Dynamical Casimir effect and minimal temperature in quantum thermodynamics
arXiv:1412.4819 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.91.020502
Abstract
We study the fundamental limitations of cooling to absolute zero for a qubit, interacting with a single mode of the electromagnetic field. Our results show that the dynamical Casimir effect, which is unavoidable in any finite-time thermodynamic cycle, forbids the attainability of the absolute zero of temperature, even in the limit of an infinite number of cycles.
5 pages, 4 figures
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