Entropy and temperature of a quantum Carnot engine

DOI10.1098/RSPA.2001.0928MaRDI QIDQ4661579zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dorje C. Brody, Bernhard K. Meister, Carl M. Bender

Publication date 30 March 2005

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A: Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0101015

zbMATH Keywords

quantum-mechanical enginethermodynamic equations of statevon Neumann entropy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum dynamics and nonequilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82C10)

Abstract: It is possible to extract work from a quantum-mechanical system whose dynamics is governed by a time-dependent cyclic Hamiltonian. An energy bath is required to operate such a quantum engine in place of the heat bath used to run a conventional classical thermodynamic heat engine. The effect of the energy bath is to maintain the expectation value of the system Hamiltonian during an isoenergetic expansion. It is shown that the existence of such a bath leads to equilibrium quantum states that maximise the von Neumann entropy. Quantum analogues of certain thermodynamic relations are obtained that allow one to define the temperature of the energy bath.

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