A two-qubit engine fueled by entangling operations and local measurements

Abstract

We introduce a two-qubit engine that is powered by entangling operations and projective local quantum measurements. Energy is extracted from the detuned qubits coherently exchanging a single excitation. This engine, which uses the information and back-action of the measurement, is generalized to an N-qubit chain. We show that by gradually increasing the energy splitting along the chain, the initial low energy of the first qubit can be up-converted deterministically to an arbitrarily high energy at the last qubit by successive neighbor swap operations and local measurements. Modeling the local measurement as the entanglement of a qubit with a meter, we identify the measurement fuel as the energetic cost to erase correlations between the qubits.

arXiv comment5 pages, 4 figures

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