Unruh quantum Otto heat engine with level degeneracy

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETB.2020.135201MaRDI QIDQ2188500zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hao Xu, Man-Hong Yung

Publication date 11 June 2020

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

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

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

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quantum equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B10)

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 $nightarrowinfty$.

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