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| author | Ferreri, Alessandro Bruschi, David Edward Wilhelm, Frank K. Nori, Franco Macrì, Vincenzo |
| author_facet | Ferreri, Alessandro Bruschi, David Edward Wilhelm, Frank K. Nori, Franco Macrì, Vincenzo |
| contents | The dynamical Casimir effect is the physical phenomenon where the mechanical energy of a movable wall of a cavity confining a quantum field can be converted into quanta of the field itself. This effect has been recognized as one of the most astonishing predictions of quantum field theory. At the quantum scale, the energy conversion can also occur incoherently, namely without an physical motion of the wall. We employ quantum thermodynamics to show that this phenomenon can be employed as a tool to cool down the wall when there is a non-vanishing temperature gradient between the wall and the cavity. At the same time, the process of heat-transfer enables to share the coherence from one cavity mode, driven by a laser, to the wall, thereby forcing its coherent oscillation. Finally, we show how to employ one laser drive to cool the entire system including the case when it is composed of other subsystems. |
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| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Phonon-photon conversion as mechanism for cooling and coherence transfer Ferreri, Alessandro Bruschi, David Edward Wilhelm, Frank K. Nori, Franco Macrì, Vincenzo Quantum Physics The dynamical Casimir effect is the physical phenomenon where the mechanical energy of a movable wall of a cavity confining a quantum field can be converted into quanta of the field itself. This effect has been recognized as one of the most astonishing predictions of quantum field theory. At the quantum scale, the energy conversion can also occur incoherently, namely without an physical motion of the wall. We employ quantum thermodynamics to show that this phenomenon can be employed as a tool to cool down the wall when there is a non-vanishing temperature gradient between the wall and the cavity. At the same time, the process of heat-transfer enables to share the coherence from one cavity mode, driven by a laser, to the wall, thereby forcing its coherent oscillation. Finally, we show how to employ one laser drive to cool the entire system including the case when it is composed of other subsystems. |
| title | Phonon-photon conversion as mechanism for cooling and coherence transfer |
| topic | Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.09837 |