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most citedEfficiency of a quantum Otto heat engine operating under a reservoir at effective negative temperatures

152 citations · 228 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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quant-ph2026

Coherence-Preserving Fluctuation Diagnostics for an Engineered Population-Inverted Qubit Otto Engine

Gabriella G. Damas, Norton G. de Almeida, Gao Xianlong +1

Finite-time quantum thermal machines require diagnostics beyond average work and efficiency, because microscopic engines operate in regimes where fluctuations, incomplete thermaliz…

quant-ph2025

Probing the Limits of Dispersive Quantum Thermometry with a Nonlinear Mach-Zehnder-Based Quantum Simulator

Daniel Y. Akamatsu, Lucas Ferreira R. de Moura, Gabriella G. Damas +3

Temperature estimation, known as thermometry, is a critical sensing task for physical systems operating in the quantum regime. Indeed, thermal fluctuations can significantly degrad…

quant-ph2025★ 3 cited

Quantum Features of the Thermal Two-Qubit Quantum Rabi Model in Ultra- and Deep-Strong Regimes

Ciro Micheletti Diniz, Gabriella G. Damas, Norton G. de Almeida +2

Quantum correlations and non-classical states are indispensable resources for advancing quantum technologies, and their resilience at finite temperatures is crucial for practical e…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

A quantum Otto-type heat engine with fixed frequency

Richard Q. Matos, Rogerio J. de Assis, Norton G. de Almeida

In this work, we analyze an Otto-type cycle operating with a working substance composed of a quantum harmonic oscillator (QHO). Unlike other studies in which the work extraction is…

quant-ph2021

Quantum Otto Thermal Machines Powered by Kerr Nonlinearity

Udson C. Mendes, José S. Sales, Norton G. de Almeida

We study the effect of Kerr nonlinearity in quantum thermal machines having a Kerr-nonlinear oscillator as working substance and operating under the ideal quantum Otto cycle. We fi…

quant-ph2020★ 45 cited

Universal two-level quantum Otto machine under a squeezed reservoir

Rogério J. de Assis, José S. Sales, Jefferson A. R. da Cunha +1

We study an Otto heat machine whose working substance is a single two-level system interacting with a cold thermal reservoir and with a squeezed hot thermal reservoir. By adjusting…

quant-ph2018★ 152 cited

Efficiency of a quantum Otto heat engine operating under a reservoir at effective negative temperatures

Rogério J. de Assis, Taysa M. de Mendonça, Celso J. Villas-Boas +4

Abstract We perform an experiment in which a quantum heat engine works under two reservoirs, one at a positive spin temperature and the other at an effective negative spin temperat…

quant-ph2018★ 6 cited

Feasible platform to study negative temperatures

R. J. de Assis, C. J. Villas-Boas, N. G. de Almeida

We afford an experimentally feasible platform to study Boltzmann negative temperatures. Our proposal takes advantage of well-known techniques of engineering Hamiltonian to achieve…

quant-ph2018★ 16 cited

Quantum work for sudden quenches in Gaussian random Hamiltonians

Eric G. Arrais, Diego A. Wisniacki, Lucas C. Céleri +3

In the context of nonequilibrium quantum thermodynamics, variables like work behave stochastically. A particular definition of the work probability density function (pdf) for coher…