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Quantum heat engines and refrigerators

Known as: Quantum absorption refrigerator, Quantum refrigerators, Quantum heat engines 
A quantum heat engine is a device that generates power from the heat flow between hot and cold reservoirs. The operation mechanism of the engine can… (More)
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2016
2016
Scaling-Up Quantum Heat Engines Efficiently via Shortcuts to Adiabaticity
The finite-time operation of a quantum heat engine that uses a single particle as a working medium generally increases the output… (More)
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2016
2016
Maximum Power Output of Quantum Heat Engine with Energy Bath
Abstract: The difference between quantum isoenergetic process and quantum isothermal process comes from the violation of the law… (More)
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2016
2016
Polaron effects on the performance of light-harvesting systems: a quantum heat engine perspective
  • DazhiXu, ChenWang
  • 2016
Weexplore energy transfer in a generic three-level system,which is coupled to three non-equilibrium baths. Built on the concept… (More)
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2015
2015
Nonequilibrium fluctuations in quantum heat engines: theory, example, and possible solid state experiments
We study stochastic energetic exchanges in quantumheat engines. Due tomicroreversibility, these obey a fluctuation relation… (More)
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2012
2012
Quantum heat engines: A thermodynamic analysis of power and efficiency
We show that the operation and the output power of a quantum heat engine that converts incoherent thermal energy into coherent… (More)
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2012
2012
Heat fluctuations and coherences in a quantum heat engine
Quantum coherence can affect the thermodynamics of small quantum systems. Coherences have been shown to affect the power… (More)
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2012
2012
Quantum heat engine in the relativistic limit: the case of a Dirac particle.
We studied the efficiency of two different schemes for a quantum heat engine, by considering a single Dirac particle trapped in… (More)
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2009
2009
Finite time thermodynamics for a single level quantum dot
We investigate the finite time thermodynamics of a single-level fermion system interacting with a thermal reservoir through a… (More)
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2006
2006
Irreversible performance of a quantum harmonic heat engine
The unavoidable irreversible loss of power in a heat engine is found to be of quantum origin. Following thermodynamic tradition a… (More)
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2005
2005
Distillation of local purity from quantum states
  • Igor Devetak
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  • 2005
Recently Horodecki et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 100402 (2003)] introduced an important quantum information processing paradigm in… (More)
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