Quantum harvester enables energy transfer without randomness transfer or dissipation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08054v1
• Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 10:12:38 GMT
• Title: Quantum harvester enables energy transfer without randomness transfer or dissipation
• Authors: Fei Meng, Junhao Xu, Xiangjing Liu, Oscar Dahlsten,
• Abstract summary: Given a partly random energy source, is it possible to extract the energy without transferring randomness or accepting another thermodynamical cost? We describe scenarios and protocols where in principle energy is extracted from a field with randomness but without any randomness being transferred, and without energy dissipation.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: We consider a foundational question in energy harvesting: given a partly random energy source, is it possible to extract the energy without also transferring randomness or accepting another thermodynamical cost? We answer this in the positive, describing scenarios and protocols where in principle energy is extracted from a field with randomness but without any randomness being transferred, and without energy dissipation. Such protocols fundamentally outperform existing methods of rectification which dissipate power, or feedback demon-like protocols which transfer randomness to the feedback system. The protocols exploit the possibility of the harvesting system taking several trajectories that lead to the same final state at a given time. We explain why these protocols do not violate basic physical principles. A key example involves the experimentally well-established phenomenon of Rabi oscillations between energy levels, exploiting the multitude of rotation axes in the state space that take the lower energy state to the excited state. The quantum system is deterministically excited to the highest energy level after interacting with the source for a fixed amount of time, irrespective of the random initial phase of the external potential.

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