Quantum Otto engine driven by quantum fields

K Gallock-Yoshimura, V Thakur, RB Mann - Frontiers in Physics, 2023 - frontiersin.org
We consider a quantum Otto engine using an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector model which
interacts with a quantum scalar field in curved spacetime. We express a generic condition for …

Entanglement harvesting between two inertial Unruh-DeWitt detectors from nonvacuum quantum fluctuations

D Barman, S Barman, BR Majhi - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
It is a well-known fact that, in recent times, entanglement harvesting from the quantum field is
being rigorously investigated further in flat and different curved backgrounds. The usually …

Relativistic quantum Otto engine: instant work extraction from a quantum field

K Gallock-Yoshimura - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2024 - Springer
A bstract In this study, we carry out a non-perturbative approach to a quantum Otto engine,
employing an Unruh-DeWitt particle detector to extract work from a quantum Klein-Gordon …

Entanglement harvesting from conformal vacuums between two Unruh-DeWitt detectors moving along null paths

S Barman, D Barman, BR Majhi - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2022 - Springer
A bstract It is well-known that the (1+ 1) dimensional Schwarzschild and spatially flat FLRW
spacetimes are conformally flat. This work examines entanglement harvesting from the …

An exactly solvable relativistic quantum Otto engine

NK Kollas, D Moustos - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
We revisit the mathematics of exactly solvable Unruh-DeWitt detector models, interacting
with massless scalar fields under instantaneous interactions, to construct a relativistic …

Unruh quantum Otto engine in the presence of a reflecting boundary

A Mukherjee, S Gangopadhyay… - Journal of High Energy …, 2022 - Springer
A bstract We introduce a new model of relativistic quantum analogue of the classical Otto
engine in the presence of a perfectly reflecting boundary. A single qubit acts as the working …

Optimization of entanglement harvesting depends on the extremality and nonextremality of a black hole

S Barman, B Ranjan Majhi - arxiv e-prints, 2023 - ui.adsabs.harvard.edu
This work considers two Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting with a massless, minimally
coupled scalar field in a $(1+ 1) $ dimensional Reissner-Nordström black hole spacetime. In …

Accelerated paths and Unruh effect: finite time detector response in (anti) de Sitter spacetime and Huygen's principle

S Ahmed, MM Faruk, M Rahman - The European Physical Journal C, 2023 - Springer
We study the finite time response of an Unruh–DeWitt particle detector described by a qubit
(two-level system) moving with uniform constant acceleration in maximally symmetric …

Optimization of entanglement depends on whether a black hole is extremal

S Barman, BR Majhi - General Relativity and Gravitation, 2024 - Springer
Abstract We consider two Unruh-DeWitt detectors interacting with a massless, minimally
coupled scalar field in a\((1+ 1)\) dimensional Reissner-Nordström black hole spacetime. In …

The gravitational quantum Otto refrigeration cycle

NK Kollas - arxiv preprint arxiv:2408.03905, 2024 - arxiv.org
We take advantage of the gravitational redshift experienced by a photon propagating in
curved spacetime in order to construct a quantum Otto refrigeration cycle. Deriving a lower …