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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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4d5a09ff65b148ffbb6d5e85b61269622022-12-22T03:18:48ZengMDPI AGEntropy1099-43002019-01-0121212710.3390/e21020127e21020127Quantum Information Remote Carnot Engines and Voltage TransformersJose Diazdelacruz0Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado1Department of Applied Physics and Materials Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainDepartment of Theoretical Physics, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SpainA 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.https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/21/2/127quantum information heat enginesquantum thermodynamicsentanglement entropyquantum cryptography |
| spellingShingle | Jose Diazdelacruz Miguel Angel Martin-Delgado Quantum Information Remote Carnot Engines and Voltage Transformers Entropy quantum information heat engines quantum thermodynamics entanglement entropy quantum cryptography |
| title | Quantum Information Remote Carnot Engines and Voltage Transformers |
| title_full | Quantum Information Remote Carnot Engines and Voltage Transformers |
| title_fullStr | Quantum Information Remote Carnot Engines and Voltage Transformers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Quantum Information Remote Carnot Engines and Voltage Transformers |
| title_short | Quantum Information Remote Carnot Engines and Voltage Transformers |
| title_sort | quantum information remote carnot engines and voltage transformers |
| topic | quantum information heat engines quantum thermodynamics entanglement entropy quantum cryptography |
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