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WORK OUTPUT AND EFFICIENCY OF A REVERSIBLE QUANTUM OTTO CYCLE
ABSTRACT
An idealized reversible Otto cycle working with a single quantum mechanical particle contained in a potential well is investigated based on the Schrödinger equation in this paper. The model of a reversible quantum Otto cycle, which consists of two reversible adiabatic and two constant-well widen branches, is established. As an example, we calculate a particularly simple case in which only two of the eigenstates of the potential well contribute to the wave-function in the well. The relationship between the optimal dimensionless work output W
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PAPER SUBMITTED: 2009-11-11
PAPER REVISED: 2009-12-12
PAPER ACCEPTED: 2010-02-18
DOI REFERENCE: https://doi.org/10.2298/TSCI1004879W
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