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physics.optics2017★ 49 cited
Two-level masers as heat-to-work converters
A. Ghosh, D. Gelbwaser-Klimovsky, W. Niedenzu +4
Heat engines, which cyclically transform heat into work, are ubiquitous in technology. Lasers and masers, which generate a coherent electromagnetic field, may be viewed as heat eng…
quant-ph2017★ 241 cited
Quantum engine efficiency bound beyond the second law of thermodynamics
Wolfgang Niedenzu, Victor Mukherjee, Arnab Ghosh +2
According to the second law, the efficiency of cyclic heat engines is limited by the Carnot bound that is attained by engines that operate between two thermal baths under the rever…