107 research outputs found
Measurement Based Quantum Heat Engine with Coupled Working Medium
We consider measurement based single temperature quantum heat engine without
feedback control, introduced recently by Yi, Talkner and Kim [Phys. Rev. E 96,
022108 (2017)]. Taking the working medium of the engine to be a one-dimensional
Heisenberg model of two spins, we calculate the efficiency of the engine
undergoing a cyclic process. Starting with two spin-1/2 particles, we
investigate the scenario of higher spins also. We show that, for this model of
coupled working medium, efficiency can be higher than that of an uncoupled one.
However, the relationship between the coupling constant and the efficiency of
the engine is rather involved. We find that in the higher spin scenario
efficiency can sometimes be negative (this means work has to be done to run the
engine cycle) for certain range of coupling constants, in contrast to the
aforesaid work of Yi, Talkner and Kim, where they showed that the extracted
work is always positive in the absence of coupling. We provide arguments for
this negative efficiency in higher spin scenarios. Interestingly, this happens
only in the asymmetric scenarios, where the two spins are different. Given
these facts, for judiciously chosen conditions, an engine with coupled working
medium gives advantage for the efficiency over the uncoupled one.Comment: 15 pages, 17 figures, published versio
Minimal state-dependent proof of measurement contextuality for a qubit
We show that three unsharp binary qubit measurements are enough to violate a
generalized noncontextuality inequality, the LSW inequality, in a
state-dependent manner. For the case of trine spin axes we calculate the
optimal quantum violation of this inequality. Besides, we show that unsharp
qubit measurements do not allow a state-independent violation of this
inequality. We thus provide a minimal state-dependent proof of measurement
contextuality requiring one qubit and three unsharp measurements. Our result
rules out generalized noncontextual models of these measurements which were
previously conjectured to exist. More importantly, this class of generalized
noncontextual models includes the traditional Kochen-Specker (KS) noncontextual
models as a proper subset, so our result rules out a larger class of models
than those ruled out by a violation of the corresponding KS-inequality in this
scenario.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figure
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