Spins-based Quantum Otto Engines and Majorisation

Abstract

The concept of majorisation is explored as a tool to characterize the performance of a quantum Otto engine in the quasi-static regime. For a working substance in the form of a spin of arbitrary magnitude, majorisation yields a necessary and sufficient condition for the operation of the Otto engine, provided the canonical distribution of the working medium at the hot reservoir is majorised by its canonical distribution at the cold reservoir. For the case of a spin-1/2 interacting with an arbitrary spin via isotropic Heisenberg exchange interaction, we derive sufficient criteria for positive work extraction using the majorisation relation. Finally, local thermodynamics of spins as well as an upper bound on the quantum Otto efficiency is analyzed using the majorisation relation.

arXiv commentRevTex4-2, 24 pages, six figures

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