The Unruh quantum Otto engine

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2018)168zbMATH Open1387.83038arXiv1710.03092MaRDI QIDQ1748848FDOQ1748848

Authors: Enrique Arias, Thiago R. De Oliveira, M. S. Sarandy 

Publication date: 14 May 2018

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We introduce a quantum heat engine performing an Otto cycle by using the thermal properties of the quantum vacuum. Since Hawking and Unruh, it has been established that the vacuum space, either near a black hole or for an accelerated observer, behaves as a bath of thermal radiation. In this work, we present a fully quantum Otto cycle, which relies on the Unruh effect for a single quantum bit (qubit) in contact with quantum vacuum fluctuations. By using the notions of quantum thermodynamics and perturbation theory we obtain that the quantum vacuum can exchange heat and produce work on the qubit. Moreover, we obtain the efficiency and derive the conditions to have both a thermodynamic and a kinematic cycle in terms of the initial populations of the excited state, which define a range of allowed accelerations for the Unruh engine.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.03092

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zbMATH Keywords

black holesthermal field theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classical and relativistic thermodynamics (80A10) Thermal quantum field theory (81T28) Methods of quantum field theory in general relativity and gravitational theory (83C47) Black holes (83C57)

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