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We present a quantum heat engine model utilizing a dual spin-pair architecture, wherein an Otto-like cycle is implemented using a single heat bath. The conventional cold bath is replaced by a measurement protocol, enabling engine operation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-17 S R Rathnakaran , Asoka Biswas

We study the implementation of quantum engines and quantum heat pumps where the quantum adiabatic transformations are replaced by quantum Zeno strokes. During these strokes, frequent measurements are selectively performed on the external…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Giovanni Barontini

Measurement-based quantum heat engines have attracted significant interest as alternatives to conventional thermal engines, as they replace the hot thermal reservoir with quantum measurements, thereby offering greater controllability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-22 Arunabha Das , Sayan Mondal , Debarupa Saha , Ujjwal Sen

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

We consider a finite-time quantum Otto cycle with single and two-spin-$1/2$ systems as its working medium. In order to mimic adiabatic dynamics at a finite-time, we employ a shortcut-to-adiabaticity technique and evaluate the performance of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 Barış Çakmak , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We investigated quantum thermal machines powered by sequential nonselective generalized measurements, taking a double quantum dot with coherent interdot tunneling as a working substance. In this platform, the competition between detuning…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Bruno Carvalho , Jonas F. G. Santos , Moises Rojas

We investigate the thermodynamics and fluctuations of a finite-time quantum Otto engine alternatively driven by a hot squeezed and a cold thermal reservoir. We show that reservoir squeezing significantly enhances the performance by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Yang Xiao , Dehua Liu , Jizhou He , Wu-Ming Liu , L. -L. Yan , Jianhui Wang

Quantum thermal machines are powerful platforms for investigating how quantum effects impact the energy flow between different systems. Here, we investigate a two-stroke cycle in which spin-squeezing effects are intrinsically switched on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-19 Carlos H. S. Vieira , Jonas F. G. Santos

The fundamentals of a quantum heat engine are derived from first principles. The study is based on the equation of motion of a minimum set of operators which is then used to define the state of the system. The relation between the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tova Feldmann , Ronnie Kosloff

We present a measurement-based quantum thermal machine that extracts work from the back-action of generalized quantum measurements whose working medium is a coupled two-level quantum system. Specifically, we derive universal optimization…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Chinonso Onah , Obinna Uzoh , Obinna Abah

Quantum thermal machines make use of non-classical thermodynamic resources, one of which is interactions between elements of the quantum working medium. In this paper, we examine the performance of a quasi-static quantum Otto engine based…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Venu Mehta , Ramandeep S. Johal

The laws of thermodynamics allow work extraction from a single heat bath provided that the entropy decrease of the bath is compensated for by another part of the system. We propose a thermodynamic quantum engine that exploits this principle…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Martin Josefsson , Martin Leijnse

We suggest alternative quantum Otto engines, using heat bath algorithmic cooling with partner pairing algorithm instead of isochoric cooling. Liquid state nuclear magnetic resonance systems in one entropy sink are considered as working…

There exist two formulations for quantum heat engine that models an energy transfer between two microscopic systems. One is semi-classical scenario, and the other is full quantum scenario. The former is formulated as a unitary evolution for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Masahito Hayashi , Hiroyasu Tajima

In this contribution, we investigate two coupled spins as a working substance of the quantum Stirling heat engine cycle. We propose an experimentally implementable scheme in which the cycle is driven by tuning the dipole-dipole interaction…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-20 Selçuk Çakmak , Hamid Reza Rastegar Sedehi

We analyze the entropy production and the maximal extractable work from a squeezed thermal reservoir. The nonequilibrium quantum nature of the reservoir induces an entropy transfer with a coherent contribution while modifying its thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-18 Gonzalo Manzano , Fernando Galve , Roberta Zambrini , Juan M. R. Parrondo

We study energetic exchanges and fluctuations in two-stroke quantum thermodynamic engines where the working fluid is represented by two multilevel quantum systems, i.e. qudits, the heat flow is allowed by relaxation with two thermal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-03 Massimiliano F. Sacchi

We consider a model of heat engine operating in the microscopic regime: the two-stroke engine. It produces work and exchanges heat in two discrete strokes that are separated in time. The working body of the engine consists of two $d$-level…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-21 Tanmoy Biswas , Marcin Łobejko , Paweł Mazurek , Michał Horodecki

We propose a four level quantum heat engine in Otto cycle with a working substance of two spins subject to an external magnetic field and coupled to each other by a one-axis twisting spin squeezing nonlinear interaction. We calculate the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-18 Ferdi Altintas , Ali Ü. C. Hardal , Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

The minimal-coupling quantum heat engine is a thermal machine consisting of an explicit energy storage system, heat baths, and a working body, which alternatively couples to subsystems through discrete strokes -- energy-conserving two-body…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-01 Marcin Łobejko , Paweł Mazurek , Michał Horodecki