Extraction of Work via a Thermalization Protocol

Abstract

This extended abstract contains an outline of the work reported at the conference IQIS2018. We show that it is possible to exploit a thermalization process to extract work from a resource system $R$ to a bipartite system $S$. To do this, we propose a simple protocol in a general setting in the presence of a single bath at temperature $T$ and then examine it when $S$ is described by the quantum Rabi model at $T=0$. We find the theoretical bounds of the protocol in the general case and we show that when applied to the Rabi model it gives rise to a satisfactory extraction of work and efficiency.

arXiv comment4 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings (extended abstract) for the conference IQIS 2018, special issue of Proceedings (MDPI). Version close to the published one

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• Simple scheme for extracting work with a single bath