  We study the application of a counter-diabatic driving (CD) technique to
enhance the thermodynamic efficiency and power of a quantum Otto refrigerator
based on a superconducting qubit coupled to two resonant circuits. Although the
CD technique is originally designed to counteract non-adiabatic coherent
excitations in isolated systems, we find that it also works effectively in the
open system dynamics, improving the coherence-induced losses of efficiency and
power. We compare the CD dynamics with its classical counterpart, and find a
deviation that arises because the CD is designed to follow the energy
eigenbasis of the original Hamiltonian, but the heat baths thermalize the
system in a different basis. We also discuss possible experimental realizations
of our model.
