Making statistics work: a quantum engine in the BEC-BCS crossover

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.14202v1
• Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2022 16:20:14 GMT
• Title: Making statistics work: a quantum engine in the BEC-BCS crossover
• Authors: Jennifer Koch, Keerthy Menon, Eloisa Cuestas, Sian Barbosa, Eric Lutz, Thom\'as Fogarty, Thomas Busch and Artur Widera
• Abstract summary: We realize a novel quantum many-body engine fuelled by the energy difference between fermionic and bosonic ensembles of ultracold particles. We replace the traditional heating and cooling strokes of a quantum Otto cycle by tuning the gas between a Bose-Einstein condensate of bosonic molecules and a unitary Fermi gas.
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• Abstract: Heat engines convert thermal energy into mechanical work both in the classical and quantum regimes. However, quantum theory offers genuine nonclassical forms of energy, different from heat, which so far have not been exploited in cyclic engines to produce useful work. We here experimentally realize a novel quantum many-body engine fuelled by the energy difference between fermionic and bosonic ensembles of ultracold particles that follows from the Pauli exclusion principle. We employ a harmonically trapped superfluid gas of $^6$Li atoms close to a magnetic Feshbach resonance which allows us to effectively change the quantum statistics from Bose-Einstein to Fermi-Dirac. We replace the traditional heating and cooling strokes of a quantum Otto cycle by tuning the gas between a Bose- Einstein condensate of bosonic molecules and a unitary Fermi gas (and back) through a magnetic field. The quantum nature of such a Pauli engine is revealed by contrasting it to a classical thermal engine and to a purely interaction-driven device. We obtain a work output of several $10^6$ vibrational quanta per cycle with an efficiency of up to $25\%$. Our findings establish quantum statistics as a useful thermodynamic resource for work production, shifting the paradigm of energy-conversion devices to a new class of emergent quantum engines.

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