Measurement-based Formulation of Quantum Heat Engine

Abstract

There exist two formulations for quantum heat engine that models an energy transfer between two microscopic systems. One is semi-classical scenario, and the other is full quantum scenario. The former is formulated as a unitary evolution for the internal system, and is adopted by the community of statistical mechanics. In the latter, the whole process is formulated as unitary, and is adopted by the community of quantum information. This paper proposes a model for quantum heat engine that transfers energy from a collection of microscopic systems to a macroscopic system like a fuel cell. In such a situation, the amount of extracted work is visible for a human. For this purpose, we formulate quantum heat engine as the measurement process whose measurement outcome is the amount of extracted work. Under this model, we derive a suitable energy conservation law and propose a more concrete submodel. Then, we derive a novel trade-off relation between the measurability of the amount of work extraction and the coherence of the internal system, which examines the application of the semi-classical scenario to a heat engine transferring an energy from a collection of microscopic systems to a macroscopic system.

The part of finite-size effect has been removed, and has been moved to arXiv:1405.6457v2 because the calculation of this part has been essentially done in the first version of arXiv:1405.6457

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