Quantum heat engines and nonequilibrium temperature
| dc.contributor.author | Johal, R.S. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-30T12:26:00Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2013-04-30T12:26:00Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | A pair of two-level systems initially prepared in different thermal states and coupled to an external reversible work source do not in general reach a common temperature at the end of a unitary work extraction process. We define an effective temperature for the final nonequilibrium but passive state of the bipartite quantum system and analyze its properties. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 80 (4), art. no. 041119 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://pre.aps.org/abstract/PRE/v80/i4/e041119 | en_US |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | American Physical Society | en_US |
| dc.subject | Bipartite quantum systems | en_US |
| dc.subject | Effective temperature | en_US |
| dc.subject | Non equilibrium | en_US |
| dc.subject | Nonequilibrium temperatures | en_US |
| dc.subject | Quantum heat engines | en_US |
| dc.subject | Reversible work | en_US |
| dc.title | Quantum heat engines and nonequilibrium temperature | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |