Efficiency large deviation function of quantum heat engines
arXiv:2008.00778 · doi:10.1088/1367-2630/ac09fe
Abstract
The efficiency of small thermal machines is typically a fluctuating quantity. We here study the efficiency large deviation function of two exemplary quantum heat engines, the harmonic oscillator and the two-level Otto cycles. While the efficiency statistics follows the 'universal' theory of Verley et al. [Nature Commun. 5, 4721 (2014)] for nonadiabatic driving, we find that the latter framework does not apply in the adiabatic regime. We relate this unusual property to the perfect anticorrelation between work output and heat input that generically occurs in the broad class of scale-invariant adiabatic quantum Otto heat engines and suppresses thermal as well as quantum fluctuations.
8 pages, 5 figures
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