Information-Assisted Carnot Engine Surpasses Standard Thermodynamic Bounds
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| author | Xiao, Yang Zeng, Qian Wang, Jin |
| author_facet | Xiao, Yang Zeng, Qian Wang, Jin |
| contents | Information can improve heat engine performance, but the underlying principles are still not so clear. Here we introduce a Carnot information machine (CIE) and obtain a quantitative relationship between the engine performance and information. We demonstrate that the presence of information changes allows the CIE to operate as a heat engine in the regime where the standard Carnot cycle is prohibited, ensures that the efficiency of the CIE is greater than or equal to the standard Carnot efficiency, and significantly enables it to achieve 100\% efficiency with positive work extraction for arbitrary two-level systems. We explicitly demonstrate these features using a spin-1/2 system and propose an experimental implementation scheme based on a trapped $^{40}\mathrm{Ca}^+$ ion. |
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| spellingShingle | Information-Assisted Carnot Engine Surpasses Standard Thermodynamic Bounds Xiao, Yang Zeng, Qian Wang, Jin Statistical Mechanics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Quantum Physics Information can improve heat engine performance, but the underlying principles are still not so clear. Here we introduce a Carnot information machine (CIE) and obtain a quantitative relationship between the engine performance and information. We demonstrate that the presence of information changes allows the CIE to operate as a heat engine in the regime where the standard Carnot cycle is prohibited, ensures that the efficiency of the CIE is greater than or equal to the standard Carnot efficiency, and significantly enables it to achieve 100\% efficiency with positive work extraction for arbitrary two-level systems. We explicitly demonstrate these features using a spin-1/2 system and propose an experimental implementation scheme based on a trapped $^{40}\mathrm{Ca}^+$ ion. |
| title | Information-Assisted Carnot Engine Surpasses Standard Thermodynamic Bounds |
| topic | Statistical Mechanics Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Quantum Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13412 |