Imperial College London
Professor Florian Mintert

ProfessorFlorianMintert

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Physics

Professor of Physics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 0974f.mintert

 
 
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Location

 

Blackett LaboratorySouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Holmes:2020:10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210601,
author = {Holmes, Z and Anders, J and Mintert, F},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210601},
journal = {Physical Review Letters},
pages = {210601--1--210601--6},
title = {Enhanced energy transfer to an optomechanical piston from indistinguishable photons},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210601},
volume = {124},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - Thought experiments involving gases and pistons, such as Maxwell’s demon and Gibbs’ mixing, are central to our understanding of thermodynamics. Here we present a quantum thermodynamic thought experiment in which the energy transfer from two photonic gases to a piston membrane grows quadratically with the number of photons for indistinguishable gases, while linearly for distinguishable gases. This signature of Bosonic bunching may be observed in optomechanical experiments, highlighting the potential of these systems for the realization of thermodynamic thought experiments in the quantum realm.
AU  - Holmes,Z
AU  - Anders,J
AU  - Mintert,F
DO  - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210601
EP  - 1
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 0031-9007
SP  - 210601
TI  - Enhanced energy transfer to an optomechanical piston from indistinguishable photons
T2  - Physical Review Letters
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210601
UR  - https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.124.210601
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/79092
VL  - 124
ER  -
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