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General theory for thermal and nonthermal quantum linear engines
Milton Aguilar, Juan Pablo Paz
We present the exact theory of quantum engines whose working medium is a network of driven oscillators performing an arbitrary cyclic process while coupled to thermal and nontherma…
Time-extensive classical and quantum correlations in thermal machines
Milton Aguilar, Juan Pablo Paz
We study intraenvironmental classical and quantum correlations in a thermal machine, which is modeled as a driven quantum system coupled with thermal reservoirs. We compute the mut…
Entanglement generation in quantum thermal machines
Milton Aguilar, Nahuel Freitas, Juan Pablo Paz
We show that in a linear quantum machine, a driven quantum system that evolves while coupled with thermal reservoirs, entanglement between the reservoir modes is unavoidably genera…
Cooling to absolute zero: The unattainability principle
Nahuel Freitas, Rodrigo Gallego, Lluís Masanes +1
The unattainability principle (UP) is an operational formulation of the third law of thermodynamics stating the impossibility to bring a system to its ground state in finite time.…
State dependent motional squeezing of a trapped ion: new method and applications
Martín Drechsler, María Belén Farías Nahuel Freitas, Christian Tomás Schmiegelow +1
We show that the motion of a cold trapped ion can be squeezed by modulating the intensity of a phase-stable optical lattice placed inside the trap. As this method is reversible and…
How much can we cool a quantum oscillator? A useful analogy to understand laser cooling as a thermodynamical process
Nahuel Freitas, Juan Pablo Paz
We analyze the lowest achievable temperature for a mechanical oscillator (representing, for example, the motion of a single trapped ion) which is coupled with a driven quantum refr…