Quantum Analog of Carnot Engine

2017/10/28 by Chung-Yang Wang, Wang, Chung-Yang
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Control and Stability of Dynamical Systems #FOS: Physical sciences #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Quantum Physics (quant-ph) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1710.10435

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Abstract

In order to build a quantum analog of traditional Carnot engine, a common choice is replacing the two thermodynamic adiabatic processes with two quantum mechanical adiabatic processes. In general, such quantum Carnot engine has six strokes. We analyze the efficiency of such six-stroke quantum Carnot engine in a perturbative way.

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