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Performance limits of multilevel and multipartite quantum heat machines
Wolfgang Niedenzu, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Gershon Kurizki
We present the general theory of a quantum heat machine based on an -level system (working medium) whose excited levels are degenerate, a prerequisite for steady-state int…
On the operation of machines powered by quantum non-thermal baths
Wolfgang Niedenzu, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Abraham G. Kofman +1
Diverse models of engines energised by quantum-coherent, hence non-thermal, baths allow the engine efficiency to transgress the standard thermodynamic Carnot bound. These transgres…
Non-equilibrium quantum heat machines
Rober Alicki, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky
Standard heat machines (engine, heat pump, refrigerator) are composed of a system ("working fluid") coupled to at least two equilibrium baths at different temperatures and periodic…
Strongly coupled quantum heat machines
David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Quantum heat machines (QHMs) models generally assume a weak coupling to the baths. This supposition is grounded in the separability principle between systems and allows the derivat…
Thermodynamics of quantum systems under dynamical control
D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Wolfgang Niedenzu, Gershon Kurizki
In this review the debated rapport between thermodynamics and quantum mechanics is addressed in the framework of the theory of periodically-driven/controlled quantum-thermodynamic…
Solar cell as self-oscillating heat engine
Robert Alicki, David Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, Krzysztof Szczygielski
Solar cells are engines converting energy supplied by the photon flux into work. All known types of macroscopic engines and turbines are also self-oscillating systems which yield a…