Speeding Up Classical and Quantum Adiabatic Processes: Implications for Work Functions and Heat Engine Designs

Understand

Adiabatic processes are important for studying the dynamics of a time-dependent system.

• Conventionally, the adiabatic processes can only be achieved by varying the system slowly.
• We speed up both classical and quantum adiabatic processes by adding control protocols.
• In classical systems, we work out the control protocols by analyzing the classical adiabatic approximation.