Unruh quantum Otto heat engine with level degeneracy

We investigate the Unruh quantum Otto heat engine with level degeneracy. An effectively two-level system, where the ground state is non-degenerate and the excited state is n-fold degenerate, is acting as the working substance, and the vacuum of massless free scalar field serves as a thermal bath via...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hao Xu, Man-Hong Yung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-02-01
Series:Physics Letters B
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0370269320300058