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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

The interplay between quantum-mechanical properties, such as coherence, and classical notions, such as energy, is a subtle topic at the forefront of quantum thermodynamics. The traditional Carnot argument limits the conversion of heat to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-02-23 Kamil Korzekwa , Matteo Lostaglio , Jonathan Oppenheim , David Jennings

Constraints on work extraction are fundamental to our operational understanding of the thermodynamics of both classical and quantum systems. In the quantum setting, finite-time control operations typically generate coherence in the…

When a measurement is carried out on one of the entangled parties, the second party can extract work owing to the reduction in its entropy. Here we inquire the amount of work/energy corresponding to the symmetrization entanglement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-22 Mehmet Emre Tasgin

Preparation of non-trivial quantum states without introducing unwanted excitations or decoherence remains a central challenge in utilizing ultracold atomic systems for quantum simulation. We employ optimal control methods to realize fast,…

The study of quantum thermodynamics aims to elucidate the role played by quantum principles in the emergent features of quantum thermodynamic processes. Specifically, it is of fundamental importance to understand how quantum correlation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-13 Jaewon Lee , Changsuk Noh , Kabgyun Jeong , Hyunchul Nha

Quantum thermodynamics allows for the interconversion of quantum coherence and mechanical work. Quantum coherence is thus a potential physical resource for quantum machines. However, formulating a general nonequilibrium thermodynamics of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-05 Franklin L. S. Rodrigues , Eric Lutz

Temporal coherence is a fundamental property of macroscopic quantum systems, such as lasers in optics and Bose-Einstein condensates in atomic gases and it is a crucial issue for interferometry applications with light or matter waves.…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2015-05-13 Alice Sinatra , Yvan Castin , Emilia Witkowska

We study the dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential in the two-mode approximation. The dissipation of energy from the condensate is described by the coupling to a thermal reservoir of non-condensate modes. As a…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-31 Janne Ruostekoski , Dan F. Walls

Quantum coherence, encoded in the off-diagonal elements of a system's density matrix, is a key resource in quantum thermodynamics, fundamentally limiting the maximum extractable work known as ergotropy. While previous experiments have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-04 Li Li , Silu Zhao , Yun-Hao Shi , Kai Xu , Heng Fan , Dongning Zheng , Zhongcheng Xiang

We show that work can be extracted from a two-level system (spin) coupled to a bosonic thermal bath. This is possible due to different initial temperatures of the spin and the bath, both positive (no spin population inversion) and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. E. Allahverdyan , R. Serral Gracia , Th. M. Nieuwenhuizen

We put forward the concept of work extraction from thermal noise by phase-sensitive (homodyne) measurements of the noisy input followed by (outcome-dependent) unitary manipulations of the post-measured state. For optimized measurements,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-28 Tomas Opatrný , Avijit Misra , Gershon Kurizki

We analyze work extraction protocols using the long-lived quantum coherence of a three-level quantum system, which is coupled to a thermal bath through dipole-monopole interactions. We identify situations where persistent quantum coherence…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Wenjing Chen , Si-Wei Han , Xiaoshan Feng , Jun Feng

We use the quantum kinetic theory to calculate the steady state and the fluctuations of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature. The system is divided in a condensate and a non-condensate part. A quantum mechanical…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Jaksch , C. W. Gardiner , K. M. Gheri , P. Zoller

We consider the task of extracting work from quantum systems in the resource theory perspective of thermodynamics, where free states are arbitrary thermal states, and allowed operations are energy conserving unitary transformations. Taking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-02-13 Paul Skrzypczyk , Anthony J. Short , Sandu Popescu

The quantum and thermal fluctuations of the phase are investigated in a cold Bose gas confined by a double well trap. The coherence of the system is discussed in terms of the visibility of interference fringes in both momentum and…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 L. Pitaevskii , S. Stringari

The presence of correlations in the input state of a non-interacting many-body quantum system can lead to an increase in the amount of work we can extract from it under global unitary processes (ergotropy). The present work explore such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-04 Raffaele Salvia , Vittorio Giovannetti

Understanding how coherence of quantum systems affects thermodynamic quantities, such as work and heat, is essential for harnessing quantumness effectively in thermal quantum technologies. Here, we study the unique contributions of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-07 Rui Huang , Q. Y. Cai , Farzam Nosrati , Rosario Lo Franco , Zhong-Xiao Man

In the conventional two-point measurement scheme of quantum thermodynamics, quantum coherence is destroyed by the first measurement. But as we know the coherence really plays an important role in the quantum thermodynamics process, and how…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 Bao-Ming Xu , Jian Zou , Li-Sha Guo , Xiang-Mu Kong

Exploiting the relative entropy of coherence, we isolate the coherent contribution in the energetics of a driven non-equilibrium quantum system. We prove that a division of the irreversible work can be made into a coherent and incoherent…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-10 G. Francica , J. Goold , F. Plastina
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