Adiabatic speedup and quantum heat current in an open system

Adiabatic evolution has important applications in quantum information processing. In that context, the system has to be maintained in one of its instantaneous eigenstates. Normally the adiabaticity of the system will be ruined by its surrounding environment. Quantum control has been used widely to speed up the adiabatic process and thus reduces the effect of the environment. In this letter, we investigate the adiabatic speedup and the associated quantum heat current with and without pulse control. The system is immersed in a non-Markovian and finite-temperature heat bath. Our calculation results show that the effective adiabatic speedup can be obtained in a weak system-bath coupling and low-temperature heat bath. Specifically, non-Markovianity from the environment can be beneficial to the enhancement of the adiabatic fidelity. Furthermore, we calculate the quantum heat current between the system and bath in the process of adiabatic speedup. We find that the adiabatic fidelity decreases with increasing heat current. Our investigation paves the way for the design of quantum heat engines and quantum devices.