Stochastic Floquet quantum heat engines and stochastic efficiencies

Abstract

Based on the notion of quantum trajectory, we present a stochastic theoretical framework for Floquet quantum heat engines. As an application, the large deviation functions of two types of stochastic efficiencies for a two-level Floquet quantum heat engine are investigated. We find that the statistics of one efficiency agree well with the predictions of the universal theory of efficiency fluctuations developed by Verley et al. [Phys. Rev. E {\bf 90}, 052145 (2014)], whereas the statistics of the other efficiency do not. The reason for this discrepancy is attributed to the lack of fluctuation theorems for the latter type of efficiency.

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