Quantum mechanical Carnot engine
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Publication:4520587
DOI10.1088/0305-4470/33/24/302zbMATH Open1058.80008arXivquant-ph/0007002OpenAlexW2007966738WikidataQ56813059 ScholiaQ56813059MaRDI QIDQ4520587FDOQ4520587
Bernhard K. Meister, Dorje C. Brody, Carl M. Bender
Publication date: 13 December 2000
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: A cyclic thermodynamic heat engine runs most efficiently if it is reversible. Carnot constructed such a reversible heat engine by combining adiabatic and isothermal processes for a system containing an ideal gas. Here, we present an example of a cyclic engine based on a single quantum-mechanical particle confined to a potential well. The efficiency of this engine is shown to equal the Carnot efficiency because quantum dynamics is reversible. The quantum heat engine has a cycle consisting of adiabatic and isothermal quantum processes that are close analogues of the corresponding classical processes.
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0007002
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