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Quantum-Classical Transition of Photon-Carnot Engine Induced by Quantum Decoherence

H. T. Quan, P. Zhang, C. P. Sun

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0508008

Abstract

We study the physical implementation of the Photon Carnot engine (PCE) based on the cavity QED system [M. Scully et al, Science, 299, 862 (2003)]. Here, we analyze two decoherence mechanisms for the more practical systems of PCE, the dissipation of photon field and the pure dephasing of the input atoms. As a result we find that (I) the PCE can work well to some extent even in the existence of the cavity loss (photon dissipation); and (II) the short-time atomic dephasing, which can destroy the PCE, is a fatal problem to be overcome.

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