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Continuous quantum measurement and feedback induce energy exchange between a dissipative qubit and a monitor even in the steady state, as a measurement backaction. Using the Lindblad equation, we identified the maximum and minimum values of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Tsuyoshi Yamamoto , Yasuhiro Tokura

The aim of this book chapter is to indicate how quantum phenomena are affecting the operation of microscopic thermal machines, such as engines and refrigerators. As converting heat to work is one of the fundamental concerns in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Amikam Levy , David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky

Quantum physics emerge and develop as temperature is reduced. Although mesoscopic electrical circuits constitute an outstanding platform to explore quantum behavior, the challenge in cooling the electrons impedes their potential. The strong…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-13 Z. Iftikhar , A. Anthore , S. Jezouin , F. D. Parmentier , Y. Jin , A. Cavanna , A. Ouerghi , U. Gennser , F. Pierre

While quantum measurements have been shown to constitute a resource for operating quantum thermal machines, the nature of the energy exchanges involved in the interaction between system and measurement apparatus is still under debate. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-03 Cyril Elouard , Sreenath K. Manikandan , Andrew N. Jordan , Geraldine Haack

We discuss an approach to determine averages of the work, dissipated heat and variation of internal energy of an open quantum system driven by an external classical field. These quantities are measured by coupling the quantum system to a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Paolo Solinas , Mirko Amico , Nino N. Zanghì

We discuss a quantum typicality approach to examine systems composed of two subsystems at different temperatures. While dynamical quantum typicality is usually used to simulate high-temperature dynamics, we also investigate low-temperature…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-02-12 Laurenz Beckemeyer , Markus Kraft , Mariel Kempa , Dirk Schuricht , Robin Steinigeweg

Performing imperfect or noisy measurements on a quantum system both impacts the measurement outcome and the state of the system after the measurement. In this paper we are concerned with imperfect calorimetric measurements. In calorimetric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-25 Brecht Donvil , Joachim Ankerhold

In this work, we investigate the heat flow of two interacting quantum systems on the perspective of noncommutativity phase-space effects and show that by controlling the new constants introduced in the quantum theory, due to a deformed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 Jonas F. G. Santos

Heat exchanges are the essence of Thermodynamics. In order to investigate non-equilibrium effects like quantum coherence and correlations in heat flows we introduce the concept of apparent temperature. Its definition is based on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-10 Camille L. Latune , Ilya Sinayskiy , Franceso Petruccione

A quantum engine fueled by quantum measurement is proposed. Under the finite-time adiabatic driving regime, the conversion of heat to work is realized without the compression and expansion of the resonance frequency. The work output,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-23 Shanhe Su , Zhiyuan Lin , Jincan Chen

The majority of quantum error detection and correction protocols assume that the population in a qubit does not leak outside of its computational subspace. For many existing approaches, however, the physical qubits do possess more than two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-24 Joydip Ghosh , Austin G. Fowler , John M. Martinis , Michael R. Geller

We review the main results and ideas showing that quantum correlations at finite temperatures (T), in particular quantum discord, are useful tools in characterizing quantum phase transitions that only occur, in principle, at the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-24 T. Werlang , G. A. P. Ribeiro , Gustavo Rigolin

We report low-temperature transport measurements through a double quantum dot device in a configuration where one of the quantum dots is coupled directly to the source and drain electrodes, and a second (side-coupled) quantum dot interacts…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-04 D. Y. Baines , T. Meunier , D. Mailly , A. D. Wieck , C. Bäuerle , L. Saminadayar , Pablo S. Cornaglia , Gonzalo Usaj , C. A. Balseiro , D. Feinberg

In the near future, a major challenge in quantum computing is to scale up robust qubit prototypes to practical problem sizes and to implement comprehensive error correction for computational precision. Due to inevitable quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Joni Ikonen , Juha Salmilehto , Mikko Möttönen

Thermodynamics in quantum circuits aims to find improved functionalities of thermal machines, highlight fundamental phenomena peculiar to quantum nature in thermodynamics, and point out limitations in quantum information processing due to…

We describe a scalable experimental protocol for obtaining estimates of the error rate of individual quantum computational gates. This protocol, in which random Clifford gates are interleaved between a gate of interest, provides a bounded…

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…

Quantum devices are affected by intrinsic and environmental noises. An in-depth characterization of noise effects is essential for exploiting noisy quantum computing. To this end, we studied the energy dissipative behavior of a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-14 Tadashi Kadowaki , Masayuki Ohzeki

We investigate the steady-state transport characteristics of a quantum dot system consisting of a single energy level embedded between two reservoirs under the influence of both the temperature gradient and bias voltage. Within tailored…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-16 Yanchao Zhang , Xiaolong Lü

We introduce a single-number metric, quantum volume, that can be measured using a concrete protocol on near-term quantum computers of modest size ($n\lesssim 50$), and measure it on several state-of-the-art transmon devices, finding values…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-14 Andrew W. Cross , Lev S. Bishop , Sarah Sheldon , Paul D. Nation , Jay M. Gambetta