Mukherjee Victor, Divakaran Uma
Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Berhampur, Berhampur 760010, India.
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Palakkad, 678557, India.
J Phys Condens Matter. 2021 Aug 27;33(45). doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/ac1b60.
Thermodynamics of quantum systems and quantum thermal machines are rapidly developing fields, which have already delivered several promising results, as well as raised many intriguing questions. Many-body quantum machines present new opportunities stemming from many-body effects. At the same time, they pose new challenges related to many-body physics. In this short review we discuss some of the recent developments on technologies based on many-body quantum systems. We mainly focus on many-body effects in quantum thermal machines. We also briefly address the role played by many-body systems in the development of quantum batteries and quantum probes.
量子系统热力学和量子热机是快速发展的领域,已经取得了一些有前景的成果,同时也引发了许多有趣的问题。多体量子机器带来了源于多体效应的新机遇。与此同时,它们也带来了与多体物理相关的新挑战。在这篇简短的综述中,我们讨论了基于多体量子系统的技术的一些最新进展。我们主要关注量子热机中的多体效应。我们还简要阐述了多体系统在量子电池和量子探测器发展中所起的作用。