Autonomous quantum heat engine based on non-Markovian dynamics of an optomechanical Hamiltonian
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2024-04-24
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Scientific Reports, Volume 14, issue 1, pp. 1-15
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We propose a recipe for demonstrating an autonomous quantum heat engine where the working fluid consists of a harmonic oscillator, the frequency of which is tuned by a driving mode. The working fluid is coupled two heat reservoirs each exhibiting a peaked power spectrum, a hot reservoir peaked at a higher frequency than the cold reservoir. Provided that the driving mode is initialized in a coherent state with a high enough amplitude and the parameters of the utilized optomechanical Hamiltonian and the reservoirs are appropriate, the driving mode induces an approximate Otto cycle for the working fluid and consequently its oscillation amplitude begins to increase in time. We build both an analytical and a non-Markovian quasiclassical model for this quantum heat engine and show that reasonably powerful coherent fields can be generated as the output of the quantum heat engine. This general theoretical proposal heralds the in-depth studies of quantum heat engines in the non-Markovian regime. Further, it paves the way for specific physical realizations, such as those in optomechanical systems, and for the subsequent experimental realization of an autonomous quantum heat engine.Description
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Rasola, M & Möttönen, M 2024, ' Autonomous quantum heat engine based on non-Markovian dynamics of an optomechanical Hamiltonian ', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 9448, pp. 1-15 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-59881-z