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Marina Cuzminschi1,2, Alexei Zubarev3,4, Stefan-Marian Iordache5
1Department of Theoretical Physics, "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, 07125 Magurele, Ilfov, Romania.
Abstract:
We investigate the influence of the seed of measurement on the performance of a Szilard engine based on a two-mode Gaussian state evolving in a noisy channel. Quantum work is extracted by performing a positive operator-valued measurement (POVM) on one of the two modes, after which this mode reaches equilibrium with the environment. As the seed of measurement, we use a single-mode squeezed thermal state. We employ the Markovian Kossakowski-Lindblad master equation to determine the evolution in time of the considered open system and the quantum work is defined based on the Rényi entropy of order 2. We show that the extracted quantum work and information-work efficiency strongly depend on the characteristic parameters of the system (frequency, average thermal photons number, and squeezing), the noisy channel (temperature and squeezing of the bath), and the seed of measurement (average thermal photons number and strength of the measurement).
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