TY  - JOUR
A1  - Holmes, Zoe
A1  - Anders, Janet
A1  - Mintert, Florian
T1  - Enhanced energy transfer to an optomechanical piston from indistinguishable photons
JF  - Physical review letters
N2  - Thought experiments involving gases and pistons, such as Maxwell's demon and Gibbs' mixing, are central to our understanding of thermodynamics. Here, we present a quantum thermodynamic thought experiment in which the energy transfer from two photonic gases to a piston membrane grows quadratically with the number of photons for indistinguishable gases, while it grows linearly for distinguishable gases. This signature of bosonic bunching may be observed in optomechanical experiments, highlighting the potential of these systems for the realization of thermodynamic thought experiments in the quantum realm.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210601
SN  - 0031-9007
SN  - 1079-7114
VL  - 124
IS  - 21
PB  - American Physical Society
CY  - College Park, Md.
ER  -