Quantum engines and refrigerators

LM Cangemi, C Bhadra, A Levy - Physics Reports, 2024 - Elsevier
Engines are systems and devices that convert one form of energy into another, typically into
a more useful form that can perform work. In the classical setup, physical, chemical, and …

[HTML][HTML] Quantum thermodynamic devices: From theoretical proposals to experimental reality

NM Myers, O Abah, S Deffner - AVS quantum science, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Thermodynamics originated in the need to understand novel technologies developed by the
Industrial Revolution. However, over the centuries, the description of engines, refrigerators …

Advances in thermoelectric composites consisting of conductive polymers and fillers with different architectures

B Huo, CY Guo - Molecules, 2022 - mdpi.com
Stretchable wireless power is in increasingly high demand in fields such as smart devices,
flexible robots, and electronic skins. Thermoelectric devices are able to convert heat into …

Critical heat current for operating an entanglement engine

S Khandelwal, N Palazzo, N Brunner… - New Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Autonomous entanglement engines have recently been proposed to generate steady-state
bipartite and multipartite entanglement exploiting only incoherent interactions with thermal …

Photonic heat rectification in a system of coupled qubits

A Iorio, E Strambini, G Haack, M Campisi, F Giazotto - Physical Review Applied, 2021 - APS
We theoretically investigate a quantum heat diode based on two interacting flux qubits
coupled to two heat baths. Rectification of heat currents is achieved by asymmetrically …

Coherent control of thermoelectric currents and noise in quantum thermocouples

J Balduque, R Sánchez - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
Three-terminal coherent conductors are able to perform as quantum thermocouples when
the heat absorbed from one terminal is transformed into useful power in the other two …

Strong-coupling quantum thermodynamics of quantum Brownian motion based on the exact solution of its reduced density matrix

CZ Yao, WM Zhang - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
We derive the quantum thermodynamics of quantum Brownian motion from the exact
solution of its reduced density matrix. We start from the total equilibrium thermal state …

Quantum coherent control of nonlinear thermoelectric transport in a triple-dot Aharonov-Bohm heat engine

J Behera, S Bedkihal, BK Agarwalla… - Physical Review B, 2023 - APS
We investigate the role of quantum coherence and higher harmonics resulting from multiple-
path interference in nonlinear thermoelectricity in a two-terminal triangular triple-dot …

Hybrid normal-superconducting Aharonov-Bohm quantum thermal device

G Blasi, F Giazotto, G Haack - Quantum Science and Technology, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We propose and theoretically investigate the behavior of a ballistic Aharonov-Bohm (AB)
ring when embedded in a NS two-terminal setup, consisting of a normal metal (N) and …

Strong-coupling quantum thermodynamics far from equilibrium: Non-Markovian transient quantum heat and work

WM Huang, WM Zhang - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
In this paper, we investigate the strong-coupling quantum thermodynamics of a hybrid
quantum system far from equilibrium, based on the renormalization theory of quantum …