Maxime Debiossac
Post Doctoral Fellow, Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology
https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=8CQ93CcAAAAJ&hl=fr
“Towards quantum thermodynamics using levitated systems”
Optical levitation of nanoparticles has been recognized as a versatile experimental platform to explore macroscopic quantum experiments, force sensing and stochastic thermodynamics.
In levitated systems, the excellent spatio-temporal control over potential landscape and reservoir (bath) is in particular well suited for thermodynamics experiments at the nanoscale. As an example, I will show that we have employed continuous time-delayed feedback control to generalized the second law of thermodynamics using levitated nanoparticles [1].
Recently, ground state cooling of levitated nanoparticles has been demonstrated [2,3,4], opening new avenues for quantum thermodynamics experiments. I will illustrate those new possibilities with the design of a heat engine operating in the quantum regime.
[1] Debiossac et al, Nat. Commun. 11 (1), 1-6 (2020).
[2] Delic et al, Science 367 (6480), 892-895 (2020).
[3] Magrini et al, Nature 595, 373–377 (2021).
[4] Tebbenjohanns et al, Nature 595, 378–382 (2021).