Finite-time quantum Otto engine with a squeezed thermal bath: Role of quantum coherence and squeezing in the performance and fluctuations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.13290v1
• Date: Thu, 26 May 2022 12:07:51 GMT
• Title: Finite-time quantum Otto engine with a squeezed thermal bath: Role of quantum coherence and squeezing in the performance and fluctuations
• Authors: Yang Xiao, Dehua Liu, Jizhou He, Wu-Ming Liu, and Jianhui Wang
• Abstract summary: We consider a finite-time quantum Otto heat engine that consists of two isochoric (thermal-contact) process. We derive the analytical expressions for the thermodynamic quantities of the two-level heat engine. Our results clarify the role of coherence and squeezing in the performance and fluctuations in the quantum Otto engines.
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• Abstract: We consider a finite-time quantum Otto heat engine that consists of two isochoric (thermal-contact) process, where the system is alternatively coupled to a hot squeezed and a cold thermal reservoir, and two unitary driven strokes, where the system is isolated from these two baths and its von Neumann entropy keeps constant. Both quantum inner friction and coherence are generated along the driven stroke and coherence cannot be fully erased after the finite-time hot isochore. Using full counting statistics, we present the probability distribution functions of heat injection and total work per cycle, which are dependent on the time duration along each process. With these, we derive the analytical expressions for the thermodynamic quantities of the two-level heat engine, such as total work, thermodynamic efficiency, entropy production, and work fluctuations, in which effects of coherence, squeezing, inner friction and finite-time heat exchange are included. We then numerically determine the thermodynamic quantities and the fluctuations using the parameters employed in the experimental implementation. Our results clarify the role of coherence and squeezing in the performance and fluctuations in the quantum Otto engines.

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