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

Abstract

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.

Authors:
 [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
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
OSTI Identifier:
1624737
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-06NA25396
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 4; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS; Quantum mechanics; Thermodynamics

Citation Formats

Campo, A. del, Goold, J., and Paternostro, M. More bang for your buck: Super-adiabatic quantum engines. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1038/srep06208.
Campo, A. del, Goold, J., & Paternostro, M. More bang for your buck: Super-adiabatic quantum engines. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06208
Campo, A. del, Goold, J., and Paternostro, M. Thu . "More bang for your buck: Super-adiabatic quantum engines". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep06208. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1624737.
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