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Title: More bang for your buck: Super-adiabatic quantum engines

Journal Article · · Scientific Reports
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06208· OSTI ID:1624737
 [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
  2. The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste (Italy)
  3. Queen's Univ., Belfast, Northern Ireland (United Kingdom). Centre for Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. School of Mathematics and Physics

The practical untenability of the quasi-static assumption makes any realistic engine intrinsically irreversible and its operating time finite, thus implying friction effects at short cycle times. An important technological goal is thus the design of maximally efficient engines working at the maximum possible power. We show that, by utilising shortcuts to adiabaticity in a quantum engine cycle, one can engineer a thermodynamic cycle working at finite power and zero friction. Our findings are illustrated using a harmonic oscillator undergoing a quantum Otto cycle.

Research Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-06NA25396
OSTI ID:
1624737
Journal Information:
Scientific Reports, Vol. 4, Issue 1; ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing GroupCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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