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most citedThermodynamic consistency of the optomechanical master equation

59 citations · 305 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

quant-ph2026

Anti-Zeno boost in an autonomous quantized-piston thermal machine

M. Tahir Naseem

Anti-Zeno enhancement of quantum heat machines has been established for working fluids driven by an external classical field, but whether the same quantum advantage survives when a…

quant-ph2026

Engineering a Quantum Thermal Diode with Floquet Driving

Aqsa Rehman, M. Tahir Naseem, Adam Zaman Chaudhry

Controlling heat flow in small quantum systems is a central goal of quantum thermodynamics and nanoscale transport. A key challenge is to achieve strong thermal rectification witho…

quant-ph2025

Reservoir-Engineered Mechanical Cat States with a Driven Qubit

M. Tahir Naseem

Macroscopic quantum superpositions, such as mechanical Schrödinger cat states, are central to emerging quantum technologies in sensing and bosonic error-correcting codes. We propos…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Optimal strategies for transient and equilibrium quantum thermometry using Gaussian and non-Gaussian probes

Asghar Ullah, M. Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We study temperature estimation using quantum probes, including single-mode initial states and two-mode states generated via stimulated parametric down-conversion in a nonlinear cr…

quant-ph2025

Quantum thermal rectification via state-dependent two-photon dissipation

M. Tahir Naseem

Controlling heat flow at the quantum level is essential for the development of next-generation thermal devices. We investigate thermal rectification in a quantum harmonic oscillato…

quant-ph2023

Quantum thermometry with an optomechanical system

Asghar Ullah, Ali Pedram, M. Tahir Naseem +1

We present a quantum thermometry method utilizing an optomechanical system composed of an optical field coupled to a mechanical resonator for measuring the unknown temperature of a…

cond-mat.stat-mech2023

Signature of topology via heat transfer analysis in the Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model

Vipul Upadhyay, M. Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu +1

In this work, we explore the potential of thermodynamics as a tool for identifying the topological phase transition. Specifically, we focus on a one-dimensional Su-Schrieffer-Heege…

physics.optics2023★ 4 cited

Macroscopic distant magnon-mode entanglement via a squeezed drive

Kamran Ullah, Muhammad Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

The generation of robust entanglement in quantum system arrays is a crucial aspect of the realization of efficient quantum information processing. Recently, the field of quantum ma…

quant-ph2023★ 8 cited

Mixing thermal coherent states for precision and range enhancement in quantum thermometry

Asghar Ullah, M. Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

The unavoidable interaction between thermal environments and quantum systems typically leads to the degradation of quantum coherence, which can be fought against by reservoir engin…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

Enantiomer detection via Quantum Otto cycle

Mohsen Izadyari, M. Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıouglu

Enantiomers are chiral molecules that exist in right-handed and left-handed conformations. Optical techniques of enantiomers detection are widely employed to discriminate between l…

quant-ph2022★ 37 cited

Low-temperature quantum thermometry boosted by coherence generation

Asghar Ullah, M. Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

The precise measurement of low temperatures is significant for both the fundamental understanding of physical processes and technological applications. In this work, we present a m…

quant-ph2022★ 9 cited

Engineering entanglement between resonators by hot environment

M. Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

Autonomous quantum thermal machines do not require an external coherent drive or work input to perform the desired tasks, which makes them a promising candidate for thermal managem…

quant-ph2021

Antibunching via cooling by heating

M. Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We investigate statistics of the photon (phonon) field undergoing linear and nonlinear damping processes. An effective two-photon (phonon) nonlinear "cooling by heating" process is…

cond-mat.stat-mech2021★ 1 cited

Heat rectification by two qubits coupled with Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction

Vipul Upadhyay, M. Tahir Naseem, Rahul Marathe +1

We investigate heat rectification in a two-qubit system coupled via the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya (DM) interaction. We derive analytical expressions for heat currents and thermal recti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 7 cited

All-Optical Control of Magnetization in Quantum-Confined Ultrathin Magnetic Metals

Saeedeh Mokarian Zanjani, Muhammad Tahir Naseem, Özgür Müstecaplıoğlu +1

All-optical control dynamics of magnetization in sub-10 nm metallic thin films are investigated, as these films with quantum confinement undergo unique interactions with femtosecon…

quant-ph2020★ 31 cited

Ground-state cooling of mechanical resonators by quantum reservoir engineering

M. Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We propose a scheme to cool down a mechanical resonator to its quantum ground-state, which is interacting with a working fluid via an optomechanical-like coupling. As opposed to st…

quant-ph2020★ 37 cited

Minimal quantum heat manager boosted by bath spectral filtering

M. Tahir Naseem, Avijit Misra, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu +1

We reveal the potentially important role of a general mechanism that has hitherto not been invoked in quantum heat management schemes, namely, spectral filtering of the coupling be…

quant-ph2020★ 30 cited

Two-body quantum absorption refrigerators with optomechanical-like interactions

M. Tahir Naseem, Avijit Misra, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

Quantum absorption refrigerator (QAR) autonomously extracts heat from a cold bath and dumps into a hot bath by exploiting the input heat from a higher temperature reservoir. QARs t…

quant-ph2019★ 20 cited

Quantum heat engine with a quadratically coupled optomechanical system

M. Tahir Naseem, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We propose a quantum heat engine based on a quadratically coupled optomechanical system. The optical component of the system is driven periodically with an incoherent thermal drive…

quant-ph2018★ 54 cited

Quantum Optical Two-Atom Thermal Diode

Cahit Kargi, M. Tahir Naseem, Tomáš Opatrný +2

We put forward a quantum-optical model for a thermal diode based on heat transfer between two thermal baths through a pair of interacting qubits. We find that if the qubits are cou…

quant-ph2018★ 59 cited

Thermodynamic consistency of the optomechanical master equation

Muhammad T. Naseem, André Xuereb, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu

We investigate the thermodynamic consistency of the master equation description of heat transport through an optomechanical system attached to two heat baths, one optical and one m…