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A supercharged photonic quantum heat engine

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A photonic quantum heat engine based on superradiance — many-atom quantum coherence — is shown to deliver enhanced operation, with an efficiency no longer bounded by the Carnot limit.

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Fig. 1: Photonic quantum engines.

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  1. Institute for Quantum Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA

    Moochan Kim, Marlan Scully & Anatoly Svidzinsky

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Kim, M., Scully, M. & Svidzinsky, A. A supercharged photonic quantum heat engine. Nat. Photon. 16, 669–670 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-022-01076-x

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