Enhancing Otto-mobile Efficiency via Addition of a Quantum Carnot Cycle

摘要

It was shown recently that one can improve the efficiency of the Otto cycle by taking advantage of the internal degrees of freedom of an ideal gas [M. O. Scully, "The Quantum Afterburner", Phys. Rev. Lett., to be published]. Here we discuss the limiting improvement of the efficiency by considering reversible cycles with both internal and external degrees of freedom.