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Floquet quantum thermal transistor

Nikhil Gupt, Srijan Bhattacharyya, Bikash Das, Subhadeep Datta, Victor Mukherjee, and Arnab Ghosh
Phys. Rev. E 106, 024110 – Published 9 August 2022
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Abstract

We apply periodic control to realize a quantum thermal transistor, which we term as the Floquet quantum thermal transistor. Periodic modulation allows us to control the heat flows and achieve large amplification factors even for fixed bath temperatures. Importantly, this transistor effect persists in the cutoff region, where traditional quantum thermal transistors operating in the absence of periodic modulation, fail to act as viable heat modulation devices.

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  • Received 18 April 2022
  • Accepted 28 June 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.106.024110

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Condensed Matter, Materials & Applied PhysicsStatistical Physics & ThermodynamicsQuantum Information, Science & Technology

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Quantum Thermal Transistor Amplifies Heat Currents

Published 9 August 2022

A three-qubit transistor design offers a way to manipulate the system’s heat flow by hitting one of the qubits with a laser.  

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Nikhil Gupt1, Srijan Bhattacharyya1,2, Bikash Das3, Subhadeep Datta3, Victor Mukherjee4,*, and Arnab Ghosh1,†

  • 1Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh 208016, India
  • 2Department of Chemistry, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA
  • 3School of Physical Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, 2A and B Raja S. C. Mullick Road, Jadavpur, Kolkata 700032, India
  • 4Department of Physical Sciences, IISER Berhampur, Berhampur 760010, India

  • *mukherjeev@iiserbpr.ac.in
  • arnab@iitk.ac.in

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Vol. 106, Iss. 2 — August 2022

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