Dynamically Emergent Quantum Thermodynamics: Non-Markovian Otto Cycle
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| author | Picatoste, Irene Ada Colla, Alessandra Breuer, Heinz-Peter |
| author_facet | Picatoste, Irene Ada Colla, Alessandra Breuer, Heinz-Peter |
| contents | Employing a recently developed approach to dynamically emergent quantum thermodynamics, we revisit the thermodynamic behavior of the quantum Otto cycle with a focus on memory effects and strong system-bath couplings. Our investigation is based on an exact treatment of non-Markovianity by means of an exact quantum master equation, modelling the dynamics through the Fano-Anderson model featuring a peaked environmental spectral density. By comparing the results to the standard Markovian case, we find that non-Markovian baths can induce work transfer to the system, and identify specific parameter regions which lead to enhanced work output and efficiency of the cycle. In particular, we demonstrate that these improvements arise when the cycle operates in a frequency interval which contains the peak of the spectral density. This can be understood from an analysis of the renormalized frequencies emerging through the system-baths couplings. |
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| spellingShingle | Dynamically Emergent Quantum Thermodynamics: Non-Markovian Otto Cycle Picatoste, Irene Ada Colla, Alessandra Breuer, Heinz-Peter Quantum Physics Employing a recently developed approach to dynamically emergent quantum thermodynamics, we revisit the thermodynamic behavior of the quantum Otto cycle with a focus on memory effects and strong system-bath couplings. Our investigation is based on an exact treatment of non-Markovianity by means of an exact quantum master equation, modelling the dynamics through the Fano-Anderson model featuring a peaked environmental spectral density. By comparing the results to the standard Markovian case, we find that non-Markovian baths can induce work transfer to the system, and identify specific parameter regions which lead to enhanced work output and efficiency of the cycle. In particular, we demonstrate that these improvements arise when the cycle operates in a frequency interval which contains the peak of the spectral density. This can be understood from an analysis of the renormalized frequencies emerging through the system-baths couplings. |
| title | Dynamically Emergent Quantum Thermodynamics: Non-Markovian Otto Cycle |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09462 |