Invasiveness of non-equilibrium quantum thermometry

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Main Authors: Albarelli, Francesco, Paris, Matteo G. A., Vacchini, Bassano, Smirne, Andrea
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Published: 2023
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author Albarelli, Francesco
Paris, Matteo G. A.
Vacchini, Bassano
Smirne, Andrea
author_facet Albarelli, Francesco
Paris, Matteo G. A.
Vacchini, Bassano
Smirne, Andrea
contents One of the main advantages expected from using quantum probes as thermometers is non invasiveness, i.e., a negligible perturbation to the thermal sample. However, invasiveness is rarely investigated explicitly. Here, focusing on a pure-dephasing spin probe in a bosonic sample, we show that there is a non-trivial relation between the information on the temperature gained by a quantum probe and the heat absorbed by the sample due to the interaction. We show that optimizing over the probing time, i.e. considering a time-optimal probing scheme, also has the benefit of limiting the heat absorbed by the sample in each shot of the experiment. For such time-optimal protocols, we show that it is advantageous to have very strong probe-sample coupling, since in this regime the accuracy increases linearly with the coupling strength, while the amount of heat per shot saturates to a finite value. Since in pure-dephasing models the absorbed heat corresponds to the external work needed to couple and decouple the probe and the sample, our results also represent a first step towards the analysis of the thermodynamic and energetic cost of quantum thermometry.
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spellingShingle Invasiveness of non-equilibrium quantum thermometry
Albarelli, Francesco
Paris, Matteo G. A.
Vacchini, Bassano
Smirne, Andrea
Quantum Physics
One of the main advantages expected from using quantum probes as thermometers is non invasiveness, i.e., a negligible perturbation to the thermal sample. However, invasiveness is rarely investigated explicitly. Here, focusing on a pure-dephasing spin probe in a bosonic sample, we show that there is a non-trivial relation between the information on the temperature gained by a quantum probe and the heat absorbed by the sample due to the interaction. We show that optimizing over the probing time, i.e. considering a time-optimal probing scheme, also has the benefit of limiting the heat absorbed by the sample in each shot of the experiment. For such time-optimal protocols, we show that it is advantageous to have very strong probe-sample coupling, since in this regime the accuracy increases linearly with the coupling strength, while the amount of heat per shot saturates to a finite value. Since in pure-dephasing models the absorbed heat corresponds to the external work needed to couple and decouple the probe and the sample, our results also represent a first step towards the analysis of the thermodynamic and energetic cost of quantum thermometry.
title Invasiveness of non-equilibrium quantum thermometry
topic Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.03436