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Quantum Physics

Title: Noise induced coherent ergotropy of a quantum heat engine

Abstract: We theoretically identify the noise-induced coherent contribution to the ergotropy of a four-level quantum heat engine coupled to a unimodal quantum cavity. We utilize a protocol where the passive state's quasiprobabilities can be analytically identified from the population-coherence coupled reduced density matrix. The reduced density matrix elements are evaluated using a microscopic quantum master equation formalism. Multiple ergotropies within the same coherence interval, each characterized by a positive and pronounced coherent contribution, are observed. These ergotropies are a result of population inversion as well as quasiprobability-population inversion, controllable through the coherence measure parameters. The optimal flux and power of the engine are found to be at moderate values of ergotropy with increasing values of noise-induced coherence. The optimal power at different coherences is found to possess a constant ergotropy.
Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures. Suggestions on references are welcome
Subjects: Quantum Physics (quant-ph); Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.05994 [quant-ph]
  (or arXiv:2404.05994v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

Submission history

From: Himangshu Prabal Goswami [view email]
[v1] Tue, 9 Apr 2024 03:57:04 GMT (3641kb,D)

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