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cond-mat.stat-mech2019
{\it Colloquium:} Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics at Strong Coupling: Quantum and Classical
Peter Talkner, Peter Hänggi
The statistical mechanical description of small systems staying in thermal equilibrium with an environment can be achieved by means of the Hamiltonian of mean force. In contrast to…
quant-ph2019
Quantum Statistical Enhancement of the Collective Performance of Multiple Bosonic Engines
Gentaro Watanabe, B. Prasanna Venkatesh, Peter Talkner +2
We consider an ensemble of indistinguishable quantum machines and show that quantum statistical effects can give rise to a genuine quantum enhancement of the collective thermodynam…