Quantum-Enhanced Heat Engine Based on Superabsorption.

Phys Rev Lett

Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8571, Japan.

Published: May 2022

We propose a quantum-enhanced heat engine with entanglement. The key feature of our scheme is superabsorption, which facilitates enhanced energy absorption by entangled qubits. Whereas a conventional engine with N separable qubits provides power with a scaling of P=Θ(N), our engine uses superabsorption to provide power with a quantum scaling of P=Θ(N^{2}). This quantum heat engine also exhibits a scaling advantage over classical ones composed of N-particle Langevin systems. Our work elucidates the quantum properties allowing for the enhancement of performance.

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