Quantum information remote carnot engines and voltage transformers

A physical system out of thermal equilibrium is a resource for obtaining useful work when a heat bath at some temperature is available. Information Heat Engines are the devices which generalize the Szilard cylinders and make use of the celebrated Maxwell demons to this end. In this paper, we conside...

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Autores: Díaz de la Cruz, Jose, Martín-Delgado Alcántara, Miguel Ángel
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
Repositorio:Docta Complutense
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/13238
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/13238
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:53
Exorcize maxwells demon
Erasure
Principle
Entropy
Quantum information heat engines
Quantum thermodynamics
Entanglement entropy
Quantum cryptography
Física (Física)
22 Física
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Sumario:A physical system out of thermal equilibrium is a resource for obtaining useful work when a heat bath at some temperature is available. Information Heat Engines are the devices which generalize the Szilard cylinders and make use of the celebrated Maxwell demons to this end. In this paper, we consider a thermo-chemical reservoir of electrons which can be exchanged for entropy and work. Qubits are used as messengers between electron reservoirs to implement long-range voltage transformers with neither electrical nor magnetic interactions between the primary and secondary circuits. When they are at different temperatures, the transformers work according to Carnot cycles. A generalization is carried out to consider an electrical network where quantum techniques can furnish additional security.