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We present a quantum network approach to the treatment of thermal and quantum fluctuations in measurement devices. The measurement is described as a scattering process of input fluctuations towards output ones. We present the results…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean-Michel Courty , Francesca Grassia , Serge Reynaud

Recent advances in nano-thermometry motivate the extension of the Landauer-B\"uttiker scattering theory as to include the non-local dissipation associated with charge transport. Such a program is implemented by describing the inelastic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Rodolfo A. Jalabert

A quantum thermal transistor is designed by the strong coupling between one qubit and one qutrit which are in contact with three heat baths with different temperatures. The thermal behavior is analyzed based on the master equation by both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-12 Bao-qing Guo , Tong Liu , Chang-shui Yu

We study the phenomenon of absorption refrigeration, where refrigeration is achieved by heating instead of work, in two different setups: a minimal set up based on coupled qubits, and two non-linearly coupled resonators. Considering ZZ…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-01 Bibek Bhandari , Andrew N. Jordan

Quantum technologies offer unprecedented capabilities in computation and secure information transfer. Their implementation requires qubits to operate at cryogenic temperatures (CT) while control and readout electronics typically still…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-19 Yating Zou , Batuhan Keskin , Gregor G. Taylor , Zenghui Li , Jie Wang , Eduard Alarcon , Fabio Sebastiano , Masoud Babaie , Edoardo Charbon

Motivated by damage due to heating in sensor operation, we consider the throughput optimal offline data scheduling problem in an energy harvesting transmitter such that the resulting temperature increase remains below a critical level. We…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Omur Ozel , Sennur Ulukus , Pulkit Grover

The ideas of thermodynamics have proved fruitful in the setting of quantum information theory, in particular the notion that when the allowed transformations of a system are restricted, certain states of the system become useful resources…

Heat transfer properties in non-reciprocal systems are discussed. An ideal experiment employing microwave or optical isolators is considered in order to investigate the possibility for a spontaneous transfer of energy between two black…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Alejandro Cabo

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

In systems described by the scattering theory, there is an upper bound, lower than Carnot, on the efficiency of steady-state heat to work conversion at a given output power. We show that interacting systems can overcome such bound and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2018-08-27 Rongxiang Luo , Giuliano Benenti , Giulio Casati , Jiao Wang

With the continuous advancement of nanotechnology, nanodevices have become crucial components in computing, sensing and energy conversion applications. However, the structures of nanodevices typically possess sub-wavelength dimensions and…

The increasing scale and nonlinearity of modern energy and power system problems pose significant challenges to classical numerical solvers. In parallel, advances in quantum and quantum-inspired hardware are expected to improve scalability…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Zeynab Kaseb , Matthias Moller , Peter Palensky , Pedro P. Vergara

We present a detailed study of quantum thermal machines employing quantum systems as working substances. In particular, we study two different types of two-stroke cycles where two collections of identical quantum systems with evenly spaced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-01 Nicolò Piccione , Gabriele De Chiara , Bruno Bellomo

We investigate the second-order nonlinear electronic thermal transport induced by temperature gradient. We develop the quantum kinetic theory framework to describe thermal transport in presence of a temperature gradient. Using this, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-05 Harsh Varshney , Kamal Das , Pankaj Bhalla , Amit Agarwal

Nonreciprocity, arising from the breaking of time-reversal symmetry, has become a fundamental tool in diverse quantum technology applications. It enables directional flow of signals and efficient noise suppression, constituting a key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-29 Borhan Ahmadi , Paweł Mazurek , Paweł Horodecki , Shabir Barzanjeh

We analyze experimental data obtained from an electrical circuit having components at different temperatures, showing how to predict its response to temperature variations. This illustrates in detail how to utilize a recent linear response…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-09-07 Marco Baiesi , Sergio Ciliberto , Gianmaria Falasco , Cem Yolcu

We present the spin quantum Otto machine under different optimization criterion when function either as a heat engine or a refrigerator. We examine the optimal performance of the heat engine and refrigerator depending on their efficiency,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-08-13 Satnam Singh , Obinna Abah

We demonstrate the possiblity to cool nanoelectronic systems in nonequilibrium situations by increasing the temperature of the environment. Such cooling by heating is possible for a variety of experimental conditions where the relevant…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 R. Härtle , C. Schinabeck , M. Kulkarni , D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky , M. Thoss , U. Peskin

We present a theoretical study of radiative heat transport in nonlinear solid-state quantum circuits. We give a detailed account of heat rectification effects, i.e. the asymmetry of heat current with respect to a reversal of the thermal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-04-28 Tomi Ruokola , Teemu Ojanen , Antti-Pekka Jauho

We introduce the resource-theoretic free energy of a quantum channel as the maximal work extractable from the channel as its output equilibrates to a thermal state and its reference system remains locally intact. It is proportional to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 Himanshu Badhani , Dhanuja G S , Siddhartha Das