Quantum heat engines and nonequilibrium temperature
Quantum Physics
2015-05-14 v1 Statistical Mechanics
Abstract
A pair of two-level systems initially prepared in different thermal states and coupled to an external reversible work source, do not in general reach a common temperature at the end of a unitary work extraction process. We define an effective temperature for the final nonequilibrium but passive state of the bipartite quantum system and analyse its properties.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0909.4394,
title = {Quantum heat engines and nonequilibrium temperature},
author = {Ramandeep S. Johal},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0909.4394},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
Five pages, Accepted for publication in Physical Review E