Publications

2023
Ivan Henao, Santos, Jader P, and Uzdin, Raam . 5/2023. Scalable Evaluation Of Incoherent Infidelity In Quantum Devices . Arxiv:2305.19359.
Ivan Henao, Santos, Jader P, and Uzdin, Raam . 2023. Adaptive Quantum Error Mitigation Using Pulse-Based Inverse Evolutions. Arxiv:2303.05001.
Ivan Henao and Uzdin, Raam . 2023. Catalytic Leverage Of Correlations And Mitigation Of Dissipation In Information Erasure . Physical Review Letters, 130, Pp. 020403.
2022
Alaina M. Green, Pandit, Tanmoy , Uzdin, Raam , Linke, Norbert M. , and Alderete, C. Huerta . 12/2022. Probing The Unitarity Of Quantum Evolution Through Periodic Driving . Arxiv:2212.10771.
Tanmoy Pandit, Green, Alaina M. , Alderete, C. Huerta , Linke, Norbert M. , and Uzdin, Raam . 2022. Bounds On The Survival Probability In Periodically Driven Quantum Systems. Quantum, 6, Pp. 682. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.11685.
Daniel Pijn, Onishchenko, Oleksiy , Hilder, Janine , Poschinger, Ulrich G, Schmidt-Kaler, Ferdinand , and Uzdin, Raam . 2022. Detecting Heat Leaks With Trapped Ion Qubits. Physical Review Letters, 128, Pp. 110601.
2020
Ivan Henao, Uzdin, Raam , and Katz, Nadav . 2020. Experimental Detection Of Microscopic Environments Using Thermodynamic Observables (V2). Arxiv Preprint Arxiv:1908.08968.
2019
The ability of the internal states of a working fluid to be in a coherent superposition is one of the basic properties of a quantum heat engine. It was recently predicted that in the regime of small engine action, this ability can enable a quantum heat engine to produce more power than any equivalent classical heat engine. It was also predicted that in the same regime, the presence of such internal coherence causes different types of quantum heat engines to become thermodynamically equivalent. Here, we use an ensemble of nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond for implementing two types of quantum heat engines, and experimentally observe both effects.
Martí Perarnau-Llobet and Uzdin, Raam . 2019. Collective Operations Can Extremely Reduce Work Fluctuations. New Journal Of Physics, 21, 8, Pp. 083023.
2018
The main thread that links classical thermodynamics and the thermodynamics of small quantum systems is the celebrated Clausius inequality form of the second law. However, its application to small quantum systems suffers from two cardinal problems. (i) The Clausius inequality does not hold when the system and environment are initially correlated—a commonly encountered scenario in microscopic setups. (ii) In some other cases, the Clausius inequality does not provide any useful information (e.g., in dephasing scenarios). We address these deficiencies by developing the notion of global passivity and employing it as a tool for deriving thermodynamic inequalities on observables. For initially uncorrelated thermal environments the global passivity framework recovers the Clausius inequality. More generally, global passivity provides an extension of the Clausius inequality that holds even in the presences of strong initial system-environment correlations. Crucially, the present framework provides additional thermodynamic bounds on expectation values. To illustrate the role of the additional bounds, we use them to detect unaccounted heat leaks and weak feedback operations (“Maxwell demons”) that the Clausius inequality cannot detect. In addition, it is shown that global passivity can put practical upper and lower bounds on the buildup of system-environment correlations for dephasing interactions. Our findings are highly relevant for experiments in various systems such as ion traps, superconducting circuits, atoms in optical cavities, and more.
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Raam Uzdin, Kosloff, Ronnie , Gasparinetti, Simone , and Ozeri, Roee . 2018. Markovian Heat Sources With The Smallest Heat Capacity.. New. J. Phys. , 20, Pp. 063030. http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/aac932/meta. Abstract
Thermal Markovian dynamics is typically obtained by coupling a system to a sufficiently hot bath with a large heat capacity. Here we present a scheme for inducing Markovian dynamics using an arbitrarily small and cold heat bath. The scheme is based on injecting phase noise to the small bath. Markovianity emerges when the dephasing rate is larger than the system-bath coupling. Several unique signatures of small baths are studied. We discuss realizations in ion traps and superconducting qubits and show that it is possible to create an ideal setting where the system dynamics is indifferent to the internal bath dynamics.
2016
Collective behavior, where a set of elements interact and generate effects that are beyond the reach of the individual noninteracting elements, is always of great interest in physics. Quantum collective effects that have no classical analog are even more intriguing. In this work, we show how to construct collective quantum heat machines and explore their performance boosts with respect to regular machines. Without interactions between the machines, the individual units operate in a stochastic, nonquantum manner. The construction of the collective machine becomes possible by introducing two simple quantum operations: coherence extraction and coherence injection. Together, these operations can harvest coherence from one engine and use it to boost the performance of a slightly different engine. For weakly driven engines, we show that the collective work output scales quadratically with the number of engines rather than linearly. Eventually, the boost saturates and then becomes linear. Nevertheless, even in saturation, work is still significantly boosted compared to individual operation. To study the reversibility of the collective machine, we introduce the “entropy-pollution” measure. It is shown that there is a regime where the collective machine is N times more reversible while producing N times more work, compared to the individual operation of N units. Moreover, the collective machine can even be more reversible than the most reversible unit in the collective. This high level of reversibility becomes possible due to a special symbiotic mechanism between engine pairs.
Various engine types are thermodynamically equivalent in the quantum limit of small “engine action”. Our previous derivation of the equivalence is restricted to Markovian heat baths and to implicit classical work repository (e.g., laser light in the semi-classical approximation). In this paper, all the components, baths, batteries, and engines, are explicitly taken into account. To neatly treat non-Markovian dynamics, we use mediating particles that function as a heat exchanger. We find that, on top of the previously observed equivalence, there is a higher degree of equivalence that cannot be achieved in the Markovian regime. Next, we focus on the quality of the battery charging process. A condition for positive energy increase and zero entropy increase (work) is given. Moreover, it is shown that, in the strong coupling regime, it is possible to super-charge a battery. With super-charging, the energy of the battery is increased while its entropy is being reduced at the same time.
One of the defining properties of an open quantum system is the variation of its purity in time. We derive speed limits on the rate of purity change for systems coupled to a Markovian environment. Our speed limits are based on Liouville space where density matrices are represented as vectors. This approach leads to speed limits that are always tighter compared to their parallel speed limits in Hilbert space. These bounds depend solely on the generators of the nonunitary dynamics and are independent of the particular state of the systems. Thus, they are perfectly suited to investigate dephasing, thermalization, and decorrelation processes of arbitrary states. We show that our speed limits can be attained and are therefore tight. As an application of our results we study dephasing of interacting spins, and the speed of classical and quantum correlation erasure in multi-particle system.

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