Quantum information processing provides novel methods for pumping heat and refrigerating photons. Devices that obtain and manipulate information at the quantum level can function as quantum 'Maxwell's demons' to cool systems in ways that liquid helium cannot.
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Lloyd, S. Cool computation, hot bits. Nature Photon 8, 90–91 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2014.4
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