Unruh quantum Otto heat engine with level degeneracy

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135201zbMATH Open1435.82002arXiv1906.07956OpenAlexW2949608998WikidataQ126403970 ScholiaQ126403970MaRDI QIDQ2188500FDOQ2188500

Authors: Hao Xu, Man-Hong Yung 

Publication date: 11 June 2020

Published in: Physics Letters B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We investigate the Unruh quantum Otto heat engine with level degeneracy. An effectively two level system, where the ground state is non-degenerate and the excited state is $n$-fold degenerate, is acting as the working substance, and the vacuum of massless free scalar field serves as a thermal bath via the Unruh effect. We calculate the heat and work at each step of the Unruh quantum Otto cycle and study the features of the heat engine. The efficiency of the heat engine depends only on the excited energy values of the two level system, not on its level degeneracy. However, the degeneracy acts as a kind of thermodynamic resource and helps us to extract more work than in the non-degenerate case. The extractable work has a finite upper bound, corresponding to $nightarrowinfty$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.07956

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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