Thermodynamics of Minimal Coupling Quantum Heat Engines

Marcin Łobejko; Paweł Mazurek; Michał Horodecki

doi:10.22331/q-2020-12-23-375

Thermodynamics of Minimal Coupling Quantum Heat Engines

Marcin Łobejko¹, Paweł Mazurek^1,2, and Michał Horodecki^1,2

¹Institute of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, University of Gdańsk, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland
²International Centre for Theory of Quantum Technologies, University of Gdańsk, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland

Published:	2020-12-23, volume 4, page 375
Eprint:	arXiv:2003.05788v4
Doi:	https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2020-12-23-375
Citation:	Quantum 4, 375 (2020).

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Abstract

The minimal-coupling quantum heat engine is a thermal machine consisting of an explicit energy storage system, heat baths, and a working body, which alternatively couples to subsystems through discrete strokes --- energy-conserving two-body quantum operations. Within this paradigm, we present a general framework of quantum thermodynamics, where a work extraction process is fundamentally limited by a flow of non-passive energy (ergotropy), while energy dissipation is expressed through a flow of passive energy. It turns out that small dimensionality of the working body and a restriction only to two-body operations make the engine fundamentally irreversible. Our main result is finding the optimal efficiency and work production per cycle within the whole class of irreversible minimal-coupling engines composed of three strokes and with the two-level working body, where we take into account all possible quantum correlations between the working body and the battery. One of the key new tools is the introduced ``control-marginal state" --- one which acts only on a working body Hilbert space, but encapsulates all features regarding work extraction of the total working body-battery system. In addition, we propose a generalization of the many-stroke engine, and we analyze efficiency vs extracted work trade-offs, as well as work fluctuations after many cycles of the running of the engine.

► BibTeX data

@article{Lobejko2020thermodynamicsof,
  doi = {10.22331/q-2020-12-23-375},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2020-12-23-375},
  title = {Thermodynamics of {M}inimal {C}oupling {Q}uantum {H}eat {E}ngines},
  author = {{\L{}}obejko, Marcin and Mazurek, Pawe{\l{}} and Horodecki, Micha{\l{}}},
  journal = {{Quantum}},
  issn = {2521-327X},
  publisher = {{Verein zur F{\"{o}}rderung des Open Access Publizierens in den Quantenwissenschaften}},
  volume = {4},
  pages = {375},
  month = dec,
  year = {2020}
}

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