation of external and internal quantum states, can be used to simulate the irreversible dynamics of a collective angular momentum model known as the Dicke model. In the special…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 S. Schneider , G. J. Milburn

In a network of interacting quantum systems achieving fast coherent energy transfer is a challenging task. While quantum systems are susceptible to a wide range of environmental factors, in many physical settings their interactions with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-05-09 James Lim , Mark Tame , Ki Hyuk Yee , Joong-Sung Lee , Jinhyoung Lee

Quantum thermodynamic process involves manipulating and controlling quantum states to extract energy or perform computational tasks with high efficiency. There is still no efficientgeneral method to theoretically quantify the effect of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-06-21 Ming-Xing Luo

We investigate the quantum thermodynamic cycle of a quantum heat engine carrying out an Otto thermodynamic cycle. We use the thermal properties of a moving heat bath with relativistic velocity with respect to the cold bath. As a working…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-25 Nikolaos Papadatos

A central question since the beginning of quantum information science is how two distant parties can convert one entangled state into another. It has been conjectured that such conversions could be executed reversibly in an asymptotic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-08 Ray Ganardi , Tulja Varun Kondra , Nelly H. Y. Ng , Alexander Streltsov

Here, we show the implementation of a complete cycle of a quantum engine fuelled by information. This engine is a quantum version of the Szilard engine, where information is used to extract heat from the environment and fully convert it…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-06-19 John P. S. Peterson , Roberto S. Sarthour , Raymond Laflamme

The problem of a controlled transfer of an entanglement initially encoded into two two-level atoms that are successively sent through two single-mode cavities is investigated. The atoms and the cavity modes form a four qubit system and we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-28 Smail Bougouffa , Zbigniew Ficek

We explore the performance of three- and two-stroke heat engines with a qutrit working substance in charging two-level quantum batteries. We first classify the heat engines into two groups depending on their working methods. The first type…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Debarupa Saha , Aparajita Bhattacharyya , Kornikar Sen , Ujjwal Sen

Entanglement is a key resource for quantum information technologies ranging from quantum sensing to quantum computing. Conventionally, the entanglement between two coupled qubits is established at the time scale of the inverse of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-12 Zeng-Zhao Li , Weijian Chen , Maryam Abbasi , Kater W. Murch , K. Birgitta Whaley

We provide a framework for optimizing energy conversion processes in coherent quantum conductors fed by nonthermal resources. Such nonthermal resources, which cannot be characterized by temperatures or electrochemical potentials, occur in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-26 Elsa Danielsson , Henning Kirchberg , Janine Splettstoesser

This study investigates quantum energy teleportation (QET) using stochastic bi-partitioning in an $N-$body Hamiltonian system. In this protocol, project measurements are performed on $(N - m)$ qubits to capture quantum fluctuation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-08 Zhirong Xun , Changliang Ren

We study manipulation of entanglement between two identical networks of quantum mechanical particles. Firstly, we reduce the problem of entanglement transfer to the problem of quantum state transfer. Then, we consider entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-01-27 Andrea Casaccino , Stefano Mancini , Simone Severini