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What are the resources that can be leveraged for a thermodynamic device to exhibit genuine quantum advantage? Typically, the answer to this question is sought in quantum correlations. In the present work, we show that quantum Otto engines…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-20 Sebastian Deffner

Characterizing quantum phases-of-matter at finite-temperature is essential for understanding complex materials and large-scale thermodynamic phenomena. Here, we develop algorithmic protocols for simulating quantum thermodynamics on quantum…

We consider a paradigmatic quantum harmonic Otto engine operating in finite time. We investigate its performance when shortcut-to-adiabaticity techniques are used to speed up its cycle. We compute efficiency and power by taking the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-26 Obinna Abah , Eric Lutz

Quantum thermodynamics with microscopic inelastic scattering processes has been intensively investigated in recent years. Here, we apply quantum master equation combined with full counting statistics approach to investigate the role of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-15 Jincheng Lu , Zi Wang , Jie Ren , Chen Wang , Jian-Hua Jiang

We study the optimization of the performance of arbitrary periodically driven thermal machines. Within the assumption of fast modulation of the driving parameters, we derive the optimal cycle that universally maximizes the extracted power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 Vasco Cavina , Paolo A. Erdman , Paolo Abiuso , Leonardo Tolomeo , Vittorio Giovannetti

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

We investigate the energetic advantage of accelerating a quantum harmonic oscillator Otto engine by use of shortcuts to adiabaticity (for the expansion and compression strokes) and to equilibrium (for the hot isochore), by means of…

We study the quantum Zeno effect (QZE) and quantum anti-Zeno effect (QAZE) in a two-level system(TLS) interacting with an environment owning 1/f noise. Using a numerically exact method based on the thermo field dynamics(TFD) theory and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Shu He , Chen Wang , Li-Wei Duan , Qing-Hu Chen

We have studied the performance of a measurement-based quantum Otto engine (QOE) in a working system of two spins coupled by Heisenberg anisotropic interaction. A non-selective quantum measurement fuels the engine. We have calculated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-09 Chayan Purkait , Asoka Biswas

A quantum model of a heat engine resembling the Otto cycle is employed to explore strategies to suppress frictional losses. These losses are caused by the inability of the engine's working medium to follow adiabatically the change in the…

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

The quantum heat engines have drawn much attention due to miniaturization of devices recently. We study the dynamics of the quantum Otto heat engine using the driven-dissipative Schr\"{o}dinger equation. Starting from different initial…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-25 You-wei Fang , Yu-ting Zheng , Jun Chang

Finite-time quantum heat engines are of practical relevance as they can generate finite-power, distinguishing them from ideal quasistatic engines typically used for theoretical purposes. However, these engines encounter energy losses due to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-30 Chimdessa Gashu Feyisa , H. H. Jen

Thermodynamic constraints impose a trade-off between power and efficiency in heat engines, preventing the simultaneous achievement of high power and high efficiency. For classical microscopic engines, explicit inequalities have been…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-22 Hyun-Myung Chun , Jong-Min Park

The efficiency of cyclic heat engines is limited by the Carnot bound. This bound follows from the second law of thermodynamics and is attained by engines that operate between two thermal baths under the reversibility condition whereby the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Arnab Ghosh , Wolfgang Niedenzu , Victor Mukherjee , Gershon Kurizki

Continuous particle exchange thermal machines require no time-dependent driving, can be realised in solid-state electronic devices, and miniaturised to nanometre scale. Quantum dots, providing a narrow energy filter and allowing to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Eugenia Pyurbeeva , Ronnie Kosloff

The one-dimensional extended Hubbard model (EHM) in the atomic limit has recently been found to exhibit a curious thermal pseudo-transition behavior, which closely resembles first and second-order thermal phase transitions. This phenomenon,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-04-18 Onofre Rojas , Moises Rojas , S. M. de Souza

Unveiling the impact in thermodynamics of the phenomena specific to quantum mechanics is a crucial step to identify fundamental costs for quantum operations and quantum advantages in heat engines. We propose a two-reservoir setup to detect…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 Cyril Elouard , George Thomas , Olivier Maillet , Jukka P. Pekola , Andrew N. Jordan

We propose to use the continuous version of the quantum Zeno effect to eliminate leakage to higher energy states in superconducting quantum computing architectures based on Josephson phase and flux qubits. We are particularly interested in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-18 Andrei Galiautdinov

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

It was reported that, if and only if the specific heat, correlation length, and dynamical exponents $\alpha, \nu$ and $z$, fulfill the condition $\alpha-z\nu>0$, the phase transitions can enable a quantum heat engine to approach Carnot…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-16 Jianhui Wang , Jizhou He , Yongli Ma