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Quantum Superposition of Two Temperatures
Arun Kumar Pati, Avijit Misra
In the classical world, temperature is a measure of how hot or cold a physical object is. We never find a physical system which can be both hot and cold at the same time. Here, we…
Nonlinear coherent heat machines and closed-system thermodynamics
Tomáš Opatrný, Šimon Bräuer, Abraham G. Kofman +5
All existing heat machines are dissipative open systems. Hence, they cannot operate fully coherently. We propose to replace this conventional thermodynamic paradigm by a completely…
Work Generation from Thermal Noise by Quantum Phase-Sensitive Observation
Tomas Opatrný, Avijit Misra, Gershon Kurizki
We put forward the concept of work extraction from thermal noise by phase-sensitive (homodyne) measurements of the noisy input followed by (outcome-dependent) unitary manipulations…