Speed-Ups to Isothermality: Enhanced Quantum Thermal Machines through Control of the System-Bath Coupling
Pancotti, N., Scandi, M., Mitchison, M., Perarnau-Llobet, M.
Abstract
Controlling the system-bath coupling in a heat engine leads to the construction of Carnot engines with greatly increased efficiency, a useful insight for the design of improved quantum-based thermal machines.
Topics & Concepts
Carnot cycleCoupling (piping)Heat engineThermalQuantumControl (management)Computer scienceControl systemPhysicsMechanical engineeringThermodynamicsQuantum mechanicsEngineeringElectrical engineeringArtificial intelligenceAdvanced Thermodynamics and Statistical MechanicsQuantum, superfluid, helium dynamicsQuantum many-body systems