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Universal Scaling Bounds on a Quantum Heat Current
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In this Letter, we derive new bounds on a heat current flowing into a quantum L-particle system coupled with a Markovian environment. By assuming that a system Hamiltonian and a system-environment interaction Hamiltonian are extensive in L, we prove that the absolute value of the heat current scales at most as & UTheta;(L3) in a limit of large L. Furthermore, we present an example of noninteracting particles globally coupled with a thermal bath, for which this bound is saturated in terms of scaling. However, the construction of such a system requires many-body interactions induced by the environment, which may be difficult to realize with the existing technology. To consider more feasible cases, we consider a class of the system where any nondiagonal elements of the noise operator (derived from the system-environment interaction Hamiltonian) become zero in the system energy basis, if the energy difference exceeds a certain value & UDelta;E. Then, for & UDelta;E=& UTheta;(L0), we derive another scaling bound & UTheta;(L2) on the absolute value of the heat current, and the so-called superradiance belongs to a class for which this bound is saturated. Our results are useful for evaluating the best achievable performance of quantum-enhanced thermodynamic devices, including far-reaching applications such as quantum heat engines, quantum refrigerators, and quantum batteries.
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