讲座题目：Engineering Quantum Thermal Machines
主讲人：Prof. Adolfo del Campo（University of Massachusetts）
主持人：武海斌教授
讲座时间：2017.01.20上午10点
讲座地点：中北校区理科大楼A814室
报告摘要：
Quantum thermodynamics has the potential to impact energy science. Yet, the identification of scenarios characterized by a quantum supremacy, unmatched by the classical counterpart, remains challenging. In this talk I shall review recent advances in the engineering and optimizationof quantum thermal machines. I will show that nonadiabatic many-particle effects can give rise to quantum supremacy in finite-time thermodynamics.
Further, quantum heat engines can be operated at maximum efficiency and arbitrarily high output power by making useof shortcuts to adiabaticity. A thermodynamic cost of these shortcuts will be elucidated by analyzing the full work distribution function and introducing a novel kind of work-energy uncertainty relation. I shall close by discussing the identification of scenarios with a quantum-enhanced performanceinthermal machines run over many cycles.