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Quantum Critical Engine at Finite Temperatures: Free Fermionic Model

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Authors:

(1) Revathy B S, Raman Research Institute, Bengaluru, 560080, Karnataka, India and Corresponding author;

(2) Victor Mukherjee, Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Berhampur, Berhampur, 760010, Odisha, India;

(3) Uma Divakaran, Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Palakkad, Palakkad, 678623, Kerala, India.

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Abstract and 1 Introduction

2 Free fermionic model

3 Many body quantum Otto cycle

4 Universal scalings in work output

5 Transverse Ising model as working medium

6 Conclusion and References

2 Free fermionic model

Let us consider a free fermionic model described by the Hamiltonian



With each momentum mode being independent and non-interacting, we can write the density matrix of the system as



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