Universal bounds on fluctuations in continuous thermal machines

S Saryal, M Gerry, I Khait, D Segal, BK Agarwalla - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study bounds on ratios of fluctuations in steady-state time-reversal energy conversion
devices. In the linear response regime, we prove that the relative fluctuations (precision) of …

Non-Markovian thermal operations boosting the performance of quantum heat engines

K Ptaszyński - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
It is investigated whether non-Markovianity, ie, the memory effects resulting from the
coupling of the system to its environment, can be beneficial for the performance of quantum …

Quadratic enhancement in the reliability of collective quantum engines

N Jaseem, S Vinjanampathy, V Mukherjee - Physical Review A, 2023 - APS
We study fluctuations in many-body quantum heat engines operating in the presence of
collective system-bath interactions. We show that collective effects in open quantum systems …

Monitoring quantum Otto engines

J Son, P Talkner, J Thingna - PRX Quantum, 2021 - APS
Unlike classical systems, a measurement performed on a quantum system always alters its
state. In this work, the impacts of two diagnostic schemes to determine the performance of …

Finite-time thermodynamics of fluctuations in microscopic heat engines

G Watanabe, Y Minami - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
Fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities become non-negligible and play an important role
when the system size is small. We develop finite-time thermodynamics of fluctuations in …

Bounds on fluctuations for finite-time quantum Otto cycle

S Saryal, BK Agarwalla - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
For quantum Otto engine driven quasistatically, we provide exact full statistics of heat and
work for a class of working fluids that follow a scale-invariant energy eigenspectra under …

Precision bound and optimal control in periodically modulated continuous quantum thermal machines

A Das, S Mahunta, BK Agarwalla, V Mukherjee - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We use Floquet formalism to study fluctuations in periodically modulated continuous
quantum thermal machines. We present a generic theory for such machines, followed by …

Bounds on fluctuations for ensembles of quantum thermal machines

M Gerry, N Kalantar, D Segal - Journal of Physics A …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We study universal aspects of fluctuations in an ensemble of noninteracting continuous
quantum thermal machines in the steady-state limit, beyond linear response. Considering an …

Bounds on fluctuations for machines with broken time-reversal symmetry: A linear response study

S Saryal, S Mohanta, BK Agarwalla - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
For a generic class of machines with broken time-reversal symmetry we show that in the
linear response regime the relative fluctuation of the sum of output currents for time-forward …

Relation between fluctuations and efficiency at maximum power for small heat engines

GH Xu, C Jiang, Y Minami, G Watanabe - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
We study the ratio between the variances of work output and heat input, η (2), for a class of
four-stroke heat engines, which covers various typical cycles. Recent studies on the upper …