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Quantum lubrication: Suppression of friction in a first-principles four-stroke heat engine

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Abstract

A quantum model of a heat engine resembling the Otto cycle is employed to explore strategies to suppress frictional losses. These losses are caused by the inability of the engine's working medium to follow adiabatically the change in the Hamiltonian during the expansion and compression stages. By adding external noise to the engine frictional losses can be suppressed.

Original languageEnglish
Article number025107
JournalPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics
Volume73
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006

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