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Open quantum rotors: Connecting correlations and physical currents

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  • Ricardo Puebla, CSIC - Institute of Fundamental Physics, Queen's University Belfast
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  • Alberto Imparato
  • Alessio Belenchia, Queen's University Belfast, University of Tübingen
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  • Mauro Paternostro, Queen's University Belfast

We consider a finite one-dimensional chain of quantum rotors interacting with a set of thermal baths at different temperatures. When the interaction between the rotors is made chiral, such a system behaves as an autonomous thermal motor, converting heat currents into nonvanishing rotational ones. Such a dynamical response is strongly pronounced in the range of the Hamiltonian parameters for which the ground state of the system in the thermodynamic limit exhibits a quantum phase transition. Such working points are associated with large quantum coherence and multipartite quantum correlations within the state of the system. This suggests that the optimal operating regime of such a quantum autonomous motor is one of maximal quantumness.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
Artikelnummer043066
Tidsskrift Physical Review Research
Vol/bind4
Nummer4
Antal sider10
ISSN2643-1564
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StatusUdgivet - okt. 2022

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