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Traditional refrigeration is driven either by external force or an information-feedback mechanism. Surprisingly, the quantum measurement and collapse, which are generally detrimental, can also be used to power a cooling engine even without…

Detecting weak radio-frequency electromagnetic fields plays a crucial role in wide range of fields, from radio astronomy to nuclear magnetic resonance imaging. In quantum mechanics, the ultimate limit of a weak field is a single-photon.…

We consider a design for a cyclic microrefrigerator using a superconducting flux qubit. Adiabatic modulation of the flux combined with thermalization can be used to transfer energy from a lower temperature normal metal thin film resistor to…

Superconductivity · Physics 2009-11-13 A. O. Niskanen , Y. Nakamura , J. P. Pekola

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

While dephasing noise frequently presents obstacles for quantum devices, it can become an asset in the context of a Brownian-type quantum refrigerator. Here we demonstrate a novel quantum thermal machine that leverages noise-assisted…

Quantum reservoir computing (QRC) is a hardware-implementation-friendly quantum neural network scheme with minimal physical system requirements and a proven advantage over classical counterparts. We use an extension of the positive-P phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-19 S. Świerczewski , W. Verstraelen , P. Deuar , T. C. H. Liew , A. Opala , M. Matuszewski

Quantum Reservoir Computing (QRC) exploits the information processing capabilities of quantum systems to solve non-trivial temporal tasks, improving over their classical counterparts. Recent progress has shown the potential of QRC…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Jorge García-Beni , Gian Luca Giorgi , Miguel C. Soriano , Roberta Zambrini

We demonstrate that a quantum absorption refrigerator can be realized from the smallest quantum system, a qubit, by coupling it in a non-additive (strong) manner to three heat baths. This function is un-attainable for the qubit model under…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-01-17 Anqi Mu , Bijay Kumar Agarwalla , Gernot Schaller , Dvira Segal

We derive an equation for the cooling dynamics of the quantum motion of an atom trapped by an external potential inside an optical resonator. This equation has broad validity and allows us to identify novel regimes where the motion can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Stefano Zippilli , Giovanna Morigi

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

Superconducting circuits present a promising platform with which to realize a quantum refrigerator. Motivated by this, we fabricate and perform spectroscopy of a gated Cooper-pair box, capacitively coupled to two superconducting coplanar…

Laser cooling is a fundamental technique used in primary atomic frequency standards, quantum computers, quantum condensed matter physics and tests of fundamental physics, among other areas. It has been known since the early 1990s that laser…

We propose an approach to cool a mechanical resonator (MR) via quantum interference in a triple quantum dot (TQD) capacitively coupled to the MR. The TQD connected to three electrodes is an electronic analog of a three-level atom in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2010-01-11 Shi-Hua Ouyang , Chi-Hang Lam , J. Q. You

A quantum resonator in a thermal-equilibrium state with a high temperature has a large average population and is featured with significant occupation over Fock states with a high excitation number. The resonator could be cooled down via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-09 Jia-shun Yan , Jun Jing

In this paper, we show that it is possible to significantly boost the heat extraction ability of the ICO fridge by applying N identical thermalising channels in a superposition of N cyclic causal orders[2], and that this can be further…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-15 Hanlin Nie , Tianfeng Feng , Samuel Longden , Vlatko Vedral

Superconducting quantum processors are a leading platform for implementing practical quantum computation algorithms. Although superconducting quantum processors with hundreds of qubits have been demonstrated, their further scaling up is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-05 Yiyu Zhou , Yufeng Wu , Chunzhen Li , Mohan Shen , Likai Yang , Jiacheng Xie , Hong X. Tang

We study a three-level quantum refrigerator which is driven by a generic light state, even a nonclassical one. With the help of P function expansion of the driving light, we obtain the heat current generated by different types of light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-27 Hui-Jing Cao , Fu Li , Sheng-Wen Li

An implementation of a small quantum absorption refrigerator in a circuit QED architecture is proposed. The setup consists of three harmonic oscillators coupled to a Josephson unction. The refrigerator is autonomous in the sense that it…

Like a quantum computer designed for a particular class of problems, a quantum simulator enables quantitative modeling of quantum systems that is computationally intractable with a classical computer. Quantum simulations of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-07-16 William E. Shanks , Devin L. Underwood , Andrew A. Houck

In recent years, superconducting qubits show great potential in quantum computation. Hence, microwave photons become very interesting qubits for quantum information processing assisted by superconducting quantum computation. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-17 Hao Zhang , Haibo Wang