2 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2026
Autonomous Thermal Switching Outperforms the Frozen Optimum with Vanishing Correlations
Siyi Deng, Longxing Xu, Zhuolin Ye +2
Can autonomous thermal switching outperform the best frozen barrier allocation while keeping system--auxiliary correlations arbitrarily small? We establish this relaxation advantag…
quant-ph2026
Optimal phase control of a measurement-assisted quantum refrigerator
Jinkai Liu, Xian He, Jizhou He +1
A tilted nonselective measurement can close the upper transition of a three-level quantum refrigerator, but it also generates coherence that feeds back on the populations and suppr…