Finite quantum systems can extract greater useful work from thermodynamic cycles using limited measurements than previously thought possible. Unlike conventional methods requiring complete system knowledge, this work demonstrates reduced entropy production, and therefore increased efficiency, when controlling a heat engine with just mean energy and observed particle distribution. This benefit diminishes as particle numbers increase towards behav…
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