The Unruh quantum Otto engine

DOI10.1007/JHEP02(2018)168MaRDI QIDQ1748848zbMATH OpenFDO

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)

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

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)

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.

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