Enhanced energy transfer to an optomechanical piston from indistinguishable photons
- 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.
| Author details: | Zoe HolmesORCiD, Janet AndersORCiD, Florian MintertGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210601 |
| ISSN: | 0031-9007 |
| ISSN: | 1079-7114 |
| Pubmed ID: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32530653 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Physical review letters |
| Publisher: | American Physical Society |
| Place of publishing: | College Park, Md. |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2020/05/27 |
| Publication year: | 2020 |
| Release date: | 2023/10/12 |
| Volume: | 124 |
| Issue: | 21 |
| Article number: | 210601 |
| Number of pages: | 6 |
| Funding institution: | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Centre for Doctoral; Training in Controlled Quantum DynamicsUK Research & Innovation; (UKRI)Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); Engineering and Physical Sciences Research CouncilUK Research &; Innovation (UKRI)Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council; (EPSRC) [EP/M009165/1, EP/S000755/1, EP/R045577/1]; Royal SocietyRoyal; Society of LondonEuropean Commission; EPSRCUK Research & Innovation; (UKRI)Engineering & Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC); [EP/R045577/1, EP/M009165/1, EP/S000755/1] Funding Source: UKRI |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
| DDC classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 53 Physik / 530 Physik |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Green Open-Access |
