Monitored quantum unital Otto heat engines: Fluctuations of the released heat and entropy production
Abdelkader El Makouri,
Abdallah Slaoui and
Rachid Ahl Laamara
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2025, vol. 669, issue C
Abstract:
Recently, we have considered a single-qubit quantum Otto cycle based on arbitrary (non-unitary) unital channels as a heat source. We showed similarly to some works in literature that the ratio of the fluctuations of work (W) and heat absorbed (QM) is lower-and-upper bounded. In this paper, we drive this line of research further and consider the fluctuations of the stochastic heat exchanged (denoted by QC′) with the cold bath. In general, there is another stochastic quantity, which we denote by QC, that gives the same average as QC′− but not higher cumulants. While QC′ is defined through the two-point measurement scheme, i.e., by measuring the energy of the working medium in all four strokes, QC follows from imposing the first of thermodynamics at the stochastic level. Our work has two important results: (i) first, we prove that the measurement of the working medium during three strokes is sufficient to construct the distribution of QC′ (ii) and that the cumulants of the stochastic entropy production denoted by Σ can be inferred from the cumulants of QC.
Keywords: Relative fluctuations of W; QM, QC and Q′C; Entropy production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2025.130591
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