Quantum Thermodynamic Cycles and Heat Engines
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Quantum Information".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2025 | Viewed by 19
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Quantum thermodynamic cycles are the quantum counterpart to the traditional power and refrigeration cycles studied by classical thermodynamics, e.g., Carnot or Otto cycles. However, the working medium of quantum cycles is a statistical ensemble of identical quantum systems. Thermal coupling with a heat bath requires the special formalism of quantum thermodynamics, which describes open quantum systems. Often, these cycles are studied under non-equilibrium conditions, thus falling under the area of finite-time quantum thermodynamics.
In the last few years, this area has received increasing attention from the scientific community due to significant advances in nano-devices, quantum optics, quantum computing, and cryogenics. All these scientific and technological areas are linked to the topic of quantum cycles. Among the many aspects considered by the numerous publications within this field, there are the different models of the quantum systems making up the working medium, different models of the heat baths and their coupling with the system, and different kinds of cycles.
This Special Issue will provide a forum to present novel works analyzing different aspects of quantum cycles. We are especially interested in studies that consider this topic from an optimization, computational, or theoretical perspective, although we welcome experimental studies.
Dr. Andrea Roberto Insinga
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- open quantum systems
- quantum cycles
- quantum thermodynamics
- finite-time thermodynamics
- non-equilibrium thermodynamics
- cryogenic cycles
- photon bath
- quantum master equation
- redfield equation
- lindblad equation
