2024/03/14 by H. S. Mani, Hamdi Mani, N. Ramadas +1 · 1 citation
Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates #Quantum many-body systems
paper · doi:10.1142/s0217732324500202
openalex publication_date 2024/03/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Recent advances in applying thermodynamic ideas to quantum systems have raised the novel prospect of using non-thermal, non-classical sources of energy, of purely quantum origin, like quantum statistics, to extract mechanical work in macroscopic quantum systems like Bose–Einstein condensates. On the other hand, thermodynamic ideas have also been applied to small systems like single molecules and quantum dots. In this paper, we study the quantum thermodynamics of small systems of anyons, with specific emphasis on the quantum Otto engine which uses, as its working medium, just one or two anyons. Formulae are derived for the efficiency of the Otto engine as a function of the statistics parameter.