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Rogério J de Assis1, José S Sales2, Jefferson A R da Cunha1
1Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal de Goiás, 74.001-970 Goiânia-GO, Brazil.
Abstract:
We study an Otto heat machine whose working substance is a single two-level system interacting with a cold thermal reservoir and with a squeezed hot thermal reservoir. By adjusting the squeezing or the adiabaticity parameter (the probability of transition) we show that our two-level system can function as a universal heat machine, either producing net work by consuming heat or consuming work that is used to cool or heat environments. Using our model we study the performance of these machine in the finite-time regime of the isentropic strokes, which is a regime that contributes to make them useful from a practical point of view.
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