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Shujin Deng1, Aurélia Chenu2, Pengpeng Diao1
1State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, P. R. China.
Abstract:
Optimal performance of thermal machines is reached by suppressing friction. Friction in quantum thermodynamics results from fast driving schemes that generate nonadiabatic excitations. The far-from-equilibrium dynamics of quantum devices can be tailored by shortcuts to adiabaticity to suppress quantum friction. We experimentally demonstrate friction-free superadiabatic strokes with a trapped unitary Fermi gas as a working substance and establish the equivalence between the superadiabatic work and its adiabatic value.
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