We present an overview of recent advances in the study of energy dynamics and
mechanisms for energy conversion in qubit systems with special focus on realizations in …

Thermodynamics serves as a universal means for studying physical systems from an energy
perspective. In recent years, with the establishment of the field of stochastic and quantum …

A central task in finite-time thermodynamics is to minimize the excess or dissipated work W
diss when manipulating the state of a system immersed in a thermal bath. We consider this …

We derive geometrical bounds on the irreversibility in both quantum and classical Markovian
open systems that satisfy the detailed balance condition. Using information geometry, we …

The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (ETH) explains why nonintegrable quantum many-
body systems thermalize internally if the Hamiltonian lacks symmetries. If the Hamiltonian …

We develop a general framework to describe the thermodynamics of microscopic heat
engines driven by arbitrary periodic temperature variations and modulations of a mechanical …

We consider the optimization of a finite-time Carnot engine characterized by small
dissipations. We bound the power with a simple inequality and show that the optimal …

The pillars of quantum theory include entanglement and operators' failure to commute. The
Page curve quantifies the bipartite entanglement of a many-body system in a random pure …

Nanoscale heat engines are subject to large fluctuations which affect their precision. The
thermodynamic uncertainty relation (TUR) provides a trade-off between output power …

We consider how the energy cost of bit reset scales with the time duration of the protocol. Bit
reset necessarily takes place in finite time, where there is an extra penalty on top of the …