Abstract
The optimal power performance of a first-principle quantum heat engine model shows frictionlike phenomena when the internal fluid Hamiltonian does not commute with the external control field. The model is based on interacting two-level systems where the external magnetic field serves as a control variable.
- Received 19 October 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.65.055102
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