Equivalence of Quantum Heat Machines, and Quantum-Thermodynamic Signatures

Heat machines on the atomic scale are surprisingly similar to their macroscopic classical counterparts. Theorists show that all different engine types become thermodynamically equivalent in the quantum regime.

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