Quantum thermodynamics
The 20th century witnessed the birth and rapid development of quantum mechanics. As it matured, it deeply revamped other branches of physics, e.g., electrodynamics, solid state physics, and even cosmology. Recently, a new interest has awakened – how quantum mechanics can rewrite the rules of thermodynamics, a branch of physics primarily concerned with exchange of heat and work during transformations of a system. This fusion, termed quantum thermodynamics, aims to search for a “quantum advantage” in thermodynamics, in some sense akin to the quantum advantage intensely sought after in information science. Specifically, it is concerned with how purely quantum mechanical resources – superposition, entanglement, and measurement – can be utilized in a thermodynamic machine operating at the quantum level. We are exploring quantum thermodynamics using circuit quantum electrodynamics because it offers an excellent platform for control and manipulation of quantum systems.
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Precision is not limited by the second law of thermodynamics
Florian Meier, Yuri Minoguchi, Simon Sundelin, Tony J. G. Apollaro, Paul Erker, Simone Gasparinetti, Marcus Huber, Precision is not limited by the second law of thermodynamics, arXiv:2407.07948
Quantum refrigeration powered by noise in a superconducting circuit
Simon Sundelin, Mohammed Ali Aamir, Vyom Manish Kulkarni, Claudia Castillo-Moreno, Simone Gasparinetti, Quantum refrigeration powered by noise in a superconducting circuit, arXiv:2403.03373
Thermally driven quantum refrigerator autonomously resets superconducting qubit
Mohammed Ali Aamir, Paul Jamet Suria, José Antonio Marín Guzmán, Claudia Castillo-Moreno, Jeffrey M. Epstein, Nicole Yunger Halpern, and Simone Gasparinetti, Thermally driven quantum refrigerator autonomously resets superconducting qubit, arXiv:2305.16710
Engineering symmetry-selective couplings of a superconducting artificial molecule to microwave waveguides
Mohammed Ali Aamir, Claudia Castillo Moreno, Simon Sundelin, Janka Biznárová, Marco Scigliuzzo, Kowshik Erappaji Patel, Amr Osman, D. P. Lozano, Simone Gasparinetti, Engineering symmetry-selective couplings of a superconducting artificial molecule to microwave waveguides. Physical Review Letters 129, 123604 (2022). (Editors’ Suggestion)
Nonequilibrium heat transport and work with a single artificial atom coupled to a waveguide: emission without external driving
Yong Lu, Neill Lambert, Anton Frisk Kockum, Ken Funo, Andreas Bengtsson, Simone Gasparinetti, Franco Nori, and Per Delsing, Nonequilibrium heat transport and work with a single artificial atom coupled to a waveguide: emission without external driving. PRX Quantum 3, 020305 (2022).
Primary Thermometry of Propagating Microwaves in the Quantum Regime
M. Scigliuzzo, A. Bengtsson, J.-C. Besse, A. Wallraff, P. Delsing, and S. Gasparinetti, Primary Thermometry of Propagating Microwaves in the Quantum Regime, Phys. Rev. X 10, 041054 (2020).
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