Quantum Otto heat engines on XYZ spin working medium with DM and KSEA interactions: Operating modes and efficiency at maximal work output

TL;DR

This paper investigates quantum Otto heat engines using a two-spin-1/2 XYZ system with DM and KSEA interactions, analyzing their operation modes and efficiency, including cases surpassing the Novikov limit.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of the operation modes and efficiency of quantum Otto engines with complex spin interactions, revealing new local minima in work output.

Findings

Efficiencies can exceed the Novikov value under certain conditions.

Multiple operation modes are classified based on system parameters.

New local minima points of total work are identified and explained.

Abstract

The magnetic Otto thermal machine based on a two-spin-1/2 XYZ working fluid in the presence of an inhomogeneous magnetic field and antisymmetric Dzyaloshinsky--Moriya (DM) and symmetric Kaplan--Shekhtman--Entin-Wohlman--Aharony (KSEA) interactions is considered. Its possible modes of operation are found and classified. The efficiencies of engines at maximum power are estimated for various choices of model parameters. There are cases when these efficiencies exceed the Novikov value. New additional points of local minima of the total work are revealed and the mechanism of their occurrence is analyzed.