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TT: Fachverband Tiefe Temperaturen
TT 27: Quantum Coherence and Quantum Information Systems (joint session TT/DY)
TT 27.4: Talk
Thursday, September 8, 2022, 10:15–10:30, H22
Heat transport and rectification in an ultrastrongly-coupled qubit-resonator system — •Luca Magazzu1, Milena Grifoni1, and Elisabetta Paladino2 — 1University of Regensburg — 2University of Catania
Inspired by the recent experimental developments in the field of heat transport in the quantum regime, we consider a flux qubit coupled to a superconducting resonator as a composite open quantum system. The two elements of this open quantum Rabi system interact with two heat baths held at different temperatures. At the steady state, a heat current is established which is the result of photon exchanges between the system and the baths. Due to the geometry of the setup, the coupling to the heat baths is asymmetric. In turn this entails the presence of a preferred direction for the heat current, to a degree quantified by the heat rectification.
We calculate the heat current and rectification in different coupling regimes and considering a periodic driving applied to the qubit. The rectification displays the signatures of multi-photon processes that occur when the qubit-resonator coupling enters the nonperturbative regime
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